Trump, Jeffrey Epstein and Rupert Murdoch
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New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart join John Yang to discuss the week in politics, including the MAGA debate over releasing the Epstein files intensifies and congressional Republicans deliver Trump a win by clawing back $9 billion in foreign aid and public media funding.
Several Trump backers have called for more transparency after Pam Bondi's Justice Department announced that no more files would be released.
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The Mirror US on MSNA look back at Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein's relationship as client list scandal heats upDonald Trump has radically escalated his condemnation of his own supporters on social media in the midst of an unprecedented moment of division within the MAGA coalition about the Trump administration's conflicting reports about the existence of Jeffrey Epstein's client list and its willingness to release its contents.
1997 Trump and Epstein were photographed standing near each other at a Victoria’s Secret “Angels” party, according to a Getty image of Trump posing with model Ingrid Seynhaeve that shows Epstein in the background.
President Donald Trump raged against the MAGA “troublemakers” and “radical left lunatics” demanding further disclosure on the “Epstein files” Saturday. The seething president, who has spent the last week batting away questions about his connections with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein,
President Donald Trump has struggled to meet demands he helped stoked for information about Jeffrey Epstein's criminal case.
When Epstein was deposed in 2016 and was asked under oath if he ever socialized with Trump in the presence of minor girls, he claimed his Fifth Amendment right to not incriminate himself and refused to answer. (He invoked his Fifth Amendment rights at least 600 times during this deposition.)
The President has tried to blame the Democrats, and, more unexpectedly, he has called those in his base who have asked for a fuller accounting “weaklings” and “stupid.”
Lawmakers from the left are putting pressure on what has become a sensitive spot for Trump with his growingly frustrated base.
During his remarks, Trump asked Bondi if she felt like answering the reporter's question. "I don't mind answering," the attorney general replied. When the president finished speaking, Bondi addressed the reporter and cited an interview she did with Fox News in February, which she said had "been getting a lot of attention."