Trump, Jeffrey Epstein
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If Donald Trump's defamation suit doesn't settle, the discovery process could raise more questions about his ties to Jeffrey Epstein.
Trump, who does not stand accused of wrongdoing in connection with Epstein, has tried to steer the conversation away from the issue.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday pointed out one glaring inconsistency in President Donald Trump’s strenuous denial of a Wall Street Journal report that alleged he once sent a lewd birthday note to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, his onetime close friend.
Trump's post comes after the Justice Department asked federal judges to unseal the grand jury testimonies in the criminal case of Jeffrey Epstein.
He—the president, their leader, the martyr who had endured scandals and prosecution and an assassin’s bullet on their behalf—had repeatedly told them it was time to move on, and that alone should suffice. Why, he groused, would the White House add fuel to the fire, would it play into the media’s narrative?
"All the work that we did to tell the world what happened to us, it’s all being erased," victim Danielle Bensky said.
Donald Trump has a good reason to try to change the conversation right now, so he’s pulling out all the stops. Sunday morning, he took time out of trying to fix the American economy, broker peace in several places around the world,
President Trump’s response to criticism of the Justice Department’s Jeffrey Epstein findings. Take a breath, and consider these facts: The Biden administration had access to whatever