President Donald Trump erupted online Friday, firing off a frantic plea to Republicans as fallout from the Jeffrey Epstein scandal tightened around him yet again. The post landed with the subtlety of a klaxon, clearly aimed at shutting down fresh questions about Epstein’s connections to Trump.
“The Democrats are doing everything in their withering power to push the Epstein Hoax again, despite the DOJ releasing 50,000 pages of documents, in order to deflect from all of their bad policies and losses, especially the SHUTDOWN EMBARRASSMENT, where their party is in total disarray, and has no idea what to do,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
The rant only escalated from there.
“Some Weak Republicans have fallen into their clutches because they are soft and foolish. Epstein was a Democrat, and he is the Democrat’s problem, not the Republican’s problem! Ask Bill Clinton, Reid Hoffman, and Larry Sommers about Epstein, they know all about him, don’t waste your time with Trump. I have a Country to run!”
Trump’s sudden burst of panic didn’t come out of nowhere. On Wednesday, the House Oversight Committee dropped 20,000 pages of documents from Epstein’s estate—an avalanche of new material that has reignited scrutiny of everyone in Epstein’s orbit. And for Trump, that scrutiny appears to be getting uncomfortably specific.
One newly surfaced email suggests Trump may have “spent hours” with one of Epstein’s victims at his home. Another claims there’s a photograph of Trump performing oral sex on someone known as “Bubba”—a nickname long associated with former President Bill Clinton—and that the image is allegedly in the hands of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Outrageous? Absolutely. But it’s now part of the public record lawmakers are sifting through.
So when Trump lashed out at “some Weak Republicans,” the subtext wasn’t subtle. The jab was almost certainly aimed at Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Thomas Massie, Nancy Mace, and Lauren Boebert—hardline conservatives who signed onto a discharge petition forcing a vote on a bill that would compel the Justice Department to release all of its Epstein files. The kind of move Trump would normally applaud—except this time the spotlight is pointed directly back at him.
Instead of welcoming transparency, Trump is trying to slam the brakes. And the desperation in his posts shows just how frantic he’s become as Epstein’s shadow looms over his presidency.
The louder Trump yells “hoax,” the more it sounds like he’s worried about what’s still buried in those files.
