Epstein Files Loom As Polls Show Americans Suspect Trump
 

As the release of further Jeffrey Epstein documents draws closer, new polling suggests President Donald Trump faces a serious political problem — not because of proven wrongdoing, but because a large majority of Americans believe he likely knew about Epstein’s alleged crimes.

 

The latest controversy follows House Democrats releasing new photographs from Epstein’s estate showing Trump alongside other powerful figures, including Bill Clinton, Steve Bannon and Richard Branson. None of the individuals pictured has been accused of criminal activity, and the images themselves add little factual detail. But the timing is combustible.

 

A Reuters–Ipsos poll shows just how sceptical the public has become. Asked whether Trump was not aware of Epstein’s alleged crimes before they became public, only 18% of Americans said that was likely. Sixty percent said it was “not too” or “not at all” likely — a three-to-one margin suggesting voters believe Trump knew something.

 

Even among Republicans, doubts are evident. More GOP voters believe Trump was probably aware of Epstein’s conduct (39%) than believe he was not (34%).

Other surveys paint an even darker picture. A Yahoo News–YouGov poll earlier this year found that 48% of Americans believed Trump had actually engaged in crimes with Epstein. Only 24% rejected that claim outright, with the rest unsure. Among Republicans, just 55% dismissed the allegation entirely, while 13% believed it and one-third remained neutral.

 

None of this constitutes evidence. Trump has not been charged or accused by law enforcement in connection with Epstein and has consistently denied wrongdoing. But the polling reveals something more politically damaging: a public primed to believe the worst.

 

That suspicion is not new. Even before Trump’s indictments, majorities of voters believed he had committed serious crimes, from the Ukraine pressure scandal to broader federal violations. For many Americans, the assumption that powerful figures bend or break the rules is already “baked in.”

 

What makes the Epstein issue especially toxic is Trump’s own handling of it. He has made contradictory statements about his relationship with Epstein, acknowledged knowing that Ghislaine Maxwell recruited a minor employee from Mar-a-Lago, and has struggled to clearly explain what he knew — and when.

 

There are also uncomfortable data points. Trump’s 2002 remark about Epstein liking women “on the younger side” has long resurfaced. More recently released Epstein emails include claims — unproven but politically potent — that Trump knew about Epstein’s interest in young girls. In one 2019 message, Epstein wrote: “Of course he knew about the girls.” In another email from 2011, Epstein referenced Trump in connection with Virginia Giuffre.

 

The White House has dismissed the document releases as a “Democrat hoax,” insisting the materials “prove absolutely nothing” and arguing the administration has done more for Epstein’s victims than its critics.

 

But with a Justice Department deadline looming to hand over further files to Congress, the numbers suggest the damage may already be done. Even absent a smoking gun, repeated mentions, images and innuendo risk reinforcing the perception that Trump had something to hide.

And in politics, perception often matters more than proof.

 

KEY TAKEAWAYS

1. Polls show most Americans believe Trump likely knew about Epstein’s crimes.

2. Doubts persist even among Republican voters, despite no criminal charges.

3. Upcoming document releases pose a real political risk for the president.

 

SOURCE: CNN

 

 

 

So funny to watch Trump and MAGAs, who have been pushing the Epstein file hoax for years, in order to smear Dems, having a taste of their own medecine! 🤣

The Source of the article is CNN. Its a spin on the fact that there is no evidence.

1 minute ago, Yagoda said:

The Source of the article is CNN. Its a spin on the fact that there is no evidence.

Show us your evidence of that....................🤫

5 minutes ago, Yagoda said:

The Source of the article is CNN. Its a spin on the fact that there is no evidence.

 

They probably based their article on sources from Reuters. Now I'm not gonna hold my breath that you will discredit Reuters as well.

 

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/americans-skeptical-trump-epstein-republican-doubts-ease-reutersipsos-poll-finds-2025-12-12/

 

27 minutes ago, CallumWK said:

Now I'm not gonna hold my breath that you will discredit Reuters as well.

