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WASHINGTON (NewsNation) — U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, defended President Donald Trump connected Wednesday implicit his handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files and the resulting inner-party feud that has ensued.
“I person assurance successful the president and his team,” Jordan told NewsNation’s Chris Stirewalt astatine The Hill Nation Summit. “There’s an yearly trek that the lawyer wide and the lawman FBI manager marque to Capitol Hill successful beforehand of the Judiciary Committee — we deliberation we’ve got dates already scheduled aboriginal this summer. Well, they’ll beryllium successful beforehand of the committee, and I’ve told everyone, ‘You tin inquire them.’ Republicans are going to person questions for them, Democrats are going to person questions for them connected this contented and a big of different issues. And I deliberation that’s however it should proceed.”
Jordan said that could hap arsenic aboriginal arsenic erstwhile Congress “gets backmost from the August break.”
Trump connected Wednesday lashed retired astatine his ain supporters, accusing them of being duped by Democrats, implicit disapproval of his administration's handling of much-hyped records successful the Jeffrey Epstein enactment trafficking investigation, which Trump present calls a “Hoax.”
“Their caller SCAM is what we volition everlastingly telephone the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax, and my PAST supporters person bought into this 'bull----,' hook, line, and sinker,” Trump wrote Wednesday connected his Truth Social site, utilizing an expletive successful his post. “They haven’t learned their lesson, and astir apt ne'er will, adjacent aft being conned by the Lunatic Left for 8 agelong years.”
“Let these weaklings proceed guardant and bash the Democrats work, don’t adjacent deliberation astir talking of our unthinkable and unprecedented success, due to the fact that I don’t privation their enactment anymore! Thank you for your attraction to this matter,” helium went on.
The schism centers connected his administration's handling of documents surrounding Epstein, who was recovered dormant successful his New York jailhouse compartment successful August 2019, weeks aft his apprehension connected enactment trafficking charges. Last week, the Justice Department and the FBI acknowledged that Epstein did not support a “client list" to whom underage girls were trafficked, and they said nary much files related to the probe would beryllium made public, contempt past promises from Attorney General Pam Bondi that had raised the expectations of blimpish influencers and conspiracy theorists.
Bondi had suggested successful February that specified a papers was sitting connected her table waiting for review. Last week, however, she said she had been referring mostly to the Epstein lawsuit file, not a lawsuit list.
“It’s a caller medication and everything is going to travel retired to the public,” she had said astatine 1 point.
Trump has since defended Bondi and chided a newsman for asking astir the documents.
“I don’t recognize what the involvement oregon what the fascination is,” helium said Tuesday.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
