A surprising poll has dropped, revealing that a whopping 53 percent of Americans believe President Trump is desperately trying to conceal crimes linked to notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The Economist/YouGov poll, unleashed Tuesday, sends shockwaves across the nation, with only 29 percent backing Trump against the allegation of a cover-up.

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In another jaw-dropping reveal, the poll shows a staggering 50 percent of Americans think Trump was involved in Epstein’s shady dealings. Meanwhile, a mere 30 percent believe he kept his hands clean. The details behind these figures reveal a stark party divide. Among Democrats, a stunning 91 percent accuse Trump of a cover-up, while just 13 percent of Republicans share the sentiment. A similar split exists regarding alleged involvement: 86 percent of Democrats point the finger at Trump, with 67 percent of Republicans defending him.

Despite the uproar, Trump stands firm. He's consistently denied any role in Epstein's sordid past and insists he distanced himself from the disgraced financier long ago. Yet, criticism of his administration's handling of the Epstein investigation refuses to die down.

A major move came last year when Congress nearly unanimously passed a law demanding the Department of Justice reveal all Epstein-related files. Reluctantly, Trump signed the bill. However, the DOJ faces backlash for releasing heavily redacted documents, leaving some victim identities glaringly exposed. The numbers from the latest poll show widespread disapproval, with only 24 percent satisfied with Trump’s investigative handling, against 57 percent expressing discontent.

Amid the turmoil, former Trump ally Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene slammed the situation as Trump’s “biggest political miscalculation.” On the "Home of the Brave" podcast, Greene voiced disdain for the president’s handling of the Epstein files. She argued he was pressured into transparency, flipping his stance just before a crucial vote in Congress.

This new poll surveyed 1,682 U.S. adults between February 13-16, carrying a margin of error of 3.1 percentage points.

Key Takeaways

• 53% think Trump is covering up Epstein crimes.

• 50% believe Trump was involved with Epstein.

• DOJ criticized for Epstein file handling.

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How dumb do the other 47 percent need to be to not see the totally obvious?

I suppose it isn't "surprising" at all that so many Americans are so clueless. Sad though. Doesn't bode well for ever recovering from the damage Trump has done to American democracy and America's previously credible leadership role in the world.

I don't see Biden or Clinton doing anything.

7 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

How dumb do the other 47 percent need to be to not see the totally obvious?

I suppose it isn't "surprising" at all that so many Americans are so clueless. Sad though. Doesn't bode well for ever recovering from the damage Trump has done to American democracy and America's previously credible leadership role in the world.

Epstein was convicted in 08. Neither Obama or Biden did anything.

The left has no self awareness.

The biggest disappointment I have with this story is that only 53% of people think Trump is trying to conceal something. WTF do the other 47% think he's doing? 😟

If the Department of Justice and the FBI say it, it must be untrue. How are they to be trusted, especially when they're being politicized to the extent that they are right now?

Trump has a lot to answer for, he had a decade long friendship with Epstein, who said on record Don was his closest friend in the world. There's countless amounts of information about Trump having spent an inordinate amount of time at the mansion, and there are flight records showing that Trump flew on Epstein's plane at least seven times, possibly many more times than that, and we know what his penchant was for "very young women". The only thing that's missing is proof that he was on Orgy Island, which is very likely.

Will you guys please stop this nonsense, will you please stop insisting on the release of these files? I'm not guilty, I was never friends with Epstein, we were never close, we didn't hang out together, the photos of us with our arms around each other were all doctored, I didn't spend a lot of time at his mansion, I didn't take multiple trips to Orgy Island, I've never been with underage women, I've never sexually assaulted a woman, and I've never committed rape.

Can't you see how incredibly handsome and appealing I am? Why would I need to do that, all women want me, and I can just grab them by the pus**, just so just stop with the nonsense, and leave it alone.

I know I may have mentioned it several hundred times during the campaign, but I'm the king now, so you guys need to just forget it and behave like loyal subjects and show me alot of fealty. Behave yourselves.

There are some politicians that come along who are ignorant, thick-headed and just don't understand how politics work. Trump is one of them. Yes he was able to lie to and manipulate enough people to get elected twice, but he is simply not smart enough to handle his own PR. Like Bill Clinton, had Don just simply admitted that Epstein had procured many women for him over the course of their friendship (but insisted that they weren't underaged) it's very likely this thing would have just gone away. Most Americans simply presume that he used Epstein's gals (though some of us presume they were likely underaged, making Trump a serial statutory rapist). But that cannot be proven so if he simply admitted that he got busy with Epstein and his gals this whole thing probably would not have stuck. After all, Trump is morally depraved and ethically bankrupt, so why wouldn't he have used Epstein's gals?

