President Donald Trump’s critics accuse him of trying to distract Jeffrey Epstein’s archives while the administration faces a setback for greater transparency with respect to the case.
Among a recent gust of broad publications on its social media platform, Trump demanded Sunday that Washington commanders invest the name of the team’s name, claim that there is “a great cry for this.”
The then continued Several hours later, saying: “My statement on the Redskins of Washington has exploded completely, but only in a very positive way”, and threatened not to facilitate an agreement for the new football team stadium in Washington, DC, if it does not change its name.
In response to the position, Joe Walsh, a former Republican congressman who ran against Trump for president in 2020, said on social networks: “Trump is afraid of the death of Epstein’s archives.”
President Donald Trump speaks in an event for the signing of the Genius Law, a bill regulating Stablecoins, a type of cryptocurrency, in the east room of the White House, on Friday, July 18, 2025, in Washington, DC
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The announcement of the Department of Justice and the FBI in a memorandum of July 6 that they would not publish any additional file in Epstein, after the Trump administration promised to do so, has angered many of the president’s supporters. The memorandum also said that they determined that there is no “list of customers” of Epstein, which has been the subject of conspiracy theories promoted by Kash Patel and Dan Bongino del FBI before joining the Trump administration, angry even more to some of Trump’s most vowel followers.
After the Trump administration announced the launch on Monday of 230,000 files related to the murder of Martin Luther King Jr., the Reverend to Sharpton said that the measure was a “desperate attempt to distract people from the storm of fire that envelops Trump about Epstein’s archives and the public unraveling of their credibility between the Maga base.”
California Senator Adam Schiff also accused the president of trying to distract from Epstein’s fire storm. In A publication On Sunday, Trump continued his attacks against Schiff, claiming that the Democrat should go to prison for allegedly falsifying loan documents regarding his Maryland residence. Schiff said previously that Trump’s accusation is a “convenient distraction” of Epstein’s controversy.
“What is really happening here is that Donald Trump is trying to achieve political remuneration, reprisals, trying to distract his Epstein archive problem,” Schiff ” He said in a video message last week.
Among other recent publications, Trump on Monday called For an immediate end of the bail without cash and criticized the federal judge who supervises the challenge of Harvard University to the retention of thousands of federal funds of the school, calling it a “total disaster.”
He also intervened in the case involving Bryan Kohberger, who will be sentenced this week after declaring himself to assassinate four students from the Idaho University, on social networks. mail On Monday that seems to be the first time that the president had spoken publicly about the murders of 2022.
Trump also directed his attention to the Wall Street Journal, pushing back against what he called A “typically false history” published on Sunday that reported That in recent days, Treasury secretary, Scott Besent, presented his case to Trump privately why he should not try to expel the president of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell.
Trump’s criticism of the Wall Street Journal occurs days after the president filed a defamation of $ 10 billion against the newspaper, Rupert Murdoch and others in Thursday’s report on Trump’s alleged birthday message sent to Epstein in 2003, which he does not exist.
The president too replaced A video on its social media platform on Sunday that included fake images of former President Barack Obama was arrested in the Oval office and behind bars. In recent days, Trump accused Obama and other Democrats to invent and doctor of Epstein archives.
The Sawyer Hettt Democratic strategist argued That with publications such as the change of name of Washington’s commanders and Obama’s arrest video, Trump tries to “distract from Epstein’s scandal.”
Stephen A. Smith of ESPN too called Trump’s commanders comment “petty” and “evasive”, claiming in a “first shot” of ESPN on Monday that Trump tried to distract his “other topics base, including Epstein files.”
President Donald Trump leaves after signing the Genius law, a bill that regulates Stablecoins, a type of cryptocurrency, in the East of the White House, on July 18, 2025, in Washington, DC
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Trump approached Epstein’s uproar on Saturday, reiterated In its social media platform, it ordered the Department of Justice to request the release of more details on the investigation of the Rico Financial and the Sexual Criminal offender, who died for suicide in jail in 2019.
The measure follows the calls of Republicans and Democrats by transparency following the memorandum of July 6 of the Department of Justice and the FBI. Although in its publication on Saturday, Trump said that publishing the testimony of the Grand Jury in the case of Epstein can do little to quell french fries to the management of the case of his administration and write, “even if the court gave its complete and unwavering approval, nothing will be good enough for the problems and radicals of the left, the lunatic application.
The White House Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, held on Monday that Trump is being transparent with her base on the case of Epstein.
“He knows what his followers want. It is transparency, and has given them that in all accounts when it comes to everything that this administration has done,” Leavitt told journalists.
“There is no doubt outside the limits here in this White House, not only for the president, but also for me,” he added.
Beyond the management of Epstein’s case, Trump seems to have lost ground on issues that were once among their stronger attributes, including immigration.
A recent one Gallup poll It shows that Trump’s approval index on immigration is under water among American adults, and particularly among US Hispanics. Among American adults, 62% disapprove of Trump’s immigration management, according to the survey. According to Gallup, only 21% of American Hispanics approve how Trump is handling immigration problems.
In Recent surveys From the Public Affairs Research Center of Associated Press-NORC (AP-NORC), only 43% of American adults said they approved their immigration management, below 49% in March, the survey found.
In addition to immigration, Trump obtained less than 50% approval in each issue included in the survey, including the economy, government spending, taxes, trade, medical care and natural relief of disasters. In general, 58% of American adults disapprove of their work as president, found the survey.
