House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Thursday that President Trump’s struggle to contain the MAGA outcry over the Jeffrey Epstein files is a monster of his own making.

“Democrats didn't put this into the public domain,” Jeffries told reporters in the Capitol. “The conspiracy theory provocateur-in-chief is the one — along with his extreme MAGA Republican associates — who put this whole thing into the public domain for years.

“And now they are reaping what they have sown."

Trump, on the campaign trail, had suggested that, if elected, he would release the government files related to Epstein, a wealthy financier and convicted pedophile who died in 2019 in a Manhattan jail cell, where he was awaiting trial for the sex trafficking of minors.

Many of Trump’s supporters believe those documents, including an alleged “client list,” are the Rosetta stone needed to uncover a much broader criminal enterprise of sex trafficking and pedophilia undertaken by a who’s who of global “elites” who were being shielded by the government.

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