He added: “Let these weaklings continue forward and do the Democrats work, don’t even think about talking of our incredible and unprecedented success, because I don’t want their support anymore!”
Epstein has long been the focus of unfounded conspiracy theories pushed by some of Trump’s prominent supporters. They believe that the late financier — who died of an apparent suicide in his prison cell in 2019 after his indictment on federal sex trafficking charges — was actually murdered to conceal the names of powerful people on a secret “client list,” which was then covered up during the Biden administration.
Among the prominent Trump supporters pushing the Epstein conspiracy theories were Kash Patel, who is now Trump’s FBI director, and Dan Bongino, now the deputy director at the FBI.
During the 2024 campaign, Trump said he would consider releasing additional government files on Epstein. When he took office, Trump directed the Justice Department to conduct an exhaustive review of the evidence collected on Epstein.
Appearing on Fox News in February, Attorney General Pam Bondi said the Epstein client list was "sitting on my desk right now to review."
"That's been a directive by President Trump," she added.
But last week, the DOJ and FBI released a joint memo with their findings, stating that Epstein had no “client list” and concluding he “committed suicide in his cell.”
“One of our highest priorities is combating child exploitation and bringing justice to victims,” the FBI and DOJ said. “Perpetuating unfounded theories about Epstein serves neither of those ends.”
The two-page memo did little to satisfy Trump’s MAGA faithful.
At Turning Point USA’s Student Action Summit in Tampa, Fla., last weekend, young conservatives erupted in boos when the topic of the joint memo was raised.
“How many of you are satisfied with the results of the Epstein investigation?” Fox News host Laura Ingraham asked from the stage to resounding jeers.
“It’s deeper than Epstein!” Steve Bannon, former senior White House adviser, shouted while taping his podcast live at the event. Bannon said the Trump administration’s failure to release more Epstein documents is “not about just a pedophile ring and all that. … It’s about who governs us.”
“The fact that the U.S. government, the one that I voted for, refused to take my question seriously and instead said, ‘Case closed, shut up, conspiracy theorist,’ was too much for me,” former Fox News host Tucker Carlson said at the summit Friday. “And I don’t think the rest of us should be satisfied with that.”
