Trump even accused the victims of colluding with Democrats.
Laura Esposito
Fri, August 15, 2025
The White House is pushing back on reports that President Donald Trump has been lashing out at Jeffrey Epstein’s sex abuse victims behind closed doors.
Sources told Rolling Stone that Trump has repeatedly criticized victims and their families as they publicly pressure him to release the so-called “Epstein files”—even as his administration ramps up efforts to bury the scandal.
Trump, who was close friends with Epstein for more than a decade, reportedly told members of his inner circle that the convicted sex offender’s accusers are just trying to make him look bad—or imply he did something wrong. At times, according to the report, Trump even accused the victims of colluding with Democrats.
“None of this is true,” a White House official said in response to a request for comment. “Just another desperate attempt by the failing Rolling Stone.”
But Rolling Stone reporter Asawin Suebsaeng, who co-authored the story with Nikki McCann Ramirez, pushed back during an appearance Thursday night on MSNBC’s All In With Chris Hayes, telling guest host Antonia Hylton that their reporting was based on sources “in and out of the Trump administration.”
“One of the things that got us onto reporting this out is that public facing, Trump is often very garrulous in how he insults his enemies, big and small, who come after him or who he feels like they’re coming after him, especially when he’s sitting as leader of the free world,” Suebsaeng said.
“But for some reason, he was conspicuously silent about these families and these individual accusers.”
He added that once they began digging, sources confirmed that Trump has been “getting really, really annoyed in recent weeks” with Epstein’s victims—and even accused them of being Democratic operatives.
“When it comes to the character and politicking of Donald Trump,” Suebsaeng added, “sadly par for the course.”
The latest controversy comes as the White House is also firing warning shots at members of their own party.
The controversy comes as the White House is also taking aim at members of its own party. On Thursday, Trump sent a thinly veiled warning to Rep. Thomas Massie, who has partnered with Rep. Ro Khanna in a bipartisan push to force a House vote on releasing documents from the Epstein investigation
On Thursday night, Trump posted screenshots on Truth Social of a polling report that found the lawmaker’s break with Trump has made him susceptible to a primary challenger.
The Daily Beast has reached out to the White House for comment.
Trump has privately pondered if Epstein accusers are just ‘Democrats’ trying to make him look bad, report claims
James Liddell
Fri, August 15, 2025
President Donald Trump has privately labeled some of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking victims as “clearly” Democrats, a new report claims.
Survivors of Epstein’s abuse have for weeks publicly criticized the Trump administration’s handling of the files linked to the disgraced financier.
Behind closed doors, the president has allegedly grown frustrated as his efforts to move past the uproar have been undermined.
Trump has allegedly questioned whether some survivors and their families are “just trying to make him look bad,” two people familiar with the conversations told Rolling Stone.
The sources said the president has also criticized those who have spoken out for “implying that he did something wrong during his time as one of Epstein’s friends and party companions,” the magazine reported.
The president allegedly dismissed some of those women making media appearances as “clearly of a ‘Democrat’ political affiliation,” the sources said. He also questioned whether some of them are coordinating with prominent liberal attorneys or groups, they added.
A White House official denied the report and dismissed its claims as false.
“None of this is true,” they said. “Just another desperate attempt by the failing Rolling Stone.”
The president has found himself at the center of a MAGA firestorm after refusing to release the so-called Epstein files, which the Republican pledged to release on the 2024 campaign trail.
After weeks of unrelenting uproar over the Justice Department’s announcement in early July that there was no evidence Epstein had a “client list,” Attorney General Pam Bondi reportedly briefed Trump in May that his name was mentioned in the files, according to The Wall Street Journal. The president is now suing the newspaper for $10 billion over the reporting.
Trump has denied any knowledge of Epstein’s crimes and has never been accused of wrongdoing in connection with the sex offender’s case. The White House says the president threw Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago for being a “creep.”
Attorney General Pam Bondi has faced flak for the DOJ’s announcement last month that there was no evidence of a ‘client list’ (Reuters)
It was compounded by reports earlier this month that Epstein’s accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence convicted on child sex trafficking charges, had been transferred to a minimum security Texas prison facility after the DOJ spoke with her last month in Florida
Sisters Annie and Maria Farmer, who accused Epstein of assaulting them and testified against Maxwell in her trial, told CNN the Trump administration’s “chaotic” approach to the case and sidelining of victims “has a real cost for survivors.”
Danielle Bensky, who accused Epstein of abusing her in 2004, told NBC News that it “feels like we’re being erased.”
California Representative Ro Khanna announced plans to bring Epstein survivors to Washington, D.C (Getty Images for Court Accountab)
Lawmakers from both sides of the political aisle have also continued to push for the whole, unredacted release of the Epstein files.
Republican rebel Thomas Massie and Democratic Representative Ro Khanna announced Monday plans to bring Epstein survivors to Washington, D.C., in a bipartisan push to get Congress to release the controversial “files” in the case.
Last month, Trump baselessly suggested that any mentions of his name in criminal case files related to the late pedophile would be there as a result of Democratic efforts to ensnare him in a “hoax.”
