In an explosive allegation, Elon Musk — amid a real-time escalating feud Thursday with President Trump — claimed that Trump is “in the Epstein files.”
Musk, in a post on his X social media platform, wrote, “Time to drop the really big bomb: @realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public. Have a nice day, DJT!” Musk later added, “Mark this post for the future. The truth will come out.”
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“The Epstein Files” is a reference to U.S. government documents about Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced multimillionaire financier and convicted sex offender. Epstein died in 2019 in what authorities said was an apparent suicide while he was being held in a Manhattan jail awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Musk’s allegation.
On Feb. 27, U.S. Attorney General Pamela Bondi, who was appointed by Trump, declassified and publicly released the “first phase” of files related to Epstein and “his sexual exploitation of over 250 underage girls at his homes in New York and Florida, among other locations,” according to a Department of Justice announcement. Many of the documents had already been public and they did not include a list of Epstein’s clients; Bondi had told Fox News in a Feb. 21 interview that the Epstein client list was “sitting on my desk right now.”
Before Epstein’s death, federal prosecutors had charged him with sex trafficking of girls as young as 14 years old and collecting child pornography. He pleaded not guilty but was denied bail after a judge determined he posed a significant flight risk.
Epstein’s network of friends in Hollywood, Wall Street and Washington, D.C., had included Trump and many others, including Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, Mick Jagger, Kevin Spacey and former President Bill Clinton.
According to the New York Times, Musk was “photographed at a party in 2014 with Ghislaine Maxwell, one of Epstein’s longtime associates and a former girlfriend who was convicted in 2021 on charges that she aided Epstein in his sex-trafficking activities.” Maxwell received a 20-year prison sentence in the case. In 2018, Epstein told the Times that he had been advising Musk but Musk denied that at the time.
Musk, who owns X, has more than 220 million followers on the platform (formerly called Twitter).
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