President Donald Trump says his name may have been planted in the Jeffrey Epstein files by former FBI Director James Comey or former Attorney General Merrick Garland.

“Those files were run by the worst scum on earth. They were run by Comey, they were run by Garland, they were run by [former President Joe] Biden, and all of the people that actually ran the government, including the autopen. Those files were run for four years by those people. If they had anything, I assume they would have released it,” Trump told reporters Monday in Turnberry, Scotland.

“Now, they can easily put something in the files that’s a phony. … Christopher Steele, as an example, wrote a book, a dossier. We call it the fake news dossier. And the whole thing was a fake. The whole thing was a fake. They could put things in the file that are fake, but those files were run by bad, sick people,” he said.

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