Like Clinton and his lies it just won't go away, and it does appear to be Trump's personal brand of Kryptonite. Sorry Don. Your guilt sticks to you like a very ugly and contagious disease. In your particular case you are very, very guilty until proven innocent, which will never happen.

2 hours ago, Jingthing said:

How dumb do the other 47 percent need to be to not see the totally obvious?

Self-Delusion is a powerful thing once it has a hold of you...

Trump isn't the problem , it is the people around him.

2 hours ago, Harrisfan said:

I don't see Biden or Clinton doing anything.

They are not in government.

IF IF IF on the very wild chance that there are no incriminating videos /pics etc proving trump was indeed diddling kiddies then the only other possible reason i can imagine for the cover up is that trump knows that some of the hidden/witheld evidence clearly shows some of his billionaire buddies doing it. Billionaires who know for a fact that there are videos and all sorts of evidence against them...likely pisses them off that epstein still had copies of them on videos and pics and still had them by the short curlies even after they gave him hundreds of millions in extortion funds.

Perhaps some of these billionaire buddies have the goods on trump for who knows what other nefarious frauds,money laundering or worse.....Just maybe these billionaires have made it clear to trump if he does not keep the evidence hidden away or destroyed and they go down that they will take the entire trump gang down with them.

There is obviously some very good reason that trump is doing everything possible to keep the evidence burried away. Never in history has such an innocent man done so much to hide the tons of evidence that would no doubt prove his total innocent.

3 hours ago, Harrisfan said:

I don't see Biden or Clinton doing anything.

Both are ethically upright Presidents who would not interfere with the Justice Department and FBI matters. Not current White House douchebag.

Former MAGA loyalist and Republican lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene says that President Donald Trump warned her that his “friends would get hurt” if she continued pushing for the Department of Justice to release its files on sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein against Trump’s opposition.

1 minute ago, pomchop said:

Former MAGA loyalist and Republican lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene says that President Donald Trump warned her that his “friends would get hurt” if she continued pushing for the Department of Justice to release its files on sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein against Trump’s opposition.

Putin taught him well.

2 minutes ago, pomchop said:

Former MAGA loyalist and Republican lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene says that President Donald Trump warned her that his “friends would get hurt” if she continued pushing for the Department of Justice to release its files on sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein against Trump’s opposition.

He obviously did not convince her! 😀

Nonsense. There is no cover-up.

5 minutes ago, Thingamabob said:

Nonsense. There is no cover-up.

Absolutely. Time for MAGA to introduce lese majeste laws to the States lock up all those leftie ingrates.

2 minutes ago, retayl said:

Absolutely. Time for MAGA to introduce lese majeste laws to the States lock up all those leftie ingrates.

For King Donald? Is this you in the photo?

4 hours ago, Harrisfan said:

Epstein was convicted in 08. Neither Obama or Biden did anything.

The left has no self awareness.

Weren't there 2 Republican Presidents since (and including) '08 too?

100% believe it's a cover-up--how could it possibly not be with a jerk who publically boasts he likes to grab a woman's you know what. Can you imagine what the rapist got up to in private? Disgusting. Those in the minority are: 1. Secretly lyng but know in their hearts it's true. 2. Brain dead.

Okay, we all know the 34 times convicted felon Trump is a pedophile, and we all know that Trump is protecting pedophiles, yes?

But if that is true, why did the Biden DOJ continue to protect all the pedophiles for four years, after Trump left office?

And why did the Biden DOJ not charge, much less convict any of the countless pedophiles that Trump was, and is protecting when they had the chance?

Can anyone help square this?

Where is the Epstein client list? Was it just a MAGA hoax? 😀

Bondi says Epstein client list 'sitting on my desk right now,' and is reviewing JFK, MLK files

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bondi-says-epstein-client-list-sitting-my-desk-right-now-reviewing-jfk-mlk-files

'a whopping 53 percent of Americans believe President Trump is desperately trying to conceal crimes linked to notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.'

The article writer missed the more amazing story.

Despite everything a whopping 47% think everything is just fine.

1 minute ago, greeneking said:

'a whopping 53 percent of Americans believe President Trump is desperately trying to conceal crimes linked to notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.'

The article writer missed the more amazing story.

Despite everything a whopping 47% think everything is just fine.

Crimes that the Biden DOJ concealed for four years, yes?

3 hours ago, FlorC said:

Trump isn't the problem , it is the people around him.

