WASHINGTON — President Trump called for an “end” to federal inquiries about Jeffrey Epstein on Friday, saying that the Department of Justice had “done its job” even as officials and lawmakers are still investigating the government’s case against the deceased sex trafficker.
“The confused and badly failing Democrat Party did nothing about Jeffrey Epstein while he was alive except befriend him, socialize with him, travel to his Island, and take his money!” Trump erupted in a lengthy Truth Social post.
“They knew everything there was to know about Epstein, but now, years after his death, they, out of nowhere, are seeming to show such love and heartfelt concern for his victims,” the president went on.
President Trump insisted the “Department of Justice has done its job” even as its officials and US lawmakers are calling for more to be released on Jeffrey Epstein. REUTERS
Demonstrators display their support for surviving victims of Epstein during a press conference on the Epstein Files Transparency Act, in Washington, DC, on September 3, 2025. Allison Bailey/NurPhoto/Shutterstock“The Department of Justice has done its job, they have given everything requested of them. It’s time to end the Democrat Epstein Hoax, and give the Republicans credit for the great, even legendary, job that they are doing.”
The president has brushed off furious public speculation about the late pedophile — despite the DOJ reviewing old case materials and Congress launching its own probe while also weighing a discharge petition to release all federal investigative files on Epstein.
In the mid-2000s, he pleaded guilty to two sex crimes — including solicitation of a girl — and was forced to register as a sex offender as part of a non-prosecution agreement overseen by then-Miami US Attorney Alex Acosta, who later served as Trump’s labor secretary in his first administration.
A survivor of the Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell sex-trafficking scandal, Anouska De Georgiou, speaks during a press conference and rally in support of the sex offenders’ victims, on Sept. 3, 2025. ZUMAPRESS.comOnce an associate of powerful business leaders like Microsoft founder Bill Gates, politicians like former President Bill Clinton, academics such as former Harvard University President Larry Summers and many Hollywood celebrities, the disgraced financier was found dead in a Manhattan jail on Aug. 10, 2019, before heading to trial on sex trafficking charges brought the preceding month.
A House committee met with Epstein victims on Tuesday in an effort of getting more information about who could be implicated in an alleged sex trafficking ring linked to Epstein and his madam Ghislaine Maxwell, who is now serving a 20-year federal prison sentence for conspiring with him to abuse minors — some as young as 14 years old.
Their sex trafficking scheme spanned many years and took place at multiple properties in New York, Florida and even Epstein’s private island of Little St. James in the Caribbean.
In July, however, the DOJ and FBI released a report finding that there was no “client list” of influential Epstein associates who could be charged with further crimes.
The July 6 memo prompted accusations of the Trump administration being involved in a cover-up of the facts surrounding the facts of the case, prompting the president to call on Attorney General Pam Bondi to release grand jury evidence from the prosecutions of Epstein and Maxwell.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche also met with Maxwell in July, though the convicted sex criminal denied over the course of a two-day interview that well-connected associates had been blackmailed by them, likening efforts to uncover a high-powered network of “clients” to “a Salem witch trial.”
Many members of Congress are still calling for full transparency and have agitated for the DOJ to release the “Epstein Files” with appropriate redactions to protect victims.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Thursday that he didn’t believe there was enough bipartisan support to pass a discharge petition that would publish the files.
The petition — brought by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), a close ally of Trump — is still shy of the 218 members needed for it to advance to a vote on House floor.
The House Oversight Committee, which is the main panel looking into the government’s handling of the Epstein case, released a trove of more than 33,000 documents received from the DOJ on Tuesday, but few of them contained any new information not previously released by the feds or in court filings.
Epstein victims have since vowed to compile their own “client list” of those allegedly linked to Epstein and Maxwell’s sex crimes.






