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Mr. Trump’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier who died in prison in 2019, are under renewed scrutiny as pressure mounts from the president’s supporters to release the government’s files on Mr.
Democrats in Congress want to force votes to release the full Jeffrey Epstein files. The party’s candidates are bringing up the Epstein case in campaign speeches. And at least one potential 2028 contender is fundraising off the furor.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) is shocking some colleagues by fully embracing efforts to exploit divisions between President Trump and his MAGA base over the administration's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files.
In defending how his administration is handling supposed files on Jeffrey Epstein, he said "stupid" Republicans fell for a hoax.
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The Nation on MSNJeffrey Epstein’s Victims Are Again Being Wronged by Donald Trump’s CircusOne person who has never forgotten the victims is Miami Herald journalist Julie K. Brown, whose 2019 reporting on the original criminal case reopened the scandal and led to Epstein’s arrest. In her reporting, Brown highlighted the voices of victims such as Virginia Giuffre.
President Trump is trying, yet again, to climb out of the political mire into which he has sunk over the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. On Wednesday, Trump sought to pin the blame on unnamed Republicans
P resident Donald Trump on Wednesday dismissed the outrage within his party over the Jeffrey Epstein files as “bull—t,” rebuking his own supporters for buying into what he called a “Jeffrey Epstein Hoax” and declaring he no longer wanted the backing of “weaklings.”
Those strategies include appointing a special counsel who would be tasked with investigating the case and producing a comprehensive report on the matter. Officials have also suggested petitioning courts to unseal any remaining Epstein case files (the dead pedophile’s crimes took place in several different states,
Republicans on the House Rules Committee sought to defuse political pressure around the explosive Epstein issue by adopting a nonbinding resolution to possibly consider releasing the Epstein files in the future.