Zeteo reports Republican leaders are face-palming over how badly President Donald Trump's White House is blundering the Epstein file release.
“Trumpworld is wildly unimpressed with the administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files, with many in the MAGA and GOP elite flabbergasted at how Donald Trump’s Justice Department keeps pathetically bungling its own cover-up,” Zeteo reports.
“They keep making it look like we have something to hide,” an anonymous White House official told Zeteo.
Zeteoreached out to Trump advisers, senior administration people and Republican lawmakers, as well as right-wing media figures and other Trump allies, asking them to grade how the Justice Department has handled the Epstein saga, from July to the present.
“All but one of the dozen-plus Trumpland denizens … responded with an ‘F’ or ‘F-minus.’ And one respondent was even harsher: ‘F-minus-minus.’”
This, reports Zeteo, was an unexpected score for a Justice Department that “acts as an extension of President Trump’s corrupt wishes.”
Trump loyalists complain about the way the administration fueled public suspicions that Trump did something wrong, while others lament that the administration has conducted its cover-up in a manner that "makes it look blatantly obvious that they’re engaging in a cover-up," reports Zeteo.
The administration initially failed to release the entirety of the documents by deadline, and the first batch was unlawfully redacted and incomplete. Additionally, the document dump seemed pointedly focused on using former president Bill Clinton as a distraction, which did nothing to make Trump look more innocent.
The move by the Justice Department to temporarily delete an file showing photos of Trump further fueled the perception that the administration “was being too obvious and incompetent with its cover-up," Trump advisers told Zeteo.
Starting Monday, the Justice Department finally began releasing substantially more interesting Epstein-related files, with the new tranche containing documents pertaining to potential co-conspirators investigated by the government, as well as several with “explosive claims about Trump.”
To this, the Justice Department claimed on X that: “Some of these documents contain untrue and sensationalist claims made against President Trump that were submitted to the FBI right before the 2020 election. To be clear: The claims are unfounded and false, and if they had a shred of credibility, they certainly would have been weaponized against President Trump already.”
“[That’s] like telling the whole room that you didn’t fart,” one of the senior Trump administration officials told Zeteo. “Nobody’s going to believe you.”
Read the Zeteo report at this link.