I only pay attention to the Real Clear Politics average, otherwise, polls are polls.

19 minutes ago, Yagoda said:

I only pay attention to the Real Clear Politics average, otherwise, polls are polls.

85% are crap. HF system works.

Holey moley.  Trump's poll numbers are down (if you believe the MSM). 

 

That'll sure make it hard for him to win a 3rd term.

 

16 hours ago, candide said:

So funny to watch Trump and MAGAs, who have been pushing the Epstein file hoax for years, in order to smear Dems, having a taste of their own medecine! 🤣

The left at this stage could post a photo of Trump with the Golden girls and pretend its a gotcha moment.

 

Just what the heck was wrong with Trump and those 20 something models? Can see why team left had to black out their faces (digitally not like Trudeau)

16 hours ago, CallumWK said:

 

They probably based their article on sources from Reuters. Now I'm not gonna hold my breath that you will discredit Reuters as well.

 

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/americans-skeptical-trump-epstein-republican-doubts-ease-reutersipsos-poll-finds-2025-12-12/

 

Using facts to argue with a MAGA troll - now THAT'S funny!

16 hours ago, transam said:

Show us your evidence of that....................🤫

Brilliant. Show us evidence of no evidence. Just reading that destroys brain cells.

6 minutes ago, HappyExpat57 said:

Using facts to argue with a MAGA troll - now THAT'S funny!

Using facts to argue with racist, anti semitic, anti American, anti freedom, Trump haters. Now thats a time waster

1 hour ago, Yagoda said:

Brilliant. Show us evidence of no evidence. Just reading that destroys brain cells.

No, no, no, you quoted there is no evidence, how do YOU know there is no evidence, tell us how YOU know there is no evidence............🙄

I, for one, don't believe much you post, you just make things up.....🤥

3 hours ago, Yagoda said:

Brilliant. Show us evidence of no evidence. Just reading that destroys brain cells.

But it is a tactic you have used before. The OP said clearly that there wasn't any evidence at this point. But you come and say, "show me your evidence!"    No one said there was any. It is pretty much the same as your "show us evidence of no evidence."

and the release of more Epstein files will support what his brother claims, that Trump is anything but innocent

 

Jeffrey Epstein’s brother, Mark, has blown a hole in the White House’s defense of President Donald Trump.

 

Trump allegedly ogled Farmer before Epstein rebuked him. “She’s not for you,” the artist claimed Epstein said.

Epstein’s Brother Blows Up White House’s Story on Trump’s Innocence

https://au.yahoo.com/news/epstein-brother-blows-white-house-180958528.html

 

On 12/14/2025 at 4:12 PM, Yagoda said:

The Source of the article is CNN. Its a spin on the fact that there is no evidence.

You noticed that too. Shame Shame on the conspiracy theorist ! I think  the people in the know are the ones that never had a falling out with Epstein. 

 

Get Trump fatigue by the left truly has evolved !

Birds of a feather stick together, and by that I don't mean all those in the photos are guilty of anything. Rather that billionaires will tend to stick with other billionaires. So there will likely be many photos of them together.

 

But I don't doubt that there has been a cover up happening to protect many wealthy, powerful, even royal men, and I don't just mean Andrew.

 

The attempted obstruction, and drip drip of the Epstein files does nothing but keep everything in the media and the public eye. Far better to publish the whole lot and lance the boil once and for all.

After being a convicted felon paying hush money to a prostitute amongst many other things, how can anyone trust this orange thing around children served up by his best mate the pedophile.

Now bongino is on his way out and I assume back on his way to the gravy train i Wonder how long it will take him to change his story regarding epstein ( fully investigated nothing to see) im not saying he will involve trump but its amazing how many recover from memory loss 

Files are being released and showing it's an obvious coverup.

 

Of course, what else did we expect?

And there's me thinking the Pizza hut conspiracy was a bit strange !

DT is up to his neck in the epstein swamp ,,   he will fall far like Andrew mountbatten  windsor ,, but in USA he will eventually  end up in jail ... as the US justice  system will burn him ...

