Trump Declares Epstein Scandal “Dead” After It Blows Up In His Face

While the rest of his White House staff is attempting to claim that the Epstein files released this week – including Trump’s crude sketch featuring his signature – are “fake,” Donald Trump decided to take a different approach. When asked by a reporter on Tuesday about the release of the files, Trump said that he would not comment on the issue because it is officially “dead.” He can declare it all he wants, but that doesn’t make it so, as Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

Great news everybody. The Epstein scandal is officially dead and over according to Donald Trump. Of course, as we all know, Monday of this week, we got a treasure trove of documents from Democrats on the H uh House Oversight Committee. And when reached for comment by an NBC News reporter on Tuesday, Donald Trump declared, quote, "I don't comment on something that's a dead issue. I gave all comments to the staff. It's a dead issue. So, in spite of all of this new overwhelming evidence against Donald Trump, it's just it's a dead issue. Now, obviously, it's not. Um, in fact, the issue is more alive than it has ever been. Donald Trump's signature is clearly seen on that risque drawing in Epstein's 50th birthday book. And we got other information that Donald Trump is just not even talking about at all. You know, the big giant check that Epstein was holding up with Donald Trump's signature on it, a check for $22,500. It was a joke, but Trump was, you know, buying a depreciated woman from Epstein. But, you know, jokingly, of course. But what's funny to me is at the White House, nobody's even talked about that, right? Like they're only trying to address the little doodle and signature, but nobody's addressed the check from the White House of Donald Trump jokingly purchasing a woman from a sex trafficker. Uh, that one actually kind of seems like that should be the bigger story. That should be the main focal point. That's what the reporter from NBC News should have asked Trump about instead of asking him about the doodle. The doodle means nothing other than the fact that Donald Trump is not going to win his lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal and Rupert Murdoch for defamation. And it's also insane that they're not immediately dropping that lawsuit because this only ends badly for Donald Trump if he continues it. But then again, he can't drop the lawsuit because then that would be an admission that the doodle is real and that would contradict everything that his administration is saying. So he put himself in the worst possible position by being such a stupid human being first and foremost. Nobody would even be talking about the Epstein files. Nobody would the the we wouldn't have them. We wouldn't have any of this had Donald Trump and his base not pushed the issue during the 2024 campaign. Because you hear all these Republicans right now like, "Well, why didn't Democrats release him for the four years they were in charge? Why are Democrats only suddenly becoming interested?" Because you idiots force the issue. We we we weren't pushing for it because at the time everybody had moved on. There were other things to focus on. You guys put it back out into the ether thinking it was going to take down the Democrats. It backfired on you. So now we're just trying to help you get what you wanted in the first place. We're being helpful and friendly because we want to make sure by God if you want those files that you get them. We don't want to see you guys go home empty-handed. You're already going home empty-handed from all the empty promises Trump made to you. We're trying to at least keep one of them because he did promise to release the files and now he's not. And we all know why. It was made painfully obvious this week. But to Trump's credit, I got to give him credit for this.