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Wed Sep 10, 2025, 08:01 AM Sep 10

The Memo: Trump's all-guns-blazing approach backfires on Epstein birthday letter

(The Hill) The Jeffrey Epstein saga is causing new problems for President Trump.

This time, it’s raising questions about the strategy he and his aides have adopted in denying any involvement in a book prepared for the deceased financier and sexual predator’s 50th birthday.

The emphatic strategy was risky from the start — and now looks very flimsy, indeed.

As a consequence, the president has given fresh impetus to a story that has disquieted even parts of his base. It’s a story Trump is eager to move past — yet he keeps doing things that put that goal further out of reach.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/memo-trump-guns-blazing-approach-215329325.html

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