The Democratic National Committee posted and then quickly removed a claim on X that President Donald Trump spent Thanksgiving with Jeffrey Epstein in 2017, based on an unconfirmed email from the convicted sex offender released in a House Oversight Committee probe.
White House records and media reports confirm Trump was at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, with family, staff, and military personnel that day. The incident, occurring amid ongoing Epstein document disclosures, prompted backlash from Trump supporters, who accused the DNC of spreading false information.
Journalist Andy Ngo spotted the deletion and pointed out the absurdity of the claims. “The official
@TheDemocrats X account tweeted out a lie from Jeffrey Epstein that President Trump spent Thanksgiving 2017 with him,” Ngo wrote.
“As president at the time, his schedule was documented with contemporaneous photos and video.”
The original post claimed that documents “showed” Trump spent Thanksgiving in 2017 with Epstein. The claim was rapidly debunked by the White House and users online.
For months, Democrats have attempted to link Trump with Epstein’s crimes despite years ‘ worth of evidence and testimony pointing to the exact opposite. This reached a fever pitch on Thursday, when party leaders used a series of mostly old, and some new emails to claim Trump was close friends with Epstein.
The party’s official X page on Thursday highlighted a February 8, 2017, email sent by Epstein to former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, who served in the Clinton Administration, in which he railed against Trump. “Recall I’ve told you… I have met some very bad people… none as bad as Trump. not one decent cell in his body… so yes– dangerous,” Epstein wrote.
Democrats seized on the words of a notorious sex trafficker in an effort to attack Trump. “Newly released emails show Jeffrey Epstein thought Trump was one of the worst people he knew, with ‘not one decent cell in his body,’” the party gloated through its official X page. “He went on to describe Trump with one word: ‘Dangerous.’”
The post was largely panned on social media, with many X users pointing out that the email directly contradicts the narrative that Trump and Epstein were close friends. In a July 18 post, the Democratic Party’s official page released a video claiming that Trump had a “close” relationship with Epstein, claiming that they had a “secret friendship.”