Other members of the toxic elite  will follow him in disgrace from wall st , the media, republicans , celebs, lawyers and Democrats  ..LOL  then USA will regain some sanity .

7 minutes ago, liddelljohn said:

DT is up to his neck in the epstein swamp ,,   he will fall far like Andrew mountbatten  windsor ,, but in USA he will eventually  end up in jail ... as the US justice  system will burn him ...

Other members of the toxic elite  will follow him in disgrace from wall st , the media, republicans , celebs, lawyers and Democrats  ..LOL  then USA will regain some sanity .

While I admire your enthusiastic optimism, the reality is he is above the law. SHOULD he go to jail? Many times over YES! Will he go to jail? The wealthy rarely suffer from the justice the little people are yoked with. Hell, the wealthy WRITE the laws and this sob has the courts, from the Supremes on down, in his pocket. As well, he has an army of zombie lemmings who would set the country on fire if that happened.

 

If you could reason with MAGA people then there wouldn't BE any MAGA people.

Great investigative article in the NY Times. Very revealing. Important and very damning information. Trump and Epstein were very close friends for two decades. Trump is so guilty. 

 

Beginning in the late 1980s, the two men forged a bond intense enough to leave others who knew them with the impression that they were each other’s closest friend, The Times found. Mr. Epstein was then a little-known financier who cultivated mystery around the scope and source of his self-made wealth. Mr. Trump, six years older, was a real estate scion who relished publicity and exaggerated his successes. Neither man drank or did drugs. They pursued women in a game of ego and dominance. Female bodies were currency.

 

Over nearly two decades, as Mr. Trump cut a swath through the party circuits of New York and Florida, Mr. Epstein was perhaps his most reliable wingman. During the 1990s and early 2000s, they prowled Mr. Epstein’s Manhattan mansion and Mr. Trump’s Plaza Hotel, at least one of Mr. Trump’s Atlantic City casinos and both their Palm Beach homes. They visited each other’s offices and spoke often by phone, according to other former Epstein employees and women who spent time in his homes.

 

“I just think it was trophy hunting,” Stacey Williams, who rose to fame as a star of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit editions during the 1990s, said in an interview with The Times. In social media posts and interviews with news outlets in recent years, Ms. Williams has described how Mr. Trump groped her in 1993 at Trump Tower while Mr. Epstein — whom she was then dating — watched. “I think Jeffrey liked that he had this Sports Illustrated model who had this name, and that Trump was pursuing me,” she said. Mr. Trump has denied her account.

To shed light on their friendship, The Times interviewed more than 30 former Epstein employees, victims of his abuse and others who crossed paths with the two men over the years. The Times also obtained new documents that illuminate their relationship and scoured court documents and other public records.

 

Close to 20 women have publicly accused Mr. Trump of groping, forcibly kissing or sexually assaulting them — behavior that he once bragged he could get away with because of his celebrity but later denied ever engaging in.

 

This summer, a spokesman for Mr. Trump denied that the president had ever set foot in Mr. Epstein’s office. The first former assistant, though, recalled Mr. Trump meeting there briefly with Mr. Epstein at least several times during the mid-1990s. Her account was supported by Mark Epstein, Mr. Epstein’s brother, who said that Jeffrey had told him that Mr. Trump visited him frequently.

“He was in the office all the time back then,” Mr. Epstein said in an interview with The Times.

 

Daily handwritten notes kept by the first former assistant and reviewed by The Times suggest that Mr. Trump was a regular presence in Mr. Epstein’s life. The notes, spanning several months in late 1994, have not been previously reported.

Some pages contain instructions to call Mr. Trump or return his call. One note reminded the assistant to call Mr. Trump’s office to see if he was “flying to Fla tomorrow.” Another recorded that a package would be arriving with an invitation to a Mar-a-Lago event.

