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Blackvegetable » Today, 8:38 am » wrote: ↑

Today, 8:38 am

Now, however, Trump’s most senior advisers had gathered — without him — to figure out how to gain some measure of control over a very different kind of crisis threatening to engulf the presidency: the Epstein files. 

Ten days earlier, the Justice Department and the F.B.I. had jointly released a memo that bluntly stated that their review had found no “client list” of powerful men for whom the notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein had allegedly procured underage girls and young women. Intended to put to rest years of speculation and end the pressure campaign to release the voluminous material in the department’s possession, the memo instead had the opposite effect, setting off a backlash that was notably loud among the MAGA base. 

And it was about to get worse: The Wall Street Journal was preparing a damaging article about Trump’s relationship with Epstein. The president’s desperate attempts to kill the story had failed. His team now had to get everyone onto the same page about how to counter the growing swarm of attention. They needed a gesture of transparency to appease an increasingly angry base, but also a way to convey the message that the president was sympathetic to his supporters’ concerns. Which itself was a problem, because he clearly wasn’t

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/maga ... e-doj.html

Cleaning up the puppy's mess.....as it sits in a corner, tweeting.

In 4 years of biden doing nothing about epstein, how many stories did the NYT run on the topic?

Okay - not a fiar question, because joey's tiny base gave not one **** about baby rapers getting away with it - so it wasn't an issue for him.