Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein
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President Donald Trump’s base vigorously defended him in the wake of a Thursday Wall Street Journal report that he wrote a sexually suggestive letter to Jeffrey Epstein for his 50th birthday, with some claiming the alleged letter doesn’t sound like the president.
New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart join John Yang to discuss the week in politics, including the MAGA debate over releasing the Epstein files intensifies and congressional Republicans deliver Trump a win by clawing back $9 billion in foreign aid and public media funding.
The lawsuit accuses the newspaper and its parent company of libel after it published an article about a lewd letter bearing Trump’s name among the birthday notes collected as a gift for Jeffrey Epstein’s 50th birthday.
U.S. President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit on Friday against Dow Jones, News Corp, Rupert Murdoch and two Wall Street Journal reporters, raising claims under federal libel law, court records show. A copy of the complaint was not immediately available.
MAGA podcaster Benny Johnson said President Trump is making a huge political blunder by calling the Jeffrey Epstein scandal a "hoax." "Nobody had ever heard of Bill Clinton on a predator island before Donald Trump brought it up,
With Pres. Trump under pressure from some of his own supporters, the DOJ asked courts to unseal grand jury records in the case of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.