Donald Trump had a full-blown meltdown Friday morning, lashing out on Truth Social in a 264-word rant about Jeffrey Epstein and Democrats. The tirade hit the internet just over an hour after the release of another dismal jobs report, a coincidence that many are calling anything but.
“The confused and badly failing Democrat Party did nothing about Jeffrey Epstein while he was alive except befriend him, socialize with him, travel to his Island, and take his money!” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “They knew everything there was to know about Epstein, but now, years after his death, they, out of nowhere, are seeming to show such love and heartfelt concern for his victims. Does anybody really believe that?”
While dozens of Epstein’s victims gathered on Capitol Hill this week—pleading for transparency and demanding Republicans sign a discharge petition to force the release of sealed files—Trump doubled down, calling the renewed push a “hoax.”
“Where were they during his very public trials, and for all of those years before his death?” he posted. “The answer is, ‘nowhere to be found.’ The now dying (after the DOJ gave thousands of pages of documents in full compliance with a very comprehensive and exacting Subpoena from Congress!) Epstein case was only brought back to life by the Radical Left Democrats because they are doing so poorly, with the lowest poll numbers in the history of the Party (16%), while the Republicans are doing so well, among the highest approval numbers the Party has ever had! The Dems don’t care about the victims, as proven by the fact that they never did before.”
Trump’s message came just hours after the Labor Department revealed another lackluster jobs report, adding more stress to an already shaky economic outlook. But instead of addressing the economy, Trump shifted focus to what he’s now labeling the “Democrat Epstein Hoax.”
That phrase—”Democrat Epstein Hoax”—is his latest entry into the growing lexicon of conspiracy-based defense mechanisms. And it didn’t stop there.
“This is merely another Democrat HOAX, just like Russia, Russia, Russia, and all of the others, in order to deflect and distract from the great success of a Republican President, and the record setting failure of the previous Administration, and the Democrat Party,” he claimed. “The Department of Justice has done its job, they have given everything requested of them. It’s time to end the Democrat Epstein Hoax, and give the Republicans credit for the great, even legendary, job that they are doing. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!”
To recap: survivors are begging for transparency, a House Republican, Rep. Thomas Massie, is trying to force a vote, and Trump is calling it all a Democrat distraction.
Read Trump’s entire rant below.
