Elon Musk has claimed that President Donald Trump “is in the Epstein files” and that’s “the real reason” they have not been released in his latest public attack.
“Time to drop the really big bomb,” Musk posted on X. “@realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public. Have a nice day, DJT!”
He followed up shortly after: “Mark this post for the future. The truth will come out.”
The president and the billionaire are currently trading blows on social media in a very public breakdown of their relationship.
“Elon was ‘wearing thin,’ I asked him to leave, I took away his EV Mandate that forced everyone to buy Electric Cars that nobody else wanted (that he knew for months I was going to do!), and he just went CRAZY!“ the president wrote before Musk dropped the claim about the Epstein files.
“The easiest way to save money in our Budget, Billions and Billions of Dollars, is to terminate Elon’s Governmental Subsidies and Contracts. I was always surprised that Biden didn’t do it!”
The delay in releasing the Epstein files has infuriated MAGA.
Attorney General Pam Bondi released the “first phase” of declassified files on February 27 related to the late sex offender. She invited MAGA online personalities to the White House to see the files for themselves, but the binders contained information that had already been released to the public.
At a briefing last month, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt was asked when the bulk of the files would be released. She said she didn’t have a “specific timeline.”
In January 2024, Trump posted on Truth Social that he “was never on Epstein’s Plane, or at his ‘stupid.’”
Trump previously said he had known Epstein for 15 years and called him in “terrific guy” in 2002, before allegations about the financier surfaced.
The president was previously named in court filings in a lawsuit brought by the late Virginia Giuffre, who took her own life earlier this year, against Ghislane Maxwell. There were no accusations of wrongdoing against Trump.
Other mentions of Trump in the documents did not accuse him of any illegality, but claimed he and Epstein were on good terms.
Epstein, who had a number of high-profile friends and acquaintances – including Trump, former president Bill Clinton, and celebrities like Prince Andrew – died in a New York jail in 2019 where he was being held on sex trafficking charges. He had previously been jailed after pleading guilty in Florida to procuring a girl below the age of 18 for prostitution.
