A photo of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, here at a bus stop in London. Photo: Leon Neal / Getty Images
Epstein doesn't stop haunting Trump.
On Wednesday evening, new revelations about the dead pedophile came.
Here are the new details about what is said about Trump in the Epstein files.
Trump's decision on July 7 not to make public the contents of the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein has led to the first major crisis of the MAGA movement.
This goes against Trump's campaign promises to release the Epstein files as part of his promises to "drain the swamp", that is, to clean up Washington's allegedly corrupt elite.
For the first time, Trump's social media was filled with angry and critical posts from his own followers.
In connection with the announcement, Trump told the media that he did not know if his name was in the files.
Trump knew
Now the Wall Street Journal reveals that this is not true.
According to the newspaper's sources, Trump was informed as early as May by the Justice Department that his name was in "a number" of places in the files, along with hundreds of other people, including many other high-profile people.
According to the WSJ, the officials also touched on what is said about Trump.
According to the Justice Department, the files contain a lot of what they perceive as "hearsay" and unverified information about many different people, including Trump, who had been with Epstein for a while.
However, what the claims contain in detail about Trump is not yet known.
The Wall Street Journal emphasizes in its article that it does not mean that something has been done wrong just because you are mentioned in the investigative material.
No contact with Epstein
Trump himself claims that he has not spoken to Epstein in 15 years.
– In fact, the president kicked him out of his club because he was a jerk, White House spokesman Steven Cheung previously told the WSJ.
After Wednesday's revelation, Cheung is counterattacking.
– This is another fake news article, just like the previous article in the Wall Street Journal, he says.
Democrats are furious
Wednesday's revelation prompted the former Democratic speaker of Congress, Nancy Pelosi, to demand that the files be released.
On X, she republishes the WSJ article and writes:
"Release the files."
Democratic Senator Adam Schiff is also demanding that they be released.
“Trump told the media he was not informed that his name was in the Epstein files. Now we are learning that it was a lie. Time to end the Trump/Epstein cover-up. Release the files,” he writes on X.
US President Donald Trump. Photo: Julia Demaree Nikhinson / AP
Republican rebellion
Trump is doing everything he can to shift responsibility from him and his administration.
On Wednesday, his request to release the transcripts of the jury discussions during Epstein’s trials in 2005 and 2007 was denied.
This goes against the practice of the American legal system, and Judge Robin L. Rosenberg tells Axios that “the court’s hands are tied,” something that Trump’s representatives have reportedly known from the beginning.
On Wednesday evening, US time, Trump suffered another setback, when several Republicans voted in favor of a Democratic proposal to call the Justice Department to the House of Representatives to testify under oath about the Epstein files.
Jeffrey Epstein in the courtroom, 2008. Photo: Uma Sanghvi / AP
The Clintons are being subpoenaed
Republicans had previously blocked the subpoena, but the new revelations seem to have swung the pendulum.
On Wednesday, the House of Representatives also voted to subpoena Bill and Hillary Clinton, as well as Epstein's former partner Ghislaine Maxwell, to the House of Representatives about the Epstein files.
She will be questioned from a Florida prison, where she is serving 20 years for her involvement in Epstein's sex trafficking.
Last week's allegations against President Joe Biden came at a timely moment, as it was alleged that Biden was not in his right mind during his last time in the White House.
For a short time, the focus shifted away from the Epstein affair, but now Trump has once again been blackmailed.
Footnote: Last week, Donald Trump sued the WSJ for billions of dollars for their previous revelations about the Epstein files.
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