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Eugene

(66,768 posts)
Thu Jan 1, 2026, 03:59 PM 19 hrs ago

Top Senate Dems Demand Trump's Chief of Staff Explain How She 'Read the Epstein Files'

Source: Mediaite

Top Senate Dems Demand Trump’s Chief of Staff Explain How She ‘Read the Epstein Files’

Alex Griffing
Tue, December 30, 2025 at 4:24 PM EST·3 min read

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), the ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) sent Trump Chief of Staff Susie Wiles a letter on Tuesday asking her to explain how she knew certain details of Trump’s relationship with convicted sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein.

Wiles made several eyebrow-raising comments to Vanity Fair in an explosive profile earlier in the month, including verifying that Trump was on Epstein’s plane – something Trump had denied in the recent past.

“In a recent Vanity Fair profile, you said you have read ‘the Epstein file’ and that President Trump ‘is in the file’; ‘was on [Epstein’s] plane’; and is ‘on the manifest.’ Please be kind enough to explain when and where and under what authority you gained access to this material, as requested below. It would be good to have your responses to the following questions by January 5, 2026,” the senators wrote to Wiles, adding some specific questions:

1. What were the materials in “the Epstein file” you referred to in your Vanity Fair interview?

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Read more: https://news.yahoo.com/news/articles/top-senate-dems-demand-trump-212417270.html

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Top Senate Dems Demand Trump's Chief of Staff Explain How She 'Read the Epstein Files' (Original Post) Eugene 19 hrs ago OP
I think there's a White House Cliff Notes edition bucolic_frolic 19 hrs ago #1
Titled the bs file SheltieLover 19 hrs ago #3
Seeing eye to eye as usual bucolic_frolic 19 hrs ago #4
... SheltieLover 16 hrs ago #7
She read over a milion pages? SheltieLover 19 hrs ago #2
Boy, That's Some Fast Reading! ProfessorGAC 19 hrs ago #5
Yup. She's a liar, a pre-req for a job in this regeime SheltieLover 19 hrs ago #6

ProfessorGAC

(75,816 posts)
5. Boy, That's Some Fast Reading!
Thu Jan 1, 2026, 04:22 PM
19 hrs ago

Even if she started when she got to the WH, that's 85,000 pages a month!
I'm impressed
I guess I should consider the possibility that she's a liar.

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