President Donald Trump issued a panicked plea Friday in an apparent attempt to quell inquiries into Jeffrey Epstein and his ties to powerful figures, including Trump himself.

“The Democrats are doing everything in their withering power to push the Epstein Hoax again, despite the DOJ releasing 50,000 pages of documents, in order to deflect from all of their bad policies and losses, especially the SHUTDOWN EMBARRASSMENT, where their party is in total disarray, and has no idea what to do,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social.

“Some Weak Republicans have fallen into their clutches because they are soft and foolish. Epstein was a Democrat, and he is the Democrat’s problem, not the Republican’s problem! Ask Bill Clinton, Reid Hoffman, and Larry Sommers about Epstein, they know all about him, don’t waste your time with Trump. I have a Country to run!”

Trump has yet again faced a renewed wave of scrutiny over his past ties with Epstein – who died in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges – after the House Oversight Committee released 20,000 pages of documents from Epstein’s estate on Wednesday.

Among the new revelations is an email that suggests Trump may have “spent hours” with one of Epstein’s victims at his home. Another suggests that Trump was photographed performing oral sex on a mysterious person known as “Bubba” – a known nickname of former President Bill Clinton – and that the photograph is in the possession of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Trump’s lashing out at “some weak Republicans” is likely referencing Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), Thomas Massie (R-KY), Nancy Mace (R-SC) and Lauren Boebert (R-CO), all of whom have signed onto a discharge petition that would force a vote on a bill that would compel the Justice Department to release all of its files on Epstein.