Reporter: Are you completely ruling out the idea of firing Jerome Powell?
President Trump: I don't rule out anything, but I think it's highly unlikely, unless he has to leave for fraud. I mean, it's possible there's fraud involved with the 2.5, 2.7, billion dollar renovation. This is a renovation. How do you spend 2.7 billion dollars? And he didn't have proper clearance, etc, etc.
President Trump: I know it's a hoax [Epstein Files]. It's started by democrats. It's been run by the democrats for four years. You had Christopher Wray and these characters, and Comey before him. And it's a bad group…it's all been a big hoax that's perpetrated by the democrats, and some stupid republicans and foolish republicans fall into the net, and so they try and do the democrats work. The democrats are good for nothing other than these hoaxes…I call it the Epstein Hoax.
Reporter: You mentioned fraud in an earlier answer. Are you saying you want to investigate the Fed Chair for fraud related to this renovation?
President Trump: Well, I think he's already under investigation. He's spent far more money than he was supposed to on rebuilding.
President Trump: Whatever is credible, she can release [Bondi; Epstein Files]. If a document is credible, if a document's there that is credible, she can release. I think it's good. But it's just a subject; he's dead, he's gone, and all it is is the republicans, certain republicans got duped by the democrats, and they're following the democrat playbook. No different than Russia, Russia, Russia, and all the other hoaxes. They're started by the democrats…
Reporter: You mentioned past supporters when you are talking about the Epstein issue. Does that mean that you are effectively disowning any supporters who are now [inaudible]?
President Trump: I've lost a lot of faith in certain people, because they got duped by the democrats.
He, or someone pretending to be him, used to post wild sounding stuff on the board years ago. Seemed to be a bit over the top crazy.