Trump: No Special Counsel for Epstein Files

“If the Attorney General, Department of Justice and the FBI have more credible evidence in regards to Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes, they should put that forward,” Leavitt said. “He has called on them to do that.”

“The president is referring to the fact that Democrats have now seized on this, as if they ever wanted transparency,” Leavitt said, noting that files weren’t released during the administration of former President Joe Biden.

The decision to not release the files has given Democrats fuel to accuse Trump and his allies of hiding something. “This is about years and years of international sex trafficking,” Sen. Ron Wyden (D., Ore.) said Thursday on the Senate floor. “None of this is a hoax. None of it is a scam. It’s insulting to the intelligence of the American people when Trump and Bondi say there’s nothing here to investigate.”

The Justice Department on Wednesday fired federal prosecutor Maurene Comey, who was involved in a number of high-profile criminal cases, including Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell. Asked if Trump signed off on the firing, Leavitt said it was made by the Justice Department. No reason was given for her firing, Comey told colleagues in an email on Thursday. She is the daughter of former Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey, who became a prominent Trump critic after being fired during his first term.