Despite his best efforts, President Donald Trump continues to be dogged by questions about his handling of the unreleased Jeffrey Epstein files. And according to MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace, he’s only digging himself into a deeper hole.
On Tuesday, Wallace opened her “Deadline: White House” show with a segment explaining how Trump is “flailing” to swim out of the Epstein news cycle, saying his efforts are doing “precious little to paper over the gaping questions” about Epstein. She began by playing a clip of Breakfast Club co-host Charlamagne Tha God shrugging off Trump’s latest attack against him and urging listeners to remain focused on asking “two simple questions: What about the economy? What about the Epstein files?”
She also observed that Rep. Mike Flood (R-Neb.) was peppered with questions from angry constituents at a recent town hall, many of whom asked him what he was doing to publicly release the Epstein files. The Republican lawmaker insisted that he was in support of a resolution to release a redacted version that left out the names of the convicted pedophile’s victims. And Wallace then pointed out that some of Epstein’s victims themselves are writing letters to the federal judiciary, asking for unreleased evidence to be made public.
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“Now, on the whole, the Trump administration’s attempt to brand their weird moves as transparent just is not working,” she said. “It’s being undermined by a steady drip of revelations that only add to the questions around Trump, Jeffrey Epstein and their years-long friendship.”
To illustrate her point about Trump’s “weird moves,” Wallace referenced the president’s previous comments saying that he kicked Epstein out of his Mar-a-Lago club after he “stole” 17 year-old Virginia Giuffre (an Epstein victim who died by suicide earlier this year at age 41) from the property in 2000. But the MSNBC host said Trump’s claim “contradicts years of reporting” from multiple news outlets that Epstein’s Mar-a-Lago membership wasn’t actually cancelled until 2007 — well after he was indicted for child trafficking.
“Trump’s story before this was that he and Epstein fell out of a real estate deal in 2004,” she recounted, adding that Trump is now “finding himself on the other side of survivors and a majority of the American public” in regard to the Epstein case.
Watch Wallace’s segment below, or by clicking this link.
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