An Epstein files heckler was removed from Donald Trump’s rally in Corinth, Mississippi, on Monday night after shouting “release the Epstein files” from the crowd at 8:13 p.m. ET. Trump brushed him off from the stage, claiming the man was a paid protester and blaming billionaire Democratic donor George Soros. No evidence has surfaced that anyone paid the man to be there.
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Trump was at the Crossroads Arena to rally support for Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith and Rep. Trent Kelly, eight days before the Nov. 3 midterm elections.
The Epstein files are the records the federal government gathered while investigating Jeffrey Epstein, the wealthy financier who died in a New York jail cell in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. Trump signed the Epstein Files Transparency Act in November 2025, a law requiring the Justice Department to release the remaining documents. Millions of pages have come out since, but the department has been accused of holding files back and redacting names, and the demand to release everything has followed Trump from rally to rally. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, once one of his loudest allies in Congress, lost his endorsement after she pushed for the files’ release.
The Epstein files heckler’s message lined up with the attack Democrat Scott Colom has been making against Hyde-Smith all fall. Colom, a district attorney from Columbus, is running a closer than expected race against her. Before the rally, he said Hyde-Smith is “scared to answer why she voted to cut health care, why she betrayed our farmers, and why she blocked the release of the Epstein files.”
Colom also showed up in Corinth on Monday. He held a news conference near the rally site before Trump arrived and told voters that Mississippi needs lower grocery prices, an end to endless wars and health care for families. “We do need to release the Epstein files,” he said.
Trump’s Soros line echoes the Republican message in this race. The Senate Leadership Fund is a super PAC tied to Senate Republicans. A super PAC is a political group that can raise and spend unlimited money on ads as long as it does not coordinate directly with a candidate. It is running ads that tie Colom to Soros, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Samantha Cantrell, a spokesperson for the National Republican Senatorial Committee, called Colom “a Chuck Schumer-backed, George Soros-funded, Transgender Defender.”
Republicans sent Trump to friendly ground. Corinth sits in Mississippi’s 1st Congressional District, which Trump carried with 68 percent of the vote in 2024. Mississippi Democratic Party chairman Cheikh Taylor said the visit says more about national politics than about what Mississippi voters are weighing.
The Corinth Epstein files heckler is the latest in a string of rally interruptions this month. At Trump’s rally in Youngstown, Ohio, a woman wearing a homemade “Release the Epstein Files” shirt was grabbed and hit by several men in the crowd before police removed her. Trump called her a paid protester and mocked her weight as it happened. On Sunday in Port Huron, Michigan, Trump stopped his speech to call another disruptor a paid protester and had him taken out. In July, a man at a General Motors site in Milford, Michigan, shouted “pedophile protector” at Trump, and Trump answered by calling him a communist.
Kamala Harris is scheduled to campaign with Colom in Columbus on Thursday. Mississippi votes on Nov. 3.
