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   Trump, Who Campaigned On Releasing Epstein Files, Gets Roasted For Calling   
   Them A ‘Democrat Hoax’   
   A year after making campaign promises to release info on the convicted sex   
   trafficker, the president is now blaming his enemies.   
   David Moye   
      
   Sep 3, 2025, 05:16 PM EDT   
      
      
   What a difference a year makes for President Donald Trump and the so-called   
   Jeffrey Epstein files.   
      
   Last September, during the 2024 presidential campaign, Trump told podcaster   
   Lex Fridman that he’d have “no problem” releasing official files related to   
   the disgraced financier and convicted sex trafficker, including his so-called   
   “client list.”   
      
   Now, Trump seems to have changed his tune about the files and whether they   
   should be released at all, trying to raise doubts about the case on Wednesday   
   in the Oval Office.   
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   A reporter asked the president if the DOJ was trying to protect his friends   
   and donors. The question came following a convergence of Epstein-related   
   events this week: The House Oversight Committee on Tuesday publicly posted   
   the Epstein materials it had received from the Department of Justice, and on   
   Wednesday, a group of Epstein victims held a press conference outside the   
   U.S. Capitol.   
      
   Trump then declared the whole situation around the release of the Epstein   
   files (which, again, he made a campaign promise in 2024) was just “a Democrat   
   hoax that never ends.”   
      
   The president claimed that despite the thousands of pages of documents that   
   have been released, the whole scandal is “really a Democrat hoax because   
   they’re trying to get people to talk about something that’s totally   
   irrelevant to the success that we’ve had as a nation since I’ve been   
   president.”   
      
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