'Scam!' Confused Trump appears to rant about Epstein to answer 'Russiagate' question

A confused President Donald Trump railed about Democrats and Russiagate before apparently veering off course and rambling about what appeared to be the Jeffrey Epstein scandal that's filled the headlines for more than a week.

During a White House bill signing event on Wednesday, a reporter noted that FBI Director Kash Patel claimed to have found "burn bags" with documents about the investigation into Russia's meddling in the 2016 election.

"He said what?" Trump asked.

"Burn bags of Russiagate materials," the correspondent repeated.

"Oh, burn bag. I thought you said appointed a man named Burn Bag," Trump replied, before launching into a stream of consciousness rant which left many onlookers confused.

It was unclear if he was talking about Russiagate, or if he began talking about the Epstein scandal which has dogged him all week.

"Well, I want everything to be shown. You know, as long as it's fair and reasonable, I think it will be shown and it should be shown. And I think he feels that way, and I think [Attorney General Pam Bondi] feels that way."

"And if they can do that in a fair way, I think it's great. I think it's really great," he continued. "The whole thing is a scam. It's a scam set up by the Democrats, and they love talking about it."

Trump said he would like to see "bad" people exposed, but argued that the scandal was "very old news."

"You know, if they had anything, they would have done it the week before the election, because they were losing by a lot," he asserted. "If they had anything, they would have done it. They control the file. The Democrats controlled at Comey and all the sleaze bags, every one of them, that you read about all the time."

"But they control that file. So I would think that if they would have had something in the file, they would have released it about a week before the election," Trump added.

He then added, "It’s got to be stuff that really doesn’t hurt people unfairly, because you have so many people involved," suggesting to onlookers that he had really been talking about Epstein.

Watch the video below from The White House.