President Donald Trump has lashed out angrily at the attention being given to the Epstein files after being asked if his friends and donors were implicated in them.
As survivors of sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein descended on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, the president also described the issue as a Democratic “hoax” designed to turn people’s focus away from his presidential achievements.
“I think we should talk about the greatness of our country and the success that we are having,” he said, citing things such as his crime crackdown in D.C. and his push to end foreign wars.
“We’re having the most successful eight months of any president ever, and that’s what I want to talk about and should be talking about. Not the Epstein hoax.”
Trump’s comments came during an Oval Office meeting with Pola