There is a missing piece at the center of the president’s legal claims against The Wall Street Journal—and sooner or later, someone may have to produce it.
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The Justice Department is trying another tact to quell MAGA rage over the Epstein files.
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By The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent
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President Trump’s propagandists are getting more frantic in their efforts to spin away the scandal around the Jeffrey Epstein files. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, unsurprisingly, has been the most creative of all. Speaking to reporters, Leavitt fobbed the whole fiasco off onto the FBI not once but twice, as videos posted by Acyn Torabi show. Leavitt said the same thing twice: You should ask the FBI. That’s plainly an effort to shift this mess to FBI Director Kash Patel. All this comes as Trump’s approval ratings have just hit a new low. And those things are related: The Epstein scandal is perfectly suited to damaging Trump in all kinds of hidden ways. We talked to data analyst G. Elliott Morris, author of a new piece on the Epstein mess for his Strength in Numbers Substack. He explains why Trump is at a low point in the polling averages, how the Epstein fiasco is being perceived by voters, and why it’s uniquely suited to striking at the heart of Trump’s political strength. Listen to this episode here. A transcript is here.
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