Trump rants that his ‘PAST' supporters have bought into Jeffrey Epstein ‘Hoax'
In a post on Truth Social, the 47th president, who once spoke highly of the disgraced financier and his proclivity for surrounding himself with young women, resumed arguing that the furor around the so-called 'Epstein files' — a longtime fixation for many of his supporters who believe they contain damaging information on prominent Democrats and other liberal celebrities — is a creation of his political enemies rather than anything genuinely felt by his political base.
Trump compared the burgeoning scandal around his own Department of Justice to past political blow-ups around Russia's interference in the 2016 election and Hunter Biden's infamous laptop, calling the present dustup a 'SCAM' perpetrated by Democrats and labeling it as 'what we will forever call the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax.'
He also suggested that anyone still clamoring for the documents is not a true supporter of his.
'My PAST supporters have bought into this 'bullshit,' hook, line, and sinker. They haven't learned their lesson, and probably never will, even after being conned by the Lunatic Left for 8 long years,' he said 'I have had more success in 6 months than perhaps any President in our Country's history, and all these people want to talk about, with strong prodding by the Fake News and the success starved Dems, is the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax.'
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