The New York Occasions’ Maggie Haberman identified to CNN’s Kaitlan Collins the stark paradox on the coronary heart of Donald Trump’s response to the Epstein controversy — particularly, that the president himself helps to maintain it alive.
Collins famous that Trump White Home officers and the president’s allies are “stunned” they haven’t been capable of shut down the scandal, given their normal potential to shift the narrative.
Haberman prompt that Trump’s unsolicited admissions about his ties to the late convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein — together with his current declare that Epstein “stole” workers from his Mar-a-Lago resort — are fueling continued curiosity and scrutiny, together with from members of his MAGA base who’re demanding the discharge of federal information on the disgraced financier.
Trump “can’t discover a strategy to cease speaking about it, and in addition doesn’t wanna preserve speaking about it,” Haberman mentioned.
The longtime Trump reporter additionally warned that his use of the phrase “stole” would possible “land very poorly with numerous girls — and definitely numerous girls who had been victims of Jeffrey Epstein.”
“I’m undecided how, once more, offering new info in his personal voice, unsolicited, about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein — I don’t understand how this calms this down,” she added.
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