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Uncle Joe

(63,706 posts)
Sat Nov 15, 2025, 10:37 AM Saturday

Trump, 79, Shushes Reporter for Asking About Epstein

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Speaking to reporters while flying to Mar-a-Lago for the weekend, Trump was asked about his relationship with Epstein, specifically Epstein’s claim that the president “knew about the girls as he asked Ghislaine to stop,” referring to Epstein’s accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, who recruited victims as part of the financier’s sex trafficking operation.

The president responded by deflecting and drawing attention to other powerful men in Epstein’s network, including former President Bill Clinton and former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers.

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“Jeffrey Epstein and I had a very bad relationship for many years, but he also saw a strength because I was president,” he continued. ”So he dictated a couple of memos to himself. Give me a break. You’ve got to find out what did he know with respect to Bill Clinton, with respect to the head of Harvard, with the respect of all of those people that he knew, including JPMorgan Chase.”

When the reporter attempted to ask a follow-up question, asking the president, “Sir, if there’s nothing incriminating in the files,” he cut her off, shouting, “Quiet! Quiet!” before taking a question from another reporter.


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https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-79-shushes-reporter-for-asking-him-about-jeffrey-epstein/

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3catwoman3

(28,158 posts)
1. He's so rude and dismissive.
Sat Nov 15, 2025, 10:39 AM
Saturday

I'm constantly puzzled that anyone finds him admirable in any way.

Uncle Joe

(63,706 posts)
2. In one breath he says they should go after other powerful people over Epstein and in the next
Sat Nov 15, 2025, 10:45 AM
Saturday

shuts down a question to open the files and potentially expose the very people that *rump says should be exposed.

walkingman

(10,122 posts)
4. He does this because he knows that no one will do anything about it.
Sat Nov 15, 2025, 11:57 AM
Saturday

The American people, our elected representatives, the media, our justice system....nobody. I think we could safely say that our Democracy has failed.

pwb

(12,417 posts)
5. Reporters asking the village idiot for his opinion
Sat Nov 15, 2025, 12:09 PM
Saturday

and leading him on with suggestive questions ? What a media we have eh?

republianmushroom

(22,096 posts)
6. ... very bad relationship for many years... but, yes,
Sat Nov 15, 2025, 12:16 PM
Saturday

I did invite him to thanksgiving dinner in 2017.

electric_blue68

(24,958 posts)
7. I wish some Very Well Known Reporter with big monetary reserves would just shout out "STOP Your Incessant LYING!!!...
Sat Nov 15, 2025, 02:11 PM
Saturday

For chrissakes, already!!! 😑😑😑

Sigh.....

And, oh, and then most of the reporters would burst into cheers!!
As they say "a girl can dream, can't she!"

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