Critics of President Donald Trump are accusing him of making an attempt to distract from the Jeffrey Epstein recordsdata because the administration faces pushback for extra transparency relating to the case.
Amongst a latest flurry of wide-ranging posts on his social media platform, Trump on Sunday demanded that the Washington Commanders reverse the workforce’s title change, claiming that there’s “a giant clamoring for this.”
He then adopted up a number of hours later, saying, “My assertion on the Washington Redskins has completely blown up, however solely in a really constructive method,” and threatened to not facilitate a deal for the soccer workforce’s new stadium in Washington, D.C., if it doesn’t change its title.
In response to the publish, Joe Walsh, a former Republican congressman who ran towards Trump for president in 2020, stated on social media, “Trump is scared to demise of the Epstein recordsdata.”
President Donald Trump speaks at an occasion for the signing of the GENIUS Act, a invoice that regulates stablecoins, a kind of cryptocurrency, within the East Room of the White Home, 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 might not launch any extra recordsdata on Epstein, after the Trump administration earlier promised to take action, has angered most of the president’s supporters. The memo additionally stated they decided that there is no such thing as a Epstein “shopper listing,” which has been the topic of conspiracy theories boosted by the FBI’s Kash Patel and Dan Bongino previous to becoming a member of the Trump administration, additional angering a few of Trump’s most vocal supporters.
After the Trump administration introduced the discharge Monday of 230,000 recordsdata associated to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., Rev. Al Sharpton claimed the transfer was a “determined try and distract folks from the firestorm engulfing Trump over the Epstein recordsdata and the general public unraveling of his credibility among the many MAGA base.”
California Sen. Adam Schiff has additionally accused the president of making an attempt to distract from the Epstein firestorm. In a publish on Sunday, Trump continued his assaults on Schiff, claiming the Democrat ought to go to jail for allegedly falsifying mortgage paperwork relating to his Maryland residence. Schiff beforehand stated that Trump’s accusation is a “handy distraction” from the Epstein controversy.
“What actually is happening right here is that is Donald Trump making an attempt to result in political retribution, retaliation, making an attempt to distract from his Epstein recordsdata downside,” Schiff stated in a video message final week.
Amongst different latest posts, Trump on Monday known as for a direct finish to cashless bail and railed towards the federal decide overseeing Harvard College’s problem to the Trump administration’s withholding billions of federal funds from the college, calling her a “TOTAL DISASTER.”
He additionally weighed in on the case involving Bryan Kohberger, who is ready to be sentenced this week after pleading responsible to murdering 4 College of Idaho college students, in a social media publish Monday that seems to be the primary time that the president had spoken out publicly concerning the 2022 killings.
Trump additionally turned his consideration to the Wall Road Journal, pushing again towards what he known as a “usually untruthful story” printed Sunday that reported that previously few days, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent privately laid out his case to Trump for why he should not attempt to push out Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.
Trump’s criticism of the Wall Road Journal comes days after the president filed a $10 billion libel lawsuit towards the paper, Rupert Murdoch and others over the Thursday report about Trump’s alleged birthday message despatched to Epstein in 2003, which he says doesn’t exist.
The president additionally reposted a video on his social media platform on Sunday that included faux footage of former President Barack Obama being arrested within the Oval Workplace and behind bars. Trump has in latest days baselessly accused Obama and different Democrats of constructing up and doctoring Epstein recordsdata.
Democratic strategist Sawyer Hackett argued that with posts just like the Washington Commanders title change and Obama arrest video, Trump is trying to “distract from the Epstein scandal.”
ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith additionally known as Trump’s Commanders remarks “petty” and “evasive,” claiming in a broadcast of ESPN’s “First Take” on Monday that Trump was trying to distract his base from “different points, 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 Home, 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 particulars on the probe into the rich financier and convicted intercourse offender, who died by suicide in jail 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 publish on Saturday, Trump claimed that releasing grand jury testimony within the Epstein case might do little to quell the outspoken criticism of his administration’s dealing with of the case, writing, “Even when the Courtroom gave its full and unwavering approval, nothing might be adequate for the troublemakers and radical left lunatics making the request. It should at all times be extra, extra, extra.”
White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt maintained on Monday that Trump is being clear together with his base concerning 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 every little thing this administration has achieved,” Leavitt instructed reporters.
“No query is off limits right here at this White Home, not only for the president, however myself as properly,” she added.
Past the dealing with of the Epstein case, Trump seems to have misplaced floor on points that after had been amongst his strongest attributes, together with immigration.
A latest Gallup ballot reveals Trump’s approval score on immigration is underwater amongst American adults, and significantly amongst Hispanic Individuals. Amongst American adults, 62% disapprove of Trump’s dealing with of immigration, in line with the ballot. Solely 21% of Hispanic Individuals approve of how Trump is dealing with immigration points, in line with Gallup.
In latest polling from the Related Press-NORC Heart for Public Affairs Analysis (AP-NORC), solely 43% of U.S. adults stated they authorized of his dealing with of immigration — down from the 49% in March, the ballot discovered.
Along with immigration, Trump earned lower than 50% approval on each challenge included within the ballot, together with the economic system, authorities spending, taxes, commerce, well being care and pure catastrophe reduction. Total, 58% of U.S. adults disapprove of his job as president, the ballot discovered.
