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Amid Campaign, Trump Kept Epstein Issue at Arm’s Length. His Allies Did Not

While the idea of a secret “Epstein client list” became a fixation for far-right influencers and members of Donald Trump’s base, the candidate himself rarely brought up Epstein unprompted in campaign speeches or rallies. Instead, it was Trump’s official and unofficial surrogates—many of whom now occupy top posts in his Administration—who repeatedly stoked expectations that explosive revelations were imminent, often suggesting prosecutions were coming and that thousands of pages of damning material would soon be released.

Now many in Trump’s base are accusing him of falling far short of what they expected him to do with the Epstein case, partly because of years of rhetoric from his allies that neither Trump nor his campaign did much to refute.

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Now many in Trump’s base are accusing him of falling far short of what they expected him to do with the Epstein case, partly because of years of rhetoric from his allies that neither Trump nor his campaign did much to refute. After the Justice Department and FBI announced this month that there is no incriminating “client list” and no further disclosures would be made, Trump lashed out at his own supporters who were calling on him to release the files. “My PAST supporters have bought into this ‘bull—t,’ hook, line, and sinker,” he wrote on Truth Social. “I don’t want their support anymore!”

But some of his supporters pointed out that it was Trump himself who had deployed Epstein’s alleged client list as political ammunition a decade ago, as he was laying groundwork for his first presidential run. At the conservative conference known as CPAC in February 2015, when Trump was asked for his thoughts on former President Bill Clinton, he responded: “Nice guy. Got a lot of problems coming up in my opinion with the famous island with Jeffrey Epstein. A lot of problems.”

Read more: A Timeline of the Trump-Epstein Relationship

Asked later that year by Bloomberg about Clinton and the alleged sexual abuse that took place on Epstein’s private Caribbean island, Trump said, “That island was really a cesspool. There’s no question about it. Just ask Prince Andrew. He’ll tell you about it.”

Here is a snapshot of what Trump and his top allies said about the Epstein files during the 2024 campaign season and into the early months of his second term.

https://time.com/7302995/donald-trump-jeffrey-epstein-jd-vance/?utm_source=beehiiv&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter-daily-spotlight&_bhlid=d564d4d5969a776f2b773e4105f14a086d82fbde