Donald Trump’s latest explanation on the Epstein files defies logic, according to the president’s critics.
On Tuesday afternoon, Trump told reporters that Attorney General Pam Bondi did not tell him that he was named in the files, which he alleged were “made up” by former Democratic Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden and FBI Director James Comey, whom Trump fired over the Russia investigation.
“She’s given us just a very quick briefing, and in terms of the credibility of the different things that they’ve seen. And I would say … these files were made up by Comey, they were made up by, Obama, they were made up by Obama … and we went through years of that,” the president said.
“With the Russia Russia Russia hoax, with all the different things that we had gone through, but [Bondi] is handling [the Epstein situation] very well, and it’s gonna be up to her. Whatever she thinks is credible, she should release.”
Meanwhile, Bondi avoided a question on whether she would be open to releasing credible evidence.
“I’m not going to talk about Epstein,” she said during a news conference on fentanyl.
The president’s critics claimed his explanation on Tuesday afternoon did not make sense.
“Trump got a ‘very quick briefing’ on the Epstein files but long enough to know they were ‘made up’ by Comey, Obama and Biden. Got it!” tweeted former Obama National Security Council staffer and “Pod Save America” co-host Tommy Vietor.
Minnesota Sen. Tina Smith, a Democrat, suggested Trump’s response was unhinged.
“Yeah he’s spiraling,” Smith tweeted.
Trump has been dogged by the Epstein case since Sunday, when a joint Department of Justice and FBI memo was released saying there was “no incriminating ‘client list’” and “no credible evidence” that Epstein blackmailed co-conspirators who sexually abused underaged girls provided by him, Axios first reported.
The memo stirred outrage among Trump’s most ardent supporters who trusted the president’s word during the campaign to release the files.
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