The problem is both Trump and the people around him. Trump selected from the absolute bottom of the barrel, and picked people so lacking in talent it is almost a bizarre circus that he has created, and he has deprived the American people of the talent that they deserve. Just look at Bondi, Patel, Noem, Lutnick, Miller, and all these other clowns and talentless goombahs.

1 hour ago, Yellowtail said:

Okay, we all know the 34 times convicted felon Trump is a pedophile, and we all know that Trump is protecting pedophiles, yes?

But if that is true, why did the Biden DOJ continue to protect all the pedophiles for four years, after Trump left office?

And why did the Biden DOJ not charge, much less convict any of the countless pedophiles that Trump was, and is protecting when they had the chance?

Can anyone help square this?

Could it be that he was afraid that Trump, if busted, might take down prominent Democrats and also some of Biden's supporters?

1 hour ago, Hawaiian said:

Could it be that he was afraid that Trump, if busted, might take down prominent Democrats and also some of Biden's supporters?

It is possible, but it makes no sense.

First, one has to assume Biden was calling the shots at the DOJ

Second, one has to assume Biden cared more about being reelected than prosecuting criminal pedophiles

Third, one has to assume Biden would protect prominent Democrats that he knew to be criminal pedophiles

Forth, one has to assume that so many prominent Democrats were criminal pedophiles, that the party could collapse

All of these things have to be true.

Biden was president, it was early in his term, he would have been a nation hero for taking down Trump and a ring of criminal pedophiles, and any blowback this would have been over by the times the midterms came.

1 hour ago, spidermike007 said:

The problem is both Trump and the people around him. Trump selected from the absolute bottom of the barrel, and picked people so lacking in talent it is almost a bizarre circus that he has created, and he has deprived the American people of the talent that they deserve. Just look at Bondi, Patel, Noem, Lutnick, Miller, and all these other clowns and talentless goombahs.

Likely they were picked for their very lack of backbones and brains and to be convenient fall guys and flunkies that will be blamed for everything while trump says "i know nothing about this and that" unless it is some glimmer of good news in which case it was all him and him alone. Loyalty to dear leader is number one and dear leader certainly does not want any smart people around him...as he himself said...i love the undeducated and smart people hate me.

I do hope that once the damn breaks and trump is gone that all of these flunkies and enablers will be tried convicted and jailed. Tump will either be dead or so demented he will be unfit to stand trial.

One must REALLY be in a delusional state if they can't understand that, out of multiple countries that are bringing investigations and charges against Epstein rapists, the US is THE ONLY ONE NOT DOING SO!

Firchrissake - WAKE UP, MAGA sycophants!

Republicans have pointed the finger at the previous administration. So, why weren’t the Epstein files released while former President Joe Biden was in office?

Epstein case was an open investigation under Biden

The Epstein case was an open criminal investigation during the Biden administration, Miami Herald investigative reporter Julie K. Brown explained on social media. Brown’s extensive reporting since 2017 has shone a light on the crimes of Epstein and his longtime accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell. Her book about Epstein, titled “Perversions of Justice,” is a New York Times bestseller.

Schumer calls for Senate to sue administration over Epstein files 

“They had an open grand jury. … And even after Maxwell’s conviction, the case was on appeal — anyone in law enforcement knows you don’t open your case file when it’s still under appeal,” Brown added.

Victims were still going to the FBI with information during Biden’s term, but that changed when President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice reviewed the files and closed the case in July, Brown said.

8 minutes ago, pomchop said:

Republicans have pointed the finger at the previous administration. So, why weren’t the Epstein files released while former President Joe Biden was in office?

Epstein case was an open investigation under Biden

The Epstein case was an open criminal investigation during the Biden administration, Miami Herald investigative reporter Julie K. Brown explained on social media. Brown’s extensive reporting since 2017 has shone a light on the crimes of Epstein and his longtime accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell. Her book about Epstein, titled “Perversions of Justice,” is a New York Times bestseller.

Schumer calls for Senate to sue administration over Epstein files 

“They had an open grand jury. … And even after Maxwell’s conviction, the case was on appeal — anyone in law enforcement knows you don’t open your case file when it’s still under appeal,” Brown added.

Victims were still going to the FBI with information during Biden’s term, but that changed when President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice reviewed the files and closed the case in July, Brown said.

Okay, we all know the 34 times convicted felon Trump is a pedophile, and we all know that Trump is protecting pedophiles, yes?

But if that is true, why did the Biden DOJ continue to protect all the pedophiles for four years, after Trump left office?

And why did the Biden DOJ not charge, much less convict any of the countless pedophiles that Trump was, and is protecting when they had the chance?

No ideas?