Laura Esposito
Fri, August 15, 2025
The White House is pushing back on reports that President Donald Trump has been lashing out at Jeffrey Epstein’s sex abuse victims behind closed doors.
Sources told Rolling Stone that Trump has repeatedly criticized victims and their families as they publicly pressure him to release the so-called “Epstein files”—even as his administration ramps up efforts to bury the scandal.
Trump, who was close friends with Epstein for more than a decade, reportedly told members of his inner circle that the convicted sex offender’s accusers are just trying to make him look bad—or imply he did something wrong. At times, according to the report, Trump even accused the victims of colluding with Democrats.
“None of this is true,” a White House official said in response to a request for comment. “Just another desperate attempt by the failing Rolling Stone.”
But Rolling Stone reporter Asawin Suebsaeng, who co-authored the story with Nikki McCann Ramirez, pushed back during an appearance Thursday night on MSNBC’s All In With Chris Hayes, telling guest host Antonia Hylton that their reporting was based on sources “in and out of the Trump administration.”
“One of the things that got us onto reporting this out is that public facing, Trump is often very garrulous in how he insults his enemies, big and small, who come after him or who he feels like they’re coming after him, especially when he’s sitting as leader of the free world,” Suebsaeng said.
“But for some reason, he was conspicuously silent about these families and these individual accusers.”
He added that once they began digging, sources confirmed that Trump has been “getting really, really annoyed in recent weeks” with Epstein’s victims—and even accused them of being Democratic operatives.
“When it comes to the character and politicking of Donald Trump,” Suebsaeng added, “sadly par for the course.”
The latest controversy comes as the White House is also firing warning shots at members of their own party.
The controversy comes as the White House is also taking aim at members of its own party. On Thursday, Trump sent a thinly veiled warning to Rep. Thomas Massie, who has partnered with Rep. Ro Khanna in a bipartisan push to force a House vote on releasing documents from the Epstein investigation
On Thursday night, Trump posted screenshots on Truth Social of a polling report that found the lawmaker’s break with Trump has made him susceptible to a primary challenger.
The Daily Beast has reached out to the White House for comment.
Trump has privately pondered if Epstein accusers are just ‘Democrats’ trying to make him look bad, report claims
James Liddell
Fri, August 15, 2025
President Donald Trump has privately labeled some of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking victims as “clearly” Democrats, a new report claims.
Survivors of Epstein’s abuse have for weeks publicly criticized the Trump administration’s handling of the files linked to the disgraced financier.
Behind closed doors, the president has allegedly grown frustrated as his efforts to move past the uproar have been undermined.
Trump has allegedly questioned whether some survivors and their families are “just trying to make him look bad,” two people familiar with the conversations told Rolling Stone.
The sources said the president has also criticized those who have spoken out for “implying that he did something wrong during his time as one of Epstein’s friends and party companions,” the magazine reported.
The president allegedly dismissed some of those women making media appearances as “clearly of a ‘Democrat’ political affiliation,” the sources said. He also questioned whether some of them are coordinating with prominent liberal attorneys or groups, they added.
A White House official denied the report and dismissed its claims as false.
“None of this is true,” they said. “Just another desperate attempt by the failing Rolling Stone.”
The president has found himself at the center of a MAGA firestorm after refusing to release the so-called Epstein files, which the Republican pledged to release on the 2024 campaign trail.
After weeks of unrelenting uproar over the Justice Department’s announcement in early July that there was no evidence Epstein had a “client list,” Attorney General Pam Bondi reportedly briefed Trump in May that his name was mentioned in the files, according to The Wall Street Journal. The president is now suing the newspaper for $10 billion over the reporting.
Trump has denied any knowledge of Epstein’s crimes and has never been accused of wrongdoing in connection with the sex offender’s case. The White House says the president threw Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago for being a “creep.”
Attorney General Pam Bondi has faced flak for the DOJ’s announcement last month that there was no evidence of a ‘client list’ (Reuters)
It was compounded by reports earlier this month that Epstein’s accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence convicted on child sex trafficking charges, had been transferred to a minimum security Texas prison facility after the DOJ spoke with her last month in Florida
Sisters Annie and Maria Farmer, who accused Epstein of assaulting them and testified against Maxwell in her trial, told CNN the Trump administration’s “chaotic” approach to the case and sidelining of victims “has a real cost for survivors.”
Danielle Bensky, who accused Epstein of abusing her in 2004, told NBC News that it “feels like we’re being erased.”
California Representative Ro Khanna announced plans to bring Epstein survivors to Washington, D.C (Getty Images for Court Accountab)
Lawmakers from both sides of the political aisle have also continued to push for the whole, unredacted release of the Epstein files.
Republican rebel Thomas Massie and Democratic Representative Ro Khanna announced Monday plans to bring Epstein survivors to Washington, D.C., in a bipartisan push to get Congress to release the controversial “files” in the case.
Last month, Trump baselessly suggested that any mentions of his name in criminal case files related to the late pedophile would be there as a result of Democratic efforts to ensnare him in a “hoax.”
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