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Trump Furious Over Epstein Scandal Dominating Headlines | 2025 Breaking News   **Trump Breaking News Update 🗞️** Former President Donald Trump is reportedly furious as the Jeffrey Epstein scandal continues to dominate media headlines. Amid legal troubles and ongoing indictments, Trump is losing control of his political narrative.  Political experts, including Puck News Chief Political Columnist John Heilemann, Washington Post White House Reporter Emily Davies, and Former Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes, analyze how Trump’s influence over the GOP is being tested.  With topics like Trump’s spending, trade war with China, angry public statements, and Epstein ties resurfacing, this new storm is making waves during a politically critical moment.  **Trending Topics:** Trump latest news, Trump impeachment hearing, Trump indictments, Trump Epstein connection, Republicans against Trump, Trump fury, Trump extremism, Trump waste, Trump and China, Trump angry reactions, Trump presidency analysis, Trump influence collapse.  Stay informed on the political landscape and the implications of these revelations.

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00:00Donald Trump entering the week in a position he doesn't typically find himself in, with some of

00:05his most loyal backers, low mo, as in low momentum, on spinning a bogus narrative about the Jeffrey

00:13Epstein investigation. Brand new reporting in the Washington Post reveals that Team Trump was

00:18caught flat-footed by the reaction to the DOJ memo that attempted to pour cold water on the

00:24existence of bombshell revelations in the government's possession. Claims spread most

00:29convincingly and prolifically by the officials who now populate the highest levels of Trump's own

00:35administration. From that new reporting, quote, Donald Trump is increasingly frustrated with his

00:41administration's handling of the furor around the Jeffrey Epstein files, concerned that the saga's

00:47unabated domination of the news is overshadowing his agenda. That is according to two people familiar

00:53with his thinking. One person tells the Washington Post this, quote, this is a pretty substantial

00:59distraction. While many are trying to keep the unity, in many ways the DOJ and the FBI are breaking

01:05at the seams. Many are wondering how sustainable this is going to be for all the parties involved,

01:11be it the FBI director or the attorney general. Well, perhaps the FBI director or the attorney

01:18general should have dialed back the promises they were making on television about the existence

01:23of lists and other evidence, given that they were appointed by a president who has made no secret

01:29about his belief that the main function of the FBI director and attorney general is now

01:34to protect him. We have shown you many of the clips of Dan Bongino and Kash Patel pushing,

01:42clamoring, screaming about the release of the Epstein files. Remember, it is Kash Patel who lashed out at

01:48House Republicans back in 2023 by saying this, quote, put on your big boy pants and let us know who the

01:56pedophiles are, end quote. Kash Patel also promised full transparency during his Senate confirmation

02:02hearing. So will you work with me on this issue so we know who worked with Jeffrey Epstein in building

02:12the sex trafficking rings? Absolutely, Senator. Child sex trafficking has no place in the United States of

02:19America. And I will do everything if confirmed as FBI director to make sure the American public knows the full

02:25weight of what happened in the past and how we are going to counterman missing children and exploited children

02:30going fjord. Everything except release the Epstein material. And that was that was in January, January 30th of this year.

02:39Less than one month after Kash Patel said that in his confirmation hearing, his friend, the attorney general

02:47Pam Bondi goes on Fox News and says the Epstein client list is on her desk. Six days after that, Bondi hands out

02:56binders to right wing media personalities and influencers labeled the Epstein files phase one, a title that by

03:03definition implies that there are more phases, at least two. All of this makes the July 7th memo declaring

03:12that there is nothing to see here. There was nothing. There was no client list. Jeffrey Epstein committed

03:18suicide in prison. All that becomes all the more confounding, not to us, but to Trump's own allies and

03:27supporters. Politico reports this quote, the administration seemed to want to put the issue

03:32to bed quietly with this relatively terse and unsigned joint DOJ FBI memo. Case closed was the

03:39notion. So what happens? Why does the tone change? Wall Street Journal reports that sometime in May,

03:48Attorney General Pam Bondi tells Donald Trump that his name appears in the Epstein files

03:52multiple times. The mere mention of Donald Trump's name does not imply any wrongdoing,

03:57but Politico reports this quote, it may have triggered a critical inflection point in the

04:03administration's handling of the issue and its public statements on the subject. Since the release

04:08of the memo, Donald Trump has lashed out, slamming the media for asking questions about Epstein,

04:15even though most of the questions and complaints are coming from his most vocal supporters who are the

04:20most steeped in the story to begin with. And they're the ones who've been pushing. Here's what Trump said

04:26today. Well, I haven't been overly interested in it. You know, it's something, it's a hoax that's

04:45been built up way beyond proportion. I can say this, those files were run by the worst scum on

04:51earth. They were run by Comey. They were run by Garland. They were run by Biden and all of the people

05:00that actually ran the government, including the auto pen. Those files were run for four years by those

05:09people. If they had anything, I assume they would have released it. The whole thing is a hoax.

