July 2025 sparked a fresh new wave of Jeffrey Epstein controversy, thanks to none other than President Donald Trump.US Attorney General Pam Bondi said she had the Epstein client list "sitting on her desk" on February 21. At a MAGA influencer event held at the White House on February 27, she and her team revealed a "Phase 1" binder for the release. (@) Fast-forward to July 7, when the Department of Justice (DOJ) released a memo saying there was "no incriminating 'client list.'"MAGA began collapsing immediately, and #PedoPresident started trending on X (and hasnt stopped.) Petitions demanding transparency circulated, and Republican House Representative Thomas Massie introduced the Epstein Files Transparency Act to enforce a vote among the House of Representatives to release the governments full files on the Epstein case, saying, We all deserve to know whats in the Epstein files, whos implicated, and how deep this corruption goes. Trump responded by calling Massie the worst Republican Congressman. Other outspoken Trump supporters like Marjorie Taylor Greene, Laura Loomer, Alex Jones, and Megyn Kelly started to criticize the president, with MTG echoing Massie's call for truth. (@) Then, a bombshell Wall Street Journal scoop dropped on July 17, where investigators had found a bawdy 2003 birthday note, allegedly penned by Trump, in Epsteins personal files.Five days later, the DOJ admitted the presidents name appears multiple times in federal evidencebut then insisted there were no further Epstein files to release.Instead of mollifying supporters, Trump has inserted himself into the conversation surrounding the pardon of Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein's alleged co-conspirator. When asked if he would pardon her, he said he was "allowed to" if he wanted, but that "nobody's asked" him about it. See on InstagramThis move detonated his online base, whose Q-adjacent lore casts Maxwell as queenpin of a global trafficking ring. Overnight, some of Trumps most die-hard supporters turned their backs on him.His response has been to launch (or threaten) legal action in every direction as part classic countersuit strategy and part headline-scrambling fog machine.Below is a whos-who list of his current targets, and what each feud is really about.The Wall Street JournalOn July 18, Trump lodged a $10 billion libel complaint in federal court, saying the Journal fabricated the birthday letter and smeared him as Epsteins pal. Trumps lawyers immediately asked the judge to depose [owner Rupert] Murdoch within 15 days.I hope Rupert and his friends are looking forward to many hours of depositions and testimonies they will have to provide in this case, Trump said in a Truth Social post.Apart from Murdoch, the suit names the Journals Publisher, Dow Jones & Company, alongside its parent, News Corporation. The Dow Jones CEO, Robert Thomson, is also on there, as are the two reporters on the Epstein story bylines, Joseph Palazzolo and Khadeeja Safdar.Former President Barack ObamaGrowing tired of blaming everything on Biden, Trump turned back to his 2016 tactics of blaming everything on former President Barack Obama.At a July 22 press talk, Trump urged the DOJ to go after Obama, claiming he buried evidence tying Bill Clinton to Epstein and engineered the original Russia probe to retaliate.He later shared a photo across his social media channels depicting O.J. Simpsons car chase, with Obama in Simpsons drivers seat and Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance driving two cop cars behind him.See on InstagramIn doing so, Trump also inadvertently trolled Vance by using the digitally fattened face photo that many people use to make fun of him.Former President Bill ClintonThe second former president Trump went after was Bill Clinton, who has long faced conspiracy theories from MAGA over his relationship with Epstein.During a meeting with U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer while visiting Scotland, Trump said hed never had the privilege of going to Epstein Island and that it was one of his very good moments turning down the invite.However, he took it a step further, saying, Bill Clinton went there supposedly 28 times. I never went to the island, but [former Treasury Secretary] Larry Summers, I hear, went there, he was the head of Harvard. And many other people that are very big people, nobody ever talks about them. For the record, Clinton, like Trump, was also found on the Epstein flight logs. (@) However, even Democrats and Clinton supporters are just as willing to hang him as they are Trump, but if he says his name being on there is a lie, who's to say the same isn't true for Clinton?Former Vice President Kamala HarrisAs if two former presidents werent enough, Trumps also turning his gaze to former Vice President and 2024 challenger Kamala Harris, who he now says ran a campaign funded by illegal celebrity payments. Hes hinted that the DOJ should indict her based on wire fraud. In another Truth Social rant, Trump said he was looking at the large amount of money owed by Democrats, after the Presidential Election, saying theyd admitted to paying, probably illegally, for celebrity endorsements. He later emphasized, YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO PAY FOR AN ENDORSEMENT. IT IS TOTALLY ILLEGAL TO DO SO. Can you imagine what would happen if politicians started paying for people to endorse them.Beyonc, Al Sharpton, and OprahIn the same Truth Social post targeting Harris, Trump also went after Beyonc, Oprah Winfrey, and Al Sharpton for various reasons.As for Queen Bey, he (falsely) said she was paid $11 million for an ENDORSEMENT (she never sang, not one note, and left the stage to a booing and angry audience!)Oprah allegedly took $3 million for expenses, while Sharpton, whom he called a total lightweight and low rated TV anchor, allegedly took $600,000 forsomething.Sharpton refuted the claims on MSNBC, saying, This is the second or third time lawyers for National Action Network are looking at whether we can sue him for defamation because he had knowledge this time that there was no endorsement and that I didnt get any money. This went to the nonprofit Im connected to. ABC News and NBC NewsEvery news that doesnt worship the ground he walks on is Fake News in the Trump world, and neither ABC nor NBC is safe from his wrath.Fresh off a $16 million settlement from Paramount, the owners of CBS, Trump called for the networks to lose their licenses for being political pawns for the Democratic Party.He first attacked their viewership and management, then doubled down on his stance that networks arent allowed to be political pawns, but only for the Democratic Party.Shockingly, following the settlement with Paramount, Trump has done nothing to bring any legal action against South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone for that epic takedown of him on the most recent season premiere, showing him in bed with Satan and making fun of his small penis.So, can the lawsuit blitz bury the Epstein story?Hopefully not.The $10 billion WSJ case will crawl through discovery; Obama and Clinton enjoy presidential immunity from most civil claims; campaign-finance prosecutions would require evidence the FEC says it hasnt seen; and broadcast licenses cant be yanked just because he says so.What this strategy does do however, is keep conservative media focused on Trumps counter-punches instead of the potential impending pardon and withholding of the actual files. You know, his usual distract and deflect MO.Whether the presidents scatter-shot legal barrage can recapture these votersor will simply keep Epstein in the headlinesis an open question. For now, the only certainty is that the defendant list keeps growing, and it's not likely to stop anytime soon. And here we were, hoping theyd simply release the files.