President Donald Trump defended Attorney General Pam Bondi Saturday evening — calling her performance “FANTASTIC” — and went further to accuse former President Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and other Democrats of allegedly “creating” the Epstein Files,

Trump claimed former President Obama, Hillary Clinton, and more political adversaries ‘created the Epstein files’ following Sunday’s DOJ memo.

During his remarks, Trump asked Bondi if she felt like answering the reporter's question. "I don't mind answering," the attorney general replied. When the president finished speaking, Bondi addressed the reporter and cited an interview she did with Fox News in February, which she said had "been getting a lot of attention."

Attorney Spencer Kuvin, who represents one of Epstein’s victims, shared: "We certainly knew that Mr. Trump was a close friend of Mr. Epstein during those exact years that Mr. Epstein was molesting these young girls. "These are two gentlemen that definitely ran in the same circles."

A screen shot of Trump’s post was shared on X by Shibetoshi Nakamoto who wrote, “this is in the running for worst post ever made.” Musk responded by writing, “Seriously. He said ‘Epstein’ half a dozen times while telling everyone to stop talking about Epstein. Just release the files.”

Jeffrey Epstein's brother Mark Epstein added heat to the inferno that’s already scalding the White House this week. Epstein was a guest on the Friday edition of Don Lemon’s ‘Lemon LIVE at 5 podcast’,

Historian Richard Hofstadter was a pioneer observer of what he called “The Paranoid Style in American Politics,” which he described in a 1964 Harper’s Magazine analysis of the use of loose facts and pseudo-facts to build an alternative reality for political ends.

The Trump administration is facing significant blowback from Democrats and MAGA supporters over its handling of the Epstein files.