Epstein attorney slams Musk's claim that Trump is 'in the Epstein files'

Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News on Jun 6, 2025

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A defense attorney who worked with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein claims his former client provided no information that would implicate President Donald Trump in any illegal activity.

Epstein, who hanged himself at Manhattan’s Metropolitan Correctional Center in 2019 while awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges, was known to party with Trump when the two were high-rolling businessmen in the ’90s and 2000s.

Their once-close relationship came under scrutiny again on Thursday when billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk alleged the president was a party to Epstein’s dubious behavior.

“Time to drop the really big bomb: @RealDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public,” Musk wrote on X amid his days-long feud with the president.

But according to defense attorney David Schoen, there’s no such bombshell that can be found in any documents related to Epstein’s alleged crimes.

“I was hired to lead Jeffrey Epstein’s defense as his criminal lawyer nine days before he died,” Schoen wrote in a series of tweets in reaction to the allegation. “He sought my advice for months before that. I can say authoritatively, unequivocally and definitively that he had no information to hurt President Trump. I specifically asked him!”

The attorney also retweeted quotes from MAGA surrogates like political strategist Roger Stone, who helped circulate Schoen’s defense of the president.

Musk presented no evidence to support his accusation, but insisted “the truth will come out.”

House Democrats responded to the inflammatory claim by calling on Trump-appointed Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel to “immediately clarify” whether Musk’s allegation is true, according to a letter obtained by Axios.

Musk spent nearly $300 million last year to put the president back in power. On the campaign trail, he wore a hat emblazoned with the words “Trump Was Right About Everything” and heaped praise on the MAGA leader for months, all before their relationship publicly exploded this week.

While Musk once enjoyed nearly unfettered access to the president and professed his “love” for Trump in February, it all broke apart after Musk walked away last week from his brief tenure with the Department of Government Efficiency.

He spent the subsequent days blasting Trump’s signature budget bill as “a disgusting abomination,” before dropping his Epstein allegation and then calling for Trump’s impeachment.

Trump responded by saying Musk has “lost his mind,” accusing him of having “Trump Derangement Syndrome.”

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