05:17The whole thing's a hoax. That's why I kicked him out of Mar-a-Lago. Hoax.

05:23Doesn't even make sense in his world. He's even tried to dismiss the story as boring. And it is a

05:31lot of things, gross, sordid, confusing, but boring is not one of those things. But most importantly,

05:38perhaps, none of this is working really for the first time. Even Trump's efforts on the Epstein

05:46issue itself, where he seems to be trying to get out of it, seem half-hearted and destined to really

05:53leave him where he is, which is politically stuck. And maybe that's by design as well. The DOJ pushing for

05:59the release of the grand jury transcripts of the case, which one judge has already rejected.

06:04Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche's meeting with Ghislaine Maxwell has lots of people baffled.

06:10Here's what Chris Christie, who was once a big Trump backer, was in the running to be AG in the

06:15first Trump term, had to say about those meetings. I have never seen this done, ever. The Deputy

06:25Attorney General runs the Department of Justice. They don't interview witnesses. And so I wonder,

06:33the first question that popped to my mind, Sarah and I were talking about this, was, you know,

06:37whenever you're a line assistant or anyone who's interviewing a witness, you bring at least one agent

06:42with you, if not two. So there are a number of people taking notes and there are witnesses there.

06:47We have heard nothing about whether Todd Blanche brought anyone with him to verify whatever he's

06:53going to report back as a third independent source. This is highly unusual. And if they're

07:01building a case, building a case for what and against who? She's in jail for 20 years and her

07:07co-conspirator is dead. So what exactly are they doing? It makes it look even worse. I think this is

07:14a bad political move for the White House on top of it. It makes it look like one of the people that

07:20is being accused of covering up Todd Blanche is now in charge of digging out the truth.

07:29So when you've lost Chris Christie, that's where you are. Team Trump, unable to find their way out

07:35of a mess, very much of their own making when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein, is where we begin again

07:40today. Puck News chief political columnist, MSNBC national affairs analyst John Heilman is here.

07:45Also joining us, White House reporter for The Washington Post, Emily Davies. She's byline

07:50on some of that fantastic reporting we just read from. And former deputy national security advisor

07:55to President Obama, MSNBC contributor Ben Rose is here. Heilman, let me start with you. And Chris

08:03Christie has been a critic of Donald Trump's for many years now. But I haven't seen such pointed and

08:09specific criticism of this team at DOJ from him yet. But he asked a very pointed question there.

08:20What is Todd Blanche doing if not seeming to engage in a cover up from the highest echelons of the

08:28Department of Justice? It's a very pointed question, Nicole, and also a very unanswered question at this

08:34point. And it's a question that, as you will well remember, our friend Andrew Westman raised on

08:39on this program at the end of last week. And he made exactly the same point, I believe, on Friday,

08:45where he said, you know, we have no idea if anybody was with Todd Blanche, extremely unusual that Todd

08:50Blanche would be there. It made all the more unusual by the fact that Todd Blanche is not just the deputy

08:55attorney general, but also with Donald Trump's former defense attorney. And the fact that we do not

09:00know at this hour whether anyone was in the room with him and if someone was in the room with him, who that

09:07person was. And of course, it's fueled a lot of speculation, inference, suggestion, combined with Donald

09:15Trump waving off discussion, not not waving off as in saying, no, of course, Jillian Maxwell will not be

09:24pardoned. I would never consider such a thing for a convicted child sex trafficker. No, Donald Trump,

09:30twice has now been asked about it, asked about it on Friday, and I believe asked about it today

09:36in Scotland. And both times is not said, well, I have the right to do it. I mean, I haven't thought

09:41about it. No one's brought it to me, which is, you know, TLDR of Donald Trump. Yeah, it's certainly

09:46on the table. I think that's a non a not unreasonable inference and very easy to knock that down.

09:52So if you put those two things together, it suggests something very nefarious. Chris Christie

09:57didn't go quite that far in speculation as I just did. And as some have done, many have done.

10:02But that is where we're at right now. And I will say, well, we'll get we can get back to this later.

10:07I want to get back to some of your timeline, but but I don't want to hog the air at the top here.

10:12But I do want to get back to the way these perceptions are playing out among Trump supporters

10:16and what we're hearing from them now. And it's not just the Trump can't get past this. It's that

10:20every time he tries to get past it, he's making it worse for himself. He just ensnaring himself further

10:26in the web of suspicion and the sense of betrayal that a lot of his voters feel over this issue.

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