"He said, and I agree, there are a lot of names associated with Epstein that had nothing to do with Epstein's conduct," O'Reilly said.

New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez accused the president of complicating the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files

In early July 2025, a screenshot claimed to show a real Truth Social post by U.S. President Donald Trump calling on people to forget the "Epstein files" and focus on the "beautiful young girls" who died in the Texas flash floods over the Fourth of July. Per the screenshot, Trump wrote:

The Trump administration’s shameless flip-flop on releasing the Jeffrey Epstein files is one of the laziest, most brazen cover-ups in American history. Donald Trump and his team spent the 2024 campaign promising to release what the government had on Epstein and the criminal network around him and claimed right up until this past week that they had the files and were ready to set them loose.

Multiple sources have detailed clashes between Attorney General Pam Bondi and the FBI’s number two, Dan Bongino, who is reportedly considering leaving his post over Bondi’s handling of the Epstein files.

Former White House aide Steve Bannon suggested Friday that the GOP could lose dozens of House seats in the 2026 midterms over the Trump administration’s handling of files related to disgraced

The Trump administration is facing a major internal crisis as FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino nears resignation over Attorney General Pam Bondi’s mishandling of the Epstein files. A July 7 DOJ memo debunked Bondi’s claims of a “client list” and blackmail evidence,