White House’s cryptic posts immediately backfire as critics invoke Epstein-Trump ties

The White House’s official social media account on X made several cryptic posts Thursday night featuring pixelated images of President Donald Trump – an apparent bid to boost engagement that quickly backfired as critics immediately invoked the president’s past ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

Given the frequent use of pixelation to redact photographs, the pixelated images of Trump shared by the White House drew immediate comparisons to some of the redacted files released recently by the Justice Department (DOJ) related to Epstein...