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topicnews · July 17, 2025

Watch Live: White House holds news information, while Trump Maga -Dissens is opposed to Epstein files

Watch Live: White House holds news information, while Trump Maga -Dissens is opposed to Epstein files

New York (AP) President Donald Trump excludes his own followers and accuses them of being cheated by Democrats when he tries to clamp the criticism of the treatment of multi-related records by his government in the examination of the sex trade of Jeffrey Epstein, which Trump now calls “Hoax”.

The Press spokesman for the White House, Karoline Leavitt, is to hold a news information at 1 p.m. Watch the player above.

“Your new fraud will be what we will call the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax forever, and my former supporters bought in these” bulls “,” Hook, the line and the sink “, Trump wrote on Wednesday on his social side of his truth and used an expression in his post.” You have not learned your lesson and will probably never be forbidden for 8 years. “

“Let these weaklings go on and work the Democrats. Don't even think about talking about our incredible and unprecedented success because I no longer want your support!” He continued. There is no evidence that former democratic civil servants manipulated the documents or played a role in promoting conspiracies about the files that have been delighted by the members of Trump's administration for years.

Rhetoric marks a dramatic escalation for the Republican President, who has broken into questions with some of its most loyal supporters in the past, but never with such a passion. Although Trump cannot run legally for another term, he will need a strong support from a United Party to adopt his remaining legislative agenda in a closely exposed congress and an energetic basis that can be highlighted in the next year in the next year.
Dobelt documents

The schism focuses on the treatment of documents related to Epstein, which was found dead in his New York prison cell in August 2019, weeks after his arrest for sex trade. Last week, the Ministry of Justice and the FBI in a memo confirmed that Epstein had not kept a “list of customers”, which underage girls were traded. They also said that no files in connection with the investigation would be published, despite the earlier promise of Attorney General Pam Bondi, who had increased the expectations of conservative influencers and conspiracy theorists.

“It is a new administration and everything will come out of the public,” she said.

The reversal triggered anger to Trump's most loyal defense lawyer, who in particular have switched on Bondi. But Trump repeatedly said that he had confidence in his Attorney General and instead did the people who continue to press the problem.

“I don't understand what interest or what the fascination is,” he said on Tuesday, after he had asked his “boys” and in some cases unsuccessfully not to “waste time and energy on Jeffrey Epstein, someone that nobody is interested in.”

In an Oval Office appearance on Wednesday after the truth post, Trump said that he had “lost a lot of trust in certain people” when he tried to turn the side on the story.

“It was all a big joke,” he said. “The Democrats are committed and some stupid Republicans and stupid Republicans fall online.”

He complained that Bondi became “Waylaid” on her treatment of the case and gave all “credible information” about the wealthy financier. “If she finds more credible information, she will give that too,” said Trump. “What can she do more?”

He continued to complain in a prepared interview with John Solomon, which was broadcast on Wednesday evening about Real America's voice that the problem was distracted from his achievements.

“All my followers want to speak is the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax. It is incredible,” he said. “It's a shame. … I'll remember.”

While Trump has tried to accuse Democrats of making Epstein a problem, he and many personalities in his government, including the FBI director Kash Patel and his deputy Dan Bongino, have spent dark and refuted conspiracy theories such as those surrounding Epstein, including the inclusion of Qanon-deterred propaganda that surrounded the Rump It was sent to pursue the state sent the “the” the “the” by Qanon) “.

Anger is still brewing

Trump's comments were not enough to suppress those who are still demanding answers. Some of the podcasters and pro-Trump influencers who contributed to the support of Trump in the 2024 campaign on Wednesday that they were disappointed or confused by its comments.

The right-wing extremist conspiracy theorist and podcaster Alex Jones called Trump's dealings with the epstein situation “the greatest train accident that I have ever seen”.

“It is not in character that they behave like this,” he said in a video on Tuesday. “I support you, but we built the movement in which you drove. You are not the movement. You have just surfed it.”

Benny Johnson, a conservative podcaster, said on his show that he was a fan of Trump's movement, but tried to “give hard love and to speak in the name of the grassroots”.

“Maybe it wasn't really framed for the president,” said Johnson. “I don't know.”

The spokesman for the house, Mike Johnson, R-La.,

His first national security advisor, Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, asked Trump to correct the course.

“Everything we want in this phase is that a certain confidence between our federal government and the people they are supposed to serve are restored. This is all (period!),” He wrote. “With my strongest recommendation, please collect your team and find a way to come by.”

The founder of Turning Point USA, Charlie Kirk, tried to fight damage in his podcast on behalf of Trump.

“Don't take this whole truth too seriously here,” said Kirk to his audience. “I know that some people are lit. I don't think he tried to insult someone personally.”

Nevertheless, he expressed frustration about dealing with the topic by the government.

“We are now on Wednesday on Thursday. People are very, very confused, and some people are very disappointed and crazy,” said Kirk. “We have made so much progress with gene Z, and this is great vulnerability. Online, this story does not end up on Tikkok. Let us fix it and we can.”

Other Trump allies have stated at his side, which indicates that he does not need the influencers who benefited from Epstein conscientious theories to earn money and earn spectators.

“He lent them to them and voters,” Brenden Dilley, the head of a group of Meme manufacturers who lent Trump their support, wrote to X. “They don't belong to you on Wednesday.”

Broader disapproval

While those who spoke out are a border of Trump's volume online base, according to the latest surveys, they are not the only ones that are dissatisfied with the treatment of the Epstein case.

A CNN/SSRS survey showed, for example, that about half of the US -growing people are not satisfied with the amount of information that the Federal Government published on the case of Epstein. About 3 out of 10 said it didn't matter and about 2 out of 10 did not know enough to do an opinion. Almost nobody said they were satisfied with the number of information published.

With a view to 2026, some Democrats are clear that the Epstein files for voters who tend to put a premium for kitchen table problems may not be a problem with the front and in the middle, but they see this as part of a wider pattern that could hinder the Trump and the GOP.

“The voters have through something to find this idea of a Republican party who works for these large, corrupt, wealthy, famous people and do not fight for their voters,” said Katarina Flicker of the House majority Pac, the Democrats for Congress Races.

Associated Press Writer Ali Swenson, Amelia Thomson Deveaux in Washington and Bill Barrow in Atlanta contributed to this report.

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