 

Their relationship was riddled with undertones of envy and disdain. Mr. Epstein seemed to hold a low opinion of his friend’s business acumen, according to the former employees and others who knew him. On one occasion around 2001, the third former employee said, Mr. Epstein was annoyed after Mr. Trump called him. He later told the employee that Mr. Trump was short on cash and wanted a ride on Mr. Epstein’s plane.

 

“I love beautiful women, I love going out with beautiful women and I love women in general,” he said in the footage.

The cameras captured him and Mr. Epstein at the Palm Beach estate, surrounded by cheerleaders from the Miami Dolphins and Buffalo Bills. In the video, Mr. Trump grabs a smiling woman from the rear and pats her on the behind; in another clip, he appears to point toward women on the dance floor, and Mr. Epstein doubles over laughing at something his friend has whispered.

 

In November 1993, Mr. Trump’s chosen pageant contestants flew in from around the world for a week of events at his properties in New York and Atlantic City. At one point, Ms. Harth said in her lawsuit, Mr. Trump demanded that she provide him with “access” to a 17-year-old Czech contestant. The suit does not say if she complied or if Mr. Trump met the contestant.

 

Toward the end of the week, the contestants joined Mr. Trump for a press luncheon at the Plaza. One contestant, Béatrice Keul, then a bank employee and part-time model from Switzerland, said in an interview with The Times that during the event, one of Mr. Trump’s employees asked her to meet privately with him in a suite upstairs. Almost as soon as she arrived, Ms. Keul said, Mr. Trump began groping her, kissing her and trying to lift her dress. “I yelled, I screamed, I pushed him,” she said. “He didn’t want to give up.”

She said she was withholding some details of what happened because she had been subject to anonymous threats. Ms. Keul first described aspects of the episode to The Daily Mail last year. A friend, Pascal Claivaz, told The Times that Ms. Keul recounted the episode at the Plaza to him around 2004. Ms. Keul also provided The Times with pictures of documents corroborating her participation in the pageant and of herself with Mr. Trump.

 

Tina Davis, who modeled for Ford in the mid-1990s, said in an interview that her Ford booker instructed her to get dressed up and attend a Mar-a-Lago party in late 1994. Just 14 and new to Miami, she was told to “dress sexy,” according to her mother, Sandra Coleman, who had accompanied her to Florida. Eight or nine other models came along on the bus. “All the girls were really young,” Ms. Coleman recalled in an interview. “Some of them could have been in training bras.”

When they arrived at Mar-a-Lago, Ms. Coleman said, her daughter was promptly handed a glass of champagne. She took it away, but waiters kept offering more. Each time one of the middle-aged men at the party approached her daughter, Ms. Coleman would walk over and introduce herself as Ms. Davis’s mother.

 

“The government knew about Epstein. They were aware of his sexual abuse of minors and young women,” said Jennifer Plotkin, a lawyer for the women. “And because they did nothing, hundreds and hundreds of women were abused over 20 years.”

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/us/jeffrey-epstein-donald-trump.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

18 minutes ago, liddelljohn said:

DT is up to his neck in the epstein swamp ,,   he will fall far like Andrew mountbatten  windsor ,, but in USA he will eventually  end up in jail ... as the US justice  system will burn him ...

Other members of the toxic elite  will follow him in disgrace from wall st , the media, republicans , celebs, lawyers and Democrats  ..LOL  then USA will regain some sanity .

Millions hope that will be the case. Trump truly deserves to spend his life in prison. But, it will never happen. 

38 minutes ago, liddelljohn said:

DT is up to his neck in the epstein swamp ,,   he will fall far like Andrew mountbatten  windsor ,, but in USA he will eventually  end up in jail ... as the US justice  system will burn him ...

Other members of the toxic elite  will follow him in disgrace from wall st , the media, republicans , celebs, lawyers and Democrats  ..LOL  then USA will regain some sanity .

 

"DT is up to his neck in the Epstein swamp", he will fall far like Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, but in USA he will eventually end up in jail, as the US justice system will burn him"

 

We've heard "we got him this time" for years, all made up by the left. 4 years of Biden's DOJ and 8 years of Obama's Washington establishment, all Trump haters, and they ain't got nothin. How easy would it have been for them to leak a damning pic or file charges(impeachments & Mueller), if it existed? They had full control and came up empty.

