(Washington) Donald Trump attempted Tuesday to extinguish the growing controversy around the Epstein affair by saying that he is favorable to the publication of “credible” elements of the file, while saying not “understand” why so many of his supporters are interested.
This international case of sexual exploitation of minors has ignited a fringe of the American right for years.
But since a government decision last week, part of them have criticized the American president a lack of transparency.
“I don’t understand why Jeffrey Epstein’s case could interest someone. It’s rather boring, “Donald Trump told the press. “He has been dead for a long time (…), I do not understand what interest or fascination is. »»
If there is “something credible, I would say that it is necessary to give them” and make it public, he added.
He will return to his general prosecutor, Pam Bondi, to make public “what she considers credible,” he said earlier in the day, defending her.
No “list”
The death of Jeffrey Epstein, found hanged in his cell in New York in 2019 before being tried, fueled countless conspiracy theories that he was murdered to prevent revelations involving leading personalities.
Figures close to Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” have been carrying out a campaign for several years to request the publication of documents supposedly hidden by the government.
Photo drawn from the New York Settlement of Sexual Delinquents
Jeffrey Epstein in 2017
When Donald Trump’s return to power in January, his administration was committed to “lifting the veil” on this “repugnant” affair.
But in a joint memorandum published on July 7, the Department of Justice and the FBI dismissed the thesis of the assassination in Jeffrey Epstein prison and confirmed his suicide. They also claim to have discovered any “list” of his “clients” during an in -depth examination of the entire file.
At a press conference on Tuesday, Pam Bondi refused to give details on the possibility that new documents are made public. “Our memorandum talks about itself,” she said.
“Waining time”
This text has led to a surge of furious messages on social networks coming from “Maga” accounts. The conservative figure Tucker Carlson, former presenter of Fox News, accused the Department of Justice of wanting to “suffocate” the truth and “insult the population”.
A sign of rising pressure on Donald Trump and his government, the Republican President of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, called for the publication of the file, saying that he was favorable to “transparency”.
“We should put everything on the table and let people decide,” the tenor of the convention at the conservative Broader Benny Johnson told Congress.
On Saturday on his Truth Social platform, Donald Trump had already called on his supporters not to “waste time and energy on Jeffrey Epstein, which everyone doesn’t care”.
Rare fact for this social network acquired to the cause of the republican billionaire, the vast majority of comments under the message criticized these declarations.
