Key Epstein Investigative Journalist Dings MSNBC Framing On Trump’s Connection to Epstein

President Donald Trump speaks with reporters during a meeting with Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Friday, Nov. 7, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

The Miami Herald journalist who has been essential to uncovering the Jeffrey Epstein case over the years took issue with MSNBC’s framing of the recently revealed Epstein documents and the mention of President Donald Trump’s name.

Julie K. Brown, whose bombshell story on allegations against Epstein reignited the case against the already-registered pedophile, took to X on Thursday morning to ding MSNBC for referring to Trump’s name appearing in Epstein documents “multiple times.” Thousands of new documents related to Epstein were released by Congress this week, with Trump’s name being mentioned by his former friend in communications.

Epstein died of an apparent suicide while facing sex trafficking charges in 2019. Trump’s Department of Justice denied earlier this year that Epstein was sex trafficking women for others, despite claims by alleged victims and his longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell currently serving 20 years for sex trafficking, something DOJ said at the time she did in coordination with Epstein.

“Donald Trump’s name is referenced in these documents THOUSANDS of times. Not ‘multiple’ — not ‘hundreds’ — but thousands of times,” Brown wrote in a tweet that included a screenshot of Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) on Morning Joe earlier that day. “This doesn’t implicate him in any wrongdoing -/ but it does show that, to some extent, Trump was front and center in Jeffrey Epstein’s world.”

The chyron in the screenshot shared by Brown referenced Trump being mentioned in the new emails “multiple times.”

As Brown noted, none of the communications directly implicate Trump in any wrongdoing, but they’ve brought to light new questions about his relationship to Epstein.

In the MSNBC segment in question, Raskin accused the Justice Department of “deliberately withholding” on Epstein.

“Well, the thing that really struck me so intensely yesterday was all of these emails saying things like, ‘Of course, Trump knew about the girls and tried to get Maxwell to stop,’ and we don’t know if that means to stop stealing girls from Trump at his hotel and taking them into their operation, or stop being involved with Epstein,” Raskin said. “We don’t exactly know what it means.”