BREAKING: Trump slams House Dems for trying to ‘deflect’ from gov shutdown by releasing Epstein emails

Trump wrote, "The Democrats are trying to bring up the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax again because they’ll do anything at all to deflect on how badly they’ve done on the Shutdown, and so many other subjects. Only a very bad, or stupid, Republican would fall into that trap. The Democrats cost our Country $1.5 Trillion Dollars with their recent antics of viciously closing our Country, while at the same time putting many at risk — and they should pay a fair price. There should be no deflections to Epstein or anything else, and any Republicans involved should be focused only on opening up our Country, and fixing the massive damage caused by the Democrats!"

The emails released by Oversight Democrats, spanning from 2011 to 2019, included a redacted name of a victim, which was Virginia Giuffre. Giuffre had previously said that Trump was not involved in any of Epstein’s wrongdoings.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt was asked about the emails in Wednesday’s press conference, to which she said, "These emails prove absolutely nothing other than the fact that President Trump did nothing wrong, and what President Trump has always said is that he was from Palm Beach and so was Jeffrey Epstein. Jeffrey Epstein was a member at Mar-a-Lago until President Trump kicked him out because Jeffrey Epstein was a pedophile and he was a creep."

She noted how reporting from CBS "that Ms. Giuffre maintained, and God rest her soul, that she maintained that there was nothing inappropriate she ever witnessed, that President Trump was always extremely professional and friendly to her, and so I think its a question worth asking the Democrat party … of why they chose to redact that name of a victim who has already publicly made statements about her relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and is unfortunately no longer with us."

Leavitt also said that it was a "manufactured hoax by the Democrat Party for, now they’re talking about it all of a sudden because President Trump is in the Oval Office. But when Joe Biden was sitting in there, the Democrats never brought this up. This wasn’t an issue that they cared about."