Critics of President Donald Trump are accusing him of seeking to distract from the Jeffrey Epstein recordsdata because the management faces pushback for extra transparency in regards to the case.
Amongst a contemporary flurry of wide-ranging posts on his social media platform, Trump on Sunday demanded that the Washington Commanders opposite the crew’s identify exchange, claiming that there’s “a large clamoring for this.”
He then adopted up a number of hours later, pronouncing, “My remark at the Washington Redskins has completely blown up, however handiest in an overly sure approach,” and threatened not to facilitate a deal for the soccer crew’s new stadium in Washington, D.C., if it does now not exchange its identify.
In accordance with the put up, Joe Walsh, a former Republican congressman who ran towards Trump for president in 2020, mentioned on social media, “Trump is scared to dying of the Epstein recordsdata.”
President Donald Trump speaks at an match for the signing of the GENIUS Act, a invoice that regulates stablecoins, a kind of cryptocurrency, within the East Room of the White Space, Friday, July 18, 2025, in Washington, D.C.
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The Division of Justice and FBI’s announcement in a July 6 memo that they wouldn’t liberate any further recordsdata on Epstein, after the Trump management previous promised to take action, has angered lots of the president’s supporters. The memo additionally mentioned they made up our minds that there’s no Epstein “shopper listing,” which has been the topic of conspiracy theories boosted through the FBI’s Kash Patel and Dan Bongino previous to becoming a member of the Trump management, additional angering a few of Trump’s maximum vocal supporters.
After the Trump management introduced the liberate Monday of 230,000 recordsdata associated with the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., Rev. Al Sharpton claimed the transfer was once a “determined try to distract other people from the firestorm engulfing Trump over the Epstein recordsdata and the general public unraveling of his credibility a few of the MAGA base.”
California Sen. Adam Schiff has additionally accused the president of seeking to distract from the Epstein firestorm. In a put up on Sunday, Trump persevered his assaults on Schiff, claiming the Democrat must pass to jail for allegedly falsifying mortgage paperwork referring to his Maryland place of abode. Schiff prior to now mentioned that Trump’s accusation is a “handy distraction” from the Epstein controversy.
“What truly is occurring this is that is Donald Trump seeking to result in political retribution, retaliation, seeking to distract from his Epstein recordsdata drawback,” Schiff mentioned in a video message final week.
Amongst different contemporary posts, Trump on Monday referred to as for an instantaneous finish to cashless bail and railed towards the federal pass judgement on overseeing Harvard College’s problem to the Trump management’s withholding billions of federal finances from the varsity, calling her a “TOTAL DISASTER.”
He additionally weighed in at the case involving Bryan Kohberger, who is about to be sentenced this week after pleading responsible to murdering 4 College of Idaho scholars, in a social media put up Monday that seems to be the primary time that the president had spoken out publicly in regards to the 2022 killings.
Trump additionally became his consideration to the Wall Boulevard Magazine, pushing again towards what he referred to as a “in most cases untruthful tale” revealed Sunday that reported that previously few days, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent privately laid out his case to Trump for why he mustn’t attempt to push out Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.
Trump’s complaint of the Wall Boulevard Magazine comes days after the president filed a $10 billion libel lawsuit towards the paper, Rupert Murdoch and others over the Thursday file about Trump’s alleged birthday message despatched to Epstein in 2003, which he says does now not exist.
The president additionally reposted a video on his social media platform on Sunday that incorporated pretend pictures of former President Barack Obama being arrested within the Oval Workplace and at the back of bars. Trump has in contemporary days baselessly accused Obama and different Democrats of creating up and doctoring Epstein recordsdata.
Democratic strategist Sawyer Hackett argued that with posts just like the Washington Commanders identify exchange and Obama arrest video, Trump is making an attempt to “distract from the Epstein scandal.”
ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith additionally referred to as Trump’s Commanders remarks “petty” and “evasive,” claiming in a printed of ESPN’s “First Take” on Monday that Trump was once making an attempt to distract his base from “different problems, together with the Epstein recordsdata.”
President Donald Trump departs after signing the GENIUS Act, a invoice that regulates stablecoins, a kind of cryptocurrency, within the East Room of the White Space, July 18, 2025, in Washington, D.C.
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Trump did deal with the Epstein uproar on Saturday, reiterating on his social media platform that he has ordered the Justice Division to request the discharge of extra main points at the probe into the rich financier and convicted intercourse culprit, who died through suicide in prison in 2019.
The transfer follows calls from each Republicans and Democrats for transparency within the wake of the DOJ and FBI’s July 6 memo. Although in his put up on Saturday, Trump claimed that liberating grand jury testimony within the Epstein case would possibly do little to quell the outspoken complaint of his management’s dealing with of the case, writing, “Even supposing the Court docket gave its complete and unwavering approval, not anything might be excellent sufficient for the troublemakers and radical left lunatics making the request. It’s going to all the time be extra, extra, extra.”
White Space press secretary Karoline Leavitt maintained on Monday that Trump is being clear along with his base in regards to the Epstein case.
“He is aware of what his supporters need. It is transparency, and he has given them that on all accounts in terms of the whole thing this management has accomplished,” Leavitt instructed newshounds.
“No query is off limits right here at this White Space, now not only for the president, however myself as neatly,” she added.
Past the dealing with of the Epstein case, Trump seems to have misplaced floor on problems that after had been amongst his most powerful attributes, together with immigration.
A up to date Gallup ballot displays Trump’s approval ranking on immigration is underwater amongst American adults, and in particular amongst Hispanic American citizens. Amongst American adults, 62% disapprove of Trump’s dealing with of immigration, in keeping with the ballot. Best 21% of Hispanic American citizens approve of the way Trump is dealing with immigration problems, in keeping with Gallup.
In contemporary polling from the Related Press-NORC Heart for Public Affairs Analysis (AP-NORC), handiest 43% of U.S. adults mentioned they authorized of his dealing with of immigration — down from the 49% in March, the ballot discovered.
Along with immigration, Trump earned not up to 50% approval on each and every factor incorporated within the ballot, together with the financial system, executive spending, taxes, business, well being care and herbal crisis aid. General, 58% of U.S. adults disapprove of his task as president, the ballot discovered.
