White House, Trump and Epstein
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Mark Epstein, the older brother of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, refuted the White House’s claims that President Trump never visited the convicted sex offender at his office. “That’s just
House Speaker Mike Johnson rebuffed pressure to act on the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, instead sending members home early on Wednesday for a month-long break from Washington after the week’s legislative agenda was upended by Republican members who are clamoring for a vote.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said Tuesday that the Department of Justice wants to interview Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend. Maxwell was convicted in 2020 of helping the disgraced financier sexually abuse underage girls and is currently serving a 20-year sentence in federal prison.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will brief reporters Wednesday afternoon as the Trump administration wades through controversy around its handling of the probe into disgraced
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?