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Mick Mulvaney, a Republican congressman and formerly one of President Donald Trump’s highest-ranking aides in the White House, has said in an interview that Trump is in the Jeffrey Epstein files, which his administration claimed to have and were prepared to release, only to pivot and say it does not exist.
Mulvaney served as the acting Chief of Staff — considered one of the most powerful and senior positions in the Executive Office of the President, typically ranking just below the President in terms of day-to-day influence within the White House and the West Wing — from January 2019 until March 2020.
That time frame is particularly notable because it overlaps with when Jeffrey Epstein died.
The Chief of Staff controls access to the President, serves as their a coordinator, manager, and advisor, and are, in effect, the President’s top man or woman in the White House, and are considered to be a “gatekeeper” to the most powerful man in the world.
“He’s [Donald Trump] in the files. A lot of people are in the files. But if there was something in the files that [was] particularly damning about Donald Trump, the files would have been released by the Biden administration,” Mick Mulvaney said in an upcoming interview with international news outlet Al Jazeera.
“My guess is that it’s particularly damning of people on both sides of the aisle, which is why Trump doesn’t want to release it and why Biden didn’t want to release it either,” he continued.
“I imagine Donald Trump’s name is in the [Epstein] file someplace. There are photographs of them together…I have to imagine his name is on the list someplace.”
"I imagine Donald Trump's name is in the [Epstein] file someplace. There are photographs of them together…I have to imagine his name is on the list someplace."
Mick Mulvaney, who was Donald Trump's White House chief of staff when Epstein died in prison, talked to me on… pic.twitter.com/peoAru0ZwQ
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This week, Trump took to his social media platform to accuse MAGA supporters of “buying into bulls—” surrounding Epstein and call them “weaklings.”
He also doubled down on his claim that the Epstein files are a Democratic hoax and lashed out at followers who believe otherwise, saying he no longer wants their backing if they’re still “talking” about Epstein.
“What’s going on with my ‘boys’ and, in some cases, ‘gals?’ They’re all going after Attorney General Pam Bondi, who is doing a FANTASTIC JOB! We’re on one Team, MAGA, and I don’t like what’s happening. We have a PERFECT Administration, THE TALK OF THE WORLD, and “selfish people” are trying to hurt it, all over a guy who never dies, Jeffrey Epstein. For years, it’s Epstein, over and over again,” Trump wrote on social media in an effort to tame his base’s anger over the situation.
“Let’s keep it that way, and not waste Time and Energy on Jeffrey Epstein, somebody that nobody cares about,” the statement concluded.
“My PAST supporters have bought into this ‘bulls—,’ hook, line, and sinker. They haven’t learned their lesson, and probably never will, even after being conned by the Lunatic Left for 8 long years,” Trump wrote in a later post.
Unfortunately for the White House, they seem to find themselves in a bit of a quicksand situation, as their trashing only seems to make them sink further, as evidenced by the fact that data from Google Trends shows that searches for the word “Epstein” have spiked in recent weeks.