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Eugene

(65,990 posts) Fri Jul 25, 2025, 10:19 AM Friday

White House tightens its grip on Jeffrey Epstein messaging

Source: NBC News

White House tightens its grip on Jeffrey Epstein messaging

White House aides have made it clear that no one in the administration is allowed to talk about Epstein without high-level vetting as Trump attempts to change the subject.

July 24, 2025, 5:00 AM EDT
By Jonathan Allen, Matt Dixon, Henry J. Gomez, Allan Smith and Natasha Korecki

WASHINGTON — Jeffrey Epstein is dead, but the White House can’t seem to kill his story.

President Donald Trump and his aides have settled on silence as a strategy to stamp out criticism of his refusal to release files detailing the federal government's investigation of Epstein, according to a senior administration official and Republicans familiar with the White House's thinking.

For weeks, stories about Epstein, the financier and pal to political luminaries who died by suicide awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges in 2019, have been making headlines.

In a break from Trump’s usual crisis communications template — which emphasizes an all-hands-on-deck approach to defending him on television and on social media — the Epstein case has been met with more restraint from the White House.

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White House tightens its grip on Jeffrey Epstein messaging (Original Post) Eugene Friday OP

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Eugene

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1. Desperate Trump Cracks Down on His Own Team Talking About Epstein as Crisis Spirals

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Fri Jul 25, 2025, 10:20 AM

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Desperate Trump Cracks Down on His Own Team Talking About Epstein as Crisis Spirals (The Daily Beast)

President Donald Trump is hoping the outrage surrounding the Jeffrey Epstein files will eventually blow over if his administration just stops talking about it, according to a report.

In a shift from the usual strategy of publicly defending Trump at all costs, White House officials have reportedly implemented a gag order on the administration discussing Epstein without “high-level vetting,” a senior administration official told NBC News.

“The communications office has to be directly involved in every aspect of this,” the official said. “Every ‘i’ must be dotted, and every ‘t’ must be crossed through us.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/desperate-trump-cracks-down-own-120456869.html