U.S. President Donald Trump reacts at Rocky Mount Event Center in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, U.S., December 19, 2025. REUTERS/Jessica Koscielniak
President Donald Trump took to his Truth Social account on Friday evening to rage against the latest release of documents from the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case files — and claim the whole controversy is a fabrication by Democrats.
"Now 1,000,000 more pages on Epstein are found. DOJ is being forced to spend all of its time on this Democrat inspired Hoax," wrote Trump. "When do they say NO MORE, and work on Election Fraud etc."
Trump's "election fraud" remark may be a reference to a conspiracy theory emerging on the far right, and amplified by Trump himself earlier this week, that over 300,000 ballots in Georgia were "counted twice" — a falsehood based on a misunderstanding of new reporting about ballot tabulators.
"The Dems are the ones who worked with Epstein, not the Republicans. Release all of their names, embarrass them, and get back to helping our Country!" Trump continued. "The Radical Left doesn’t want people talking about TRUMP & REPUBLICAN SUCCESS, only a long ago dead Jeffrey Epstein - Just another Witch Hunt!!!"
Trump's move to blame Democrats for the Epstein files releases comes even though the Epstein Files Transparency Act had bipartisan sponsors, that every Republican except one voted for the bill across both the House and Senate, and that Trump himself signed the bill into law — albeit after spending months fruitlessly trying to persuade Republicans to stand down.
The release of the Epstein files, which is still ongoing despite the deadline already having passed, is causing even some hardcore Trump supporters to rethink their positions.