 

"Then USA will regain some sanity"

You mean going back to dressing up like girls again (gender affirming care for minors pushed nationwide under Biden), open borders (millions pouring in unchecked), criminals & mentally challenged individuals with rap sheets running around willy nilly (soft on crime policies spiking chaos), foreign nationals by the thousands driving big rigs without understanding English (lax rules causing safety nightmares).

Sounds like you long for more systemic progressivism, the kind that turns order into asylum level madness,if so ,look to your side who wants to burnUS institutions down.

 

 

   

MAGAs have a choice, neither of which is good for the brand.

 

It's an undeniable fact that Trump and Epstein were close friends for several decades.

 

So...either Trump knew full well about Epstein's behavior and still called him "a great guy", or else Trump is such a poor judge of character that he never picked up on Epstein's behavior. In other words, Trump is an idiot.

 

Those are the two 'best case' scenarios.

 

Worse scenarios are that Trump participated.

 

BTW, ANYBODY who participated plus anybody who knew the truth yet chose to ignore it, should face consequences.

6 minutes ago, riclag said:

 

"DT is up to his neck in the Epstein swamp", he will fall far like Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, but in USA he will eventually end up in jail, as the US justice system will burn him"

 

We've heard "we got him this time" for years, all made up by the left. 4 years of Biden's DOJ and 8 years of Obama's Washington establishment, all Trump haters, and they ain't got nothin. How easy would it have been for them to leak a damning pic or file charges(impeachments & Mueller), if it existed? They had full control and came up empty.

 

"Then USA will regain some sanity"

You mean going back to dressing up like girls again (gender affirming care for minors pushed nationwide under Biden), open borders (millions pouring in unchecked), criminals & mentally challenged individuals with rap sheets running around willy nilly (soft on crime policies spiking chaos), foreign nationals by the thousands driving big rigs without understanding English (lax rules causing safety nightmares).

Sounds like you long for more systemic progressivism, the kind that turns order into asylum level madness,if so ,look to your side who wants to burnUS institutions down.

 

 

   

You're assuming other Administrations were as corrupt and vindictive as Trump. That's your error, though an understandable one for a MAGA cultist.

 

Administrations that follow the rules know that an ongoing investigation means info must remain secret, lest it influence the investigation or court proceedings. The Epstein case included his partner in crime Ghislaine Maxwell, and her trial and sentencing only ended relatively recently. It would have been prejudicial to release or leak anything about the case or Epstein while the partner Maxwell was being prosecuted.

 

Previous Administrations followed the law and acted responsibly, as adults. That sort of behavior would be totally out of character for the childish, vindictive, convicted felon Trump.

15 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

But but but …. Whatabout!

Exactly.

3 minutes ago, Wingate said:

MAGAs have a choice, neither of which is good for the brand.

 

It's an undeniable fact that Trump and Epstein were close friends for several decades.

 

So...either Trump knew full well about Epstein's behavior and still called him "a great guy", or else Trump is such a poor judge of character that he never picked up on Epstein's behavior. In other words, Trump is an idiot.

 

Those are the two 'best case' scenarios.

 

Worse scenarios are that Trump participated.

 

BTW, ANYBODY who participated plus anybody who knew the truth yet chose to ignore it, should face consequences.

 

This really is a test to see if the rich and powerful can hide this atrocity.

 

(Former) Prince Andrew got his díck caught in a doorjamb and was dismissed in disgrace.

 

A search for either the name Epstein or that guy who sits behind the resolute desk on the website provided by the White House produces NO RETURNS!  C'mon now, even MAGA sycophants can't be THAT stupid or delusional. The White House Chief of Staff recently told the world that the president's name does appear in the Epstein files multiple times.

 

I repeat, if you could reason with MAGA people then there would BE no MAGA people.