Trump claimed former President Obama, Hillary Clinton, and more political adversaries ‘created the Epstein files’ following Sunday’s DOJ memo.

Frustrated that prominent Democrats have not fought harder, former President Barack Obama said in a speech that his party’s leaders needed to step up.

Donald Trump on Saturday seemed to show enthusiasm for "prosecuting Obama" as the president is reeling from the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. The president took to his own social media site over the weekend,

Donald Trump doesn't want to talk about the Epstein files, but his most vocal supporters refuse to let him change the subject until they're released.

Trump has tried to distance himself from the Epstein fiasco, telling the media and his own supporters to stop talking about the convicted sex offender. In a Truth Social post on Wednesday, Trump lashed out at his own supporters and claimed that the scandal around the Epstein files was a “hoax” promoted by Democrats.

Columnist Issac J. Bailey writes that Trump’s presidency began with the birtherism conspiracy theory so it would be “political poetry” if his spreading a different conspiracy theory was the cause of his political downfall.

Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt says Democrats calls for transparency are the real Jeffrey Epstein "hoax," amid MAGA outrage over files.