Dog barks: Trump says Epstein emails are Democrats’ “deflection” from their own “failures”

Donald Trump tried to wave away recently released emails from Jeffrey Epstein, saying that House Democrats were perpetrating a “hoax” to “deflect on how badly they’ve done.”

“The Democrats are trying to bring up the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax again,” he wrote on Truth Social. “Only a very bad, or stupid, Republican would fall into that trap… There should be no deflections to Epstein or anything else.”

In the emails released by House Democrats on Wednesday, Epstein called Trump “the dog that hasn’t barked” in a message to convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell. In another email to journalist Michael Wolff, Epstein said that Trump “knew about the girls.” The emails follow the release of an alleged letter from Trump to Epstein where the president wrote they had “certain things in common” inside a doodle of a naked woman. Trump has denied writing the letter.

“I never wrote a picture in my life. I don’t draw pictures of women,” Trump told the Wall Street Journal. “It’s not my language. It’s not my words.”

On Wednesday, Trump urged Republicans to focus their attention on restarting the federal government.

“Republicans involved should be focused only on opening up our Country, and fixing the massive damage caused by the Democrats!” he wrote.

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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said that Trump “did nothing wrong.”

“What President Trump has always said is that he was from Palm Beach, and so was Jeffrey Epstein,” she said. “He was a member at Mar-a-Lago until President Trump kicked him out, because Jeffrey Epstein was a pedophile and he was a creep.”

Watch Leavitt’s statement below via YouTube: