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Trump Urges US to Move On from Epstein Files

Trump claims it's time for America to look beyond Epstein

With the recent release of documents from the US Department of Justice, President Trump is urging the nation to move past the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. However, this is easier said than done. The documents, which emerged from a sex-trafficking investigation, include extensive correspondence that has ensnared several high-profile individuals.

Deputy US Attorney General Todd Blanche announced the end of the government's review, stating that no new prosecutions were warranted. "There's a lot of correspondence, emails, and photographs," Blanche said, "but that's not enough to prosecute."

Despite the DOJ’s conclusion, the House of Representatives continues its inquiry. Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are set to testify, highlighting the enduring impact of the scandal.

Congress members and Epstein's victims are pushing for further disclosures, convinced there are omitted documents. This persistence underscores the complexity of moving beyond what has become a deeply entrenched narrative.

Trump, at the White House, expressed a desire to "get on to something else," asserting that nothing incriminating surfaced about him. Despite this claim, his name appears over 6,000 times in the documents, revealing a past friendly relationship with Epstein, which he maintains ended in the early 2000s.

An email from 2011 by Epstein to Ghislaine Maxwell, mentioning Trump, added fuel to the fire. It implied his strategic silence, stating, "I want you to realize that that dog that hasn't barked is Trump."

The documents also included unverified FBI tips from 2016, accusing Trump and others of misconduct. These allegations, lacking concrete evidence, disappeared temporarily from the DOJ's website, sparking speculation of a cover-up aimed at protecting the president.

Epstein’s ties have brought reputational damage to various prominent figures, including Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, Lord Peter Mandelson, and Larry Summers. Meanwhile, figures like Bill Gates and Elon Musk have addressed their own connections to Epstein, explaining mentions in the released files.

Democrats allege the DOJ may have withheld incriminating documents regarding Trump. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has demanded access to all records, questioning the transparency of the release.

Lisa Phillips, an Epstein survivor, criticized the DOJ’s handling of the documents, citing incomplete disclosures and mishandling of survivors' identities.

As calls for transparency grow, Democrats threaten subpoena action if they gain control of the House in upcoming elections. The relentless push for accountability suggests that despite Trump's insistence, the nation may not be ready to leave the Epstein saga behind.

Key Takeaways

  • Trump urges US to move on from Epstein, but challenges persist.

  • DOJ’s review concludes, but House inquiry and public demands continue.

  • Figures like the Clintons remain under scrutiny amid ongoing disclosures.

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Adapted by ASEAN Now from Source 2026-02.04

 

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John Drake Diamond Member

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Trump has betrayed all his supporters. Again. Some people never learn. He's now going in reverse on his major issues: Epstein, withdrawing ICE, abandoning remigration, blowing up his own tariffs. Only a matter of time before he promises to tear down his Wall and reintroduce DEI. His supporters didn't learn anything from 2016-2020.

spidermike007 Star Member

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3 hours ago, Purdey said:

Look over there! No, over there!

One thing in his favor is that if they were friends only, it is normal to be friends with rich, sophisticated guys.

As said before, if there are real videos of trump having sex with a minor, then it's game over.

There are likely real videos and more than likely they're in the hands of Putin, who has no reason to release them since Trump follows his every wish.

Chomper Higgot Star Member

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8 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

There are likely real videos and more than likely they're in the hands of Putin, who has no reason to release them since Trump follows his every wish.

Or in the hands of ANOther foreign power.

John Drake Diamond Member

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And I toldyaso back in January 2025 before he even took office. He is utterly incompetent.

Wingate Gold Member

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Maybe when the convicted felon moves on from his massive election defeat in 2020, fewer than 89% of Americans will want to "move on" from the Epstein files.

Harrisfan Star Member

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5 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

Well 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 two 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 his jet at least seven times, possibly many more times than that, and we know what his penchant was for "very young women".

Did he visit the island? Very likely.

Did he commit statutory rape? Very likely.

Did he coerce women into sex? Very likely.

Did he get with women under the legal age?

Very likely.

Did our current president rape women?

Very likely.

All one has to do is consider the level to which this man is and was morally depraved to come up with those logical answers.

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 pu***, 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.

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Very likely? Very likely you make stuff up lol

impulse Star Member

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Mostly, I'm curious who took Epstein's place.

Because you know that rich guys aren't going to stop boffing young girls.

spidermike007 Star Member

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6 minutes ago, impulse said:

Mostly, I'm curious who took Epstein's place.

Because you know that rich guys aren't going to stop boffing young girls.

At least those gals are out of danger from Don now that he is incontinent, impotent and senile.

John Drake Diamond Member

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Funny, Trump has directed all available federal law enforcement to track down journalist Savannah Guthrie's missing mother. But he wants to shut down Epstein??? What a complete and utter desperate suck up he is.

Big-Dog Star Member

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3 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Or in the hands of ANOther foreign power.

Maybe, perhaps, could be, what if, someone heard, I think, that's all you got......

Chomper Higgot Star Member

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45 minutes ago, EVENKEEL said:

Maybe, perhaps, could be, what if, someone heard, I think, that's all you got......

There’s plenty of leads in the already released information and in what we already know about Einstein.

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The street dog continues with his racist nonsense and his extreme distaste of anyone who is not white. This pig is truly a horrific president and a man who possesses an incredibly dark and hateful heart. At this point perhaps he's simply desperate to distract from the Epstein narrative, and his incredibly deep level of guilt as a sex offender.

President Trump posted a blatantly racist video clip portraying former President Barack Obama and the former first lady Michelle Obama as apes, the latest in a long pattern by Mr. Trump of promoting offensive stereotypes about Black Americans and others.

The clip, set to “The Lion Sleeps Tonight,” was spliced near the end of a 62-second video that promoted conspiracy theories about anomalies in the 2020 presidential election.

The depiction of Mr. and Mrs. Obama as apes perpetuates a racist trope, used historically by slave traders and segregationists to dehumanize Black people and justify lynchings and other atrocities. A spokeswoman for Mr. Obama declined to comment.

Mr. Trump has a history of making degrading remarks about people of color, women and immigrants. And in his second administration, official posts from the White House, Labor Department and Homeland Security Department have posted images and slogans that echo white supremacist messaging.

Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina — the Senate’s only Black Republican — wrote on X that he hoped the post was fake “because it’s the most racist thing I’ve seen out of this White House. The President should remove it.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/us/politics/trump-obamas-video-apes-truth-social.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

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On 2/5/2026 at 12:49 PM, JonnyF said:

Not really. If Trump was incriminated as you are suggesting Biden would have released them. He didn't, and now we are seeing why.

I want whoever is guilty exposed. So far, that appears to be Mandelson, Gates and most likely The Clintons (amongst others). Haven't seen much info about Trump.

As a neutral observer on the whole affair (apart from Mandelson of course, I'd love to see him get his comeuppance) I believe I am well placed to make such a call, unlike so many of the biased/afflicted Trump haters.

"There are none so blind as those who will not see"

You have been told numerous times why the files weren't released under Biden but I suppose when you're running out of excuses, rehashing the old ones is the only safe haven you have left. And lets discuss your ascertion you are a 'neutral observer' 😆. There's nothing 'neutral' about you Jonny. In the many, many years you have been on this site I have never seen you even once crticise Trump - on the contrary you wax lyrical about him and denounce ANYONE who levels even the smallest amount of criticism of him as 'Trump haters'.

'A neutral observer is an impartial individual who watches events, disputes. or interactions without taking sides, passing judgement or intervening'

There's nothing 'neutral' about you.

spidermike007 Star Member

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A not so nice note to the absolute nimwit, you spent two years promising to unearth the Epstein files, you criticized the Democrats and the DOJ endlessly for keeping them secret, and then once you got elected you did everything in your power to cover them up. It was just another disingenuous move on your part and just another astounding act filled to the brim with a complete lack of sincerity.

But that's just who you are Don, and that's what we've come to expect from you. And many of us know that you're guilty as sin, and the extent of your predator past would shock even the most ardent supporter, if they truly knew the extent of it. Knowing how morally depraved you are it's very likely that you are a serial predator, that you've preyed on underage women, and that you're likely a statutory rapist.

So no Don we are not going to let this go to sleep, and this is going to become the Achilles heel of your sad and pathetic presidency.

Schoggibueb Silver Member

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So his newest try to get the discussion away from his 6000+ entries in the Epstein files was his rascist slurs again against Barack and Michelle Obama.

A bad try, as even Republican lawmakers spoke out en masse against his newest embarassment against the US of A.

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55 minutes ago, Schoggibueb said:

So his newest try to get the discussion away from his 6000+ entries in the Epstein files was his rascist slurs again against Barack and Michelle Obama.

A bad try, as even Republican lawmakers spoke out en masse against his newest embarassment against the US of A.

Then of course,he said he hadn't seen the video, someone else uposted it

, Talk about treating his followers like mugs. The con just keeps on conning.

johnnybangkok Platinum Member

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1 hour ago, Schoggibueb said:

So his newest try to get the discussion away from his 6000+ entries in the Epstein files was his rascist slurs again against Barack and Michelle Obama.

A bad try, as even Republican lawmakers spoke out en masse against his newest embarassment against the US of A.

Try 38,000 times. And that's just in the latest release.

https://newrepublic.com/post/206023/how-often-donald-trump-mentioned-epstein-files

johnnybangkok Platinum Member

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I thought this was quite funny

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candide Star Member

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Aaaah such good memories! 😅

newnative Diamond Member

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Yes, wouldn't Trump just like to 'move on' from the Epstein files. The more he protests there's nothing to see, the more likely there is plenty to see--which his flunkies keep hiding, keep stalling. Any time Donnie says something, the opposite is almost always the truth. So, guilty as sin. We're not 'moving on' Donnie.

