Donald Trump is still facing backlash over his handling of the Epstein files. Naturally, Trump has been trying to distract with culture war grievances and attacks on Barack Obama. But, voters are increasingly saying they want Trump to release information on Epstein.

Tulsi Gabbard has alleged that Obama's administration manufactured intelligence about Russian interference in the 2016 election.

With US president Donald Trump continuing to face pressure over his administration’s handling of the Epstein files – something he claims is a “hoax” orchestrated by Democrats – critics of the Republican are now seeing any other flippant remark from the convicted felon as a “desperate” attempt to change the subject.

In 2007, while Bush was president, federal investigators at the FBI and U.S. attorney's office prepared to indict Epstein, but negotiations between Epstein’s lawyers and the U.S. attorney's office in Florida’s Southern District led by Alexander Acosta resulted in a secret deal that let Epstein avoid federal charges.

The federal investigations happened under Bush and Trump, not Obama or Biden. And Comey wasn’t even in government at the time.

Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. After continuing to amass unprecedented power in the White House, steamrolling a compliant Congress and being nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by world leaders more eager to flatter than confront him,

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

Even President Donald Trump doesn’t seem to think his angry and chaotic efforts to end the renewed storm over convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein will work.