Trump speaks out days after Epstein email bombshells and blames ‘weak Republicans’ who fell for ‘hoax’

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President Donald Trump has broken his silence after days of dodging reporter questions over the bombshell emails in which deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein said he “knew about the girls” he and co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell were abusing and revealed that Trump spent “hours” at his home with one of his victims.

Writing on Truth Social, Trump accused Democrats in Congress of “doing everything in their withering power” to “push” what he called “the Epstein Hoax” as a distraction from “all of their bad policies and losses.”

He also hit out at “weak Republicans” who he described as having “fallen into their clutches because they are soft and foolish” and complained that the demand for his administration to release case files from the FBI investigation into the late sex offender should be directed at a group of Democratic figures who have no role in the federal government.

“Epstein was a Democrat, and he is the Democrat’s problem, not the Republican’s problem! Ask Bill Clinton, Reid Hoffman, and Larry Summers about Epstein, they know all about him, don’t waste your time with Trump. I have a Country to run!” he added.

The president’s Friday morning social media outburst comes over 48 hours since Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released the two incendiary emails from the notorious child abuser, leading the GOP majority on the panel to drop more than 20,000 other documents obtained from Epstein’s estate in an effort to flood the zone and get the initial messages off of reporters’ collective radar.

Instead, what followed was a deluge of unflattering material in which Epstein and many of the people with whom he corresponded described Trump in the most harsh of terms.

In one message, Epstein wrote that he knew “how dirty Donald is,” while in others he called Trump “f**king crazy” and “borderline insane” or compared him to a Mafia boss who’d been granted “great dangerous power” as the nation’s chief executive.

He also boasted in one message that he was “the one able to take him down.”

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