Nia-Malika Henderson, Columnist

The Epstein Conspiracy Is Finally Giving MAGA and Democrats Common Ground

Half of Americans feel dissatisfied by the government’s disclosures in the case.

July 16, 2025 at 2:35 PM UTC

Nia-Malika Henderson is a politics and policy columnist for Bloomberg Opinion. A former senior political reporter for CNN and the Washington Post, she has covered politics and campaigns for almost two decades.

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The monster that President Donald Trump helped to create is now turning on him, and, try as he might, he can’t tame it.

“I don’t understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It’s pretty boring stuff. It’s sordid, but it’s boring,” Trump said Tuesday. “And I don’t understand why it keeps going, I think, well, really only pretty bad people, including fake news, want to keep something like that going.” He kept it up on Wednesday, asserting on his Truth Social platform that the Democrats’ “new SCAM is what we will forever call the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax, and my PAST supporters have bought into this ‘bullsh*t’ hook, line, and sinker.”