'It's a conspiracy': Ann Coulter​ slams Trump’s 'Swamp'-like Epstein cover-up

In a column in the Indiana Gazette, controversial right-wing commentator Ann Coulter says the media is conspiring with President Donald Trump in his growing desperation to avoid the scandal brewing around his involvement with the late convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

Once a staunch supporter, Coulter has criticized Trump since 2018, primarily over his failure to deliver on his promise of a border wall. Coulter has since called him a "wimp" and an "idiot". Her critiques intensified during periods when she felt he was compromising his core campaign pledges. The Epstein files are one such pledge.

Coulter points to a recent article in The Washington Post featuring a Georgia couple who said they felt duped by Trump's unfulfilled promises, and though those promises included the release of the elusive Epstein files, Coulter noted, the Post buried that with "20 solid paragraphs about tariffs" instead.

"Only readers who made it to the second half of the piece will know that their main beef with Trump is his refusal to release the Epstein files," Coulter says. "When discussing Epstein, the couple provided specific, telling details indicating that the cover-up was a genuine concern of theirs — not an idea planted by the reporter."

Coulter then quoted the Post article, which said one half of the couple interviewed "thought the Epstein files probably contained embarrassing information about rich and powerful people who were bent on keeping it private," replying with her own words: "As do we all."

"It certainly seems odd for the Post to start with tariffs, blather on and on about them, while tucking away Trump’s refusal to release the Epstein files — manifestly, the couple’s main complaint. But consider Trump’s behavior. On this one issue, he and the Post are in total, 100% agreement: Epstein? That’s old news. Let’s move on," she writes.

Coulter sarcastically says the newspaper Trump used to viciously attack may now be his favorite publication.

"Epstein, the notorious sex trafficker, may have finally brought Trump and the Post together in peace and harmony. (What’s the definition of “The Swamp,” again?)" she says.

The Wall Street Journal, Coulter notes, is also guilty of conspiring with the president, who was recently quoted in the Murdoch-owned newspaper saying, "People don’t understand that Palm Beach in the ‘90s was a different time," a quote she calls "a crackerjack explanation."

Coulter also slams the administration's messaging on the Epstein files.

"Speaking of things that have been said for years, White House spokesman Steven Cheung dismisses criticism of the Epstein debacle as 'Trump Derangement Syndrome' and 'fake news,' phrases that used to mean something other than 'NAILED US,'" she writes.

In response to FBI Director Kash Patel telling the MAGA base to move on, Coutler writes: “The conspiracy theories just aren’t true, never have been. We want to know who was funding Epstein and who participated in his sex ring. No one in Washington will tell us. That’s not a conspiracy theory — it’s a conspiracy."