Elon Musk rages against Trump's theory that Epstein 'list' is a hoax

Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News on Jul 16, 2025

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Elon Musk is once again raging against the Trump administration for its handling of the investigation into deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Amid the billionaire entrepreneur’s explosive social media feud with Trump in June, he alleged the Justice Department was withholding information about the disgraced financier because the president is “in the Epstein Files.”

Musk eventually removed that post from his X platform, but has more subtly pushed for information about Epstein’s life and death to be released in the weeks since.

On Wednesday, Musk seemed to take exception to the president now dismissing the entire matter as a “hoax” and so far declining to appoint a special prosecutor to further explore Epstein’s ties to the rich and powerful — including Trump.

“Wow, amazing that Epstein ‘killed himself’ and Ghislaine (Maxwell) is in federal prison for a hoax,” Musk fumed.

While multiple investigators have concluded Epstein died by suicide by awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges in 2019, conspiracy-minded skeptics suspect he was killed in a deep-state plot to stop him from exposing high-profile figures with a sexual predilection for minors.

Meanwhile, Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s very close associate, was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2022 for “her role in a scheme to sexual exploit and abuse multiple minor girls with Jeffrey Epstein over the course of a decade,” according to the Justice Department.

Though conspiracy theorists have long speculated Epstein kept a damning “client list,” Trump-appointed Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement last week that no such list exists and no further information about the matter would be released.

In a series of more than a dozen posts about Epstein in just over an hour, Musk further vented Wednesday that “not even one” predator allegedly associated with Epstein and Maxwell’s scheme has been prosecuted. He further groused that “so many powerful people want that list suppressed.”

Trump has scolded reporters for bringing up the Epstein case and criticized his own supporters for pressing the issue. In a Wednesday morning post on Truth Social, he accused them of being duped by a “bulls--t” Democratic party ruse.

“Their new SCAM is what we will forever call the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax,” Trump wrote.

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