President Donald Trump has blasted Democrats for using the “Jeffrey Epstein Hoax” to try to distract Americans from their campaign of “viciously closing our Country,” through their weeks-long refusal to approve continuing resolution funding for federal employees and programs.
Democrats repeatedly have tried to smear Trump with an association with the late, convicted sex offender.
Trump knew Epstein, but they had a falling out years ago, long before many of the antics that have been ascribed to Epstein developed.
At the same time, Democrats have more or less ignored Democrat names, like Bill Clinton, whose friendship with Epstein is well documented.
In fact, one of Epstein’s victims, the late Virginia Guiffre, said in a sworn statement that she never saw Trump involved in anything inappropriate.
The Democrats’ latest barrage is the release of emails purporting to discuss Trump and Epstein.
BREAKING: Oversight Dems have received new emails from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate that raise serious questions about Donald Trump and his knowledge of Epstein’s horrific crimes.
Read them for yourself. It’s time to end this cover-up and RELEASE THE FILES. pic.twitter.com/A5XgOHj2Jq
— Oversight Dems (@OversightDems) November 12, 2025
Trump’s response was immediate.
“The Democrats are trying to bring up the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax again because they’ll do anything at all to deflect on how badly they’ve done on the Shutdown, and so many other subjects. Only a very bad, or stupid, Republican would fall into that trap. The Democrats cost our Country $1.5 Trillion Dollars with their recent antics of viciously closing our Country, while at the same time putting many at risk — and they should pay a fair price. There should be no deflections to Epstein or anything else, and any Republicans involved should be focused only on opening up our Country, and fixing the massive damage caused by the Democrats!
“In other words, the Democrats are using the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax to try and deflect from their massive failures, in particular, their most recent one — THE SHUTDOWN!” he said.
The White House response also appeared immediately:
— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) November 12, 2025
A column at the Federalist explained what is developing.
That would be “just another misleading Democrat info op.”
“For the last several months, Democrats have been trying furiously to tie Donald Trump to Jeffrey Epstein. Aside from the fact that this media campaign is obviously not organic, it’s utterly bizarre and disingenuous. Democrats simply don’t care about ties to Epstein, and never have. They only care that these allegations can be used to possibly harm Trump,” the analysis confirmed.
“For instance, the evidence tying Bill Clinton to Jeffrey Epstein is far stronger than that involving Donald Trump, and Clinton spoke in primetime at the Democratic National Convention last year and is hardly persona non grata. Similarly, LinkedIn’s billionaire founder Reid Hoffman is a Democrat megadonor who was actively involved in funding the lawfare efforts against Trump and other deeply unethical efforts to help Democrats — including overt attempts to deploy Russian disinformation tactics in Senate races. Hoffman has been to Epstein’s island and had close ties to Epstein, years after his terrible behavior was public knowledge. No one in the party felt the need to distance himself from Hoffman…”
The latest claims, in the New York Times, said, “Epstein alleged in emails that Trump knew of his conduct.”
The publication got emails from House Democrats, and they originated with Epstein’s 2008 plea deal on sex charges.
But the report noted, “In a 2016 deposition for a civil case, Ms. Giuffre was asked if she believed Mr. Trump had witnessed the sexual abuse of minors in Mr. Epstein’s home. ‘I don’t think Donald Trump participated in anything,’ she said. ‘I never saw or witnessed Donald Trump participate in those acts…”
The report noted, “It’s fairly well-established that Trump and Epstein had a big falling out years before Epstein started facing legal consequences and his predatory behavior became public. It’s also been reported that Trump kicked Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago for making moves on a teenage girl who was the daughter of a club member.”
“Democrats are essentially asking you to give Epstein credibility he does not deserve. After he was publicly outed for his behavior, who knows what Epstein’s motives might have been to smear Trump? He’s clearly thinking about ways to protect himself in these emails, and not entirely reliable,” the report explained.
“All of these obvious issues should make these emails a nonstory, especially given the sources and their demonstrable willingness to obscure exculpatory information for Trump.”
The report further noted that the Biden administration “had full access to the Epstein files for the previous four years, and despite raiding Trump’s home, launching abusive criminal investigations against anyone in his orbit, and coordinating lawfare efforts against him across multiple jurisdictions — they just didn’t bother combing through all the Epstein files and releasing all the damning information Democrats suddenly assure us is being hidden now that Trump is president again?”