Jingthing Legendary Member

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Not a chance.

spidermike007 Star Member

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32 minutes ago, newnative said:

Yes, wouldn't Trump just like to 'move on' from the Epstein files. The more he protests there's nothing to see, the more likely there is plenty to see--which his flunkies keep hiding, keep stalling. Any time Donnie says something, the opposite is almost always the truth. So, guilty as sin. We're not 'moving on' Donnie.

Exactly. It reminds me of the other pathological liar Bill Clinton who insisted he did not have sex with that woman, the more he said it the greater the scandal deepened and the longer it took to go away.

Trump was best friends with Epstein for 20 years, Epstein said it on record many times, Trump was seen with Epstein hundreds of times, there are records of Trump having visited Epstein's office over 100 times, there are records of Epstein visiting Trump's office over 100 times, there are records of Trump visiting the Mansion countless times, and flying on Epstein's jet countless times, the only thing we don't have a record of (that's being well hidden) is how many times Trump visited Orgy Island, and how many times he got with underage women and engaged in statutory rape. That's the only thing we don't know for sure. But it likely happened.

It doesn't take a very analytical mind to analyze how morally depraved Trump has been his entire life, and his public admission that he liked very young women, and then connect the dots.

Red Forever Gold Member

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7 hours ago, johnnybangkok said:

"There are none so blind as those who will not see"

You have been told numerous times why the files weren't released under Biden but I suppose when you're running out of excuses, rehashing the old ones is the only safe haven you have left. And lets discuss your ascertion you are a 'neutral observer' 😆. There's nothing 'neutral' about you Jonny. In the many, many years you have been on this site I have never seen you even once crticise Trump - on the contrary you wax lyrical about him and denounce ANYONE who levels even the smallest amount of criticism of him as 'Trump haters'.

'A neutral observer is an impartial individual who watches events, disputes. or interactions without taking sides, passing judgement or intervening'

There's nothing 'neutral' about you.

Trump is a disgrace to humanity.

Epstein is his downfall.

I almost feel sorry for Jonny Fartpants in that he (JF) was the useful idiot to defend the indefensible alone whilst his far right Trump apologist chums stayed silent.

riclag Star Member

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On 2/5/2026 at 12:49 PM, JonnyF said:

Not really. If Trump was incriminated as you are suggesting Biden would have released them. He didn't, and now we are seeing why.

I want whoever is guilty exposed. So far, that appears to be Mandelson, Gates and most likely The Clintons (amongst others). Haven't seen much info about Trump.

As a neutral observer on the whole affair (apart from Mandelson of course, I'd love to see him get his comeuppance) I believe I am well placed to make such a call, unlike so many of the biased/afflicted Trump haters.

On 2/5/2026 at 12:49 PM, JonnyF said:

Not really. If Trump was incriminated as you are suggesting Biden would have released them. He didn't, and now we are seeing why.

What a vicious web the left has created as they personify using the accusations in the mirror projection tactic. The, "whatever the left is accusing you of doing ,you can bet they're doing it".

"Accusation in a mirror (AiM) is a technique often used to incite hate speech, where someone falsely attributes their own motives or intentions onto their adversaries".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accusation_in_a_mirror

Schoggibueb Silver Member

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1 hour ago, riclag said:

"Accusation in a mirror (AiM) is a technique often used to incite hate speech, where someone falsely attributes their own motives or intentions onto their adversaries".

1 hour ago, riclag said:

"Accusation in a mirror (AiM) is a technique often used to incite hate speech, where someone falsely attributes their own motives or intentions onto their adversaries".

Emm, the "hate speech" comes from the person who is occupying the White House for the moment.

If you arent able to realize this, I suggest you try to find professional help.

candide Star Member

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2 hours ago, riclag said:

What a vicious web the left has created as they personify using the accusations in the mirror projection tactic. The, "whatever the left is accusing you of doing ,you can bet they're doing it".

"Accusation in a mirror (AiM) is a technique often used to incite hate speech, where someone falsely attributes their own motives or intentions onto their adversaries".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accusation_in_a_mirror

Aaaah the good memories of Riclag touting the Epstein files! 🤣🤣🤣

candide Star Member

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It's a rather long list, Details in the article....

Bill Gates

Elon Musk

Richard Branson

Howard Lutnick

Steve Tisch

Josh Harris

Larry Summers

Sergey Brin

Donald Trump

Bill Clinton

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor

Sarah Ferguson

Miroslav Lajčák

Thorbjørn Jagland

Mette-Marit

Peter Mandelson

Peter Attia

Katie Couric

Steve Bannon

Martha Stewart

Deepak Chopra

Woody Allen

Brett Ratner

Brad Karp

Politicians. Business titans. Hollywood figures. See the names — and their correspondence — in latest Epstein files release

https://www.cnn.com/politics/jeffrey-epstein-associates-communication-vis

Front Row Advanced Member

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The Mad King tells America to get over the Epstein files. America needs to tell The Mad King to get over the 2020 election.

Schoggibueb Silver Member

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Epstein survivors release a new Super Bowl ad nationwide

I hope he enjoys watching it...

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