CNN Reporter Lists Off ALL the Topics Trump Has Been Posting About to Distract From Epstein
CNN White House reporter Kristen Holmes joined Manu Raju on Monday to discuss President Donald Trump’s wild weekend of social media posts and went through the lengthy list of attacks and grievances Trump vented in order to “talk about literally anything else other than Jeffrey Epstein.”
Raju discussed the ongoing fallout in the MAGA world over the Trump administration’s conclusion that the Epstein conspiracy theories are all false and added, “That’s the story, of course, that has driven the news for weeks, but much safer political terrain for his base.”
“There was the Russia investigation, former President Barack Obama, and alleging corruption in that White House. Is it a strategy or just the president’s weekend musings? Well, we have CNN’s Kristen Holmes here to break that down for us. So, Kristen, what were you hearing from inside the White House this weekend?” Raju asked.
“Yeah, Manu, I think it’s somewhere in the middle there, somewhere between an actual strategy and the president’s musings. We know that President Trump wants to talk about literally anything else other than Jeffrey Epstein. You kind of saw that today and throughout the weekend as he posted on almost every topic imaginable: cashless bail, Adam Schiff, at one point touting Mark Levin’s book,” Holmes replied, adding:
He posted memes of Democrats in jumpsuits, a rant about a Wall Street Journal article not related to Jeffrey Epstein, but instead one that indicated that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent had told him not to fire Jerome Powell.
That seemed to very much get under his skin, saying he’s the one who tells his team what to do, not the other way around. And then, of course, as you mentioned, this entire rant — multiple posts about the Washington Commanders threatening not to make a deal on their new stadium unless they went back to the Washington Redskins. This is a little bit of a different turn from what we have seen from the end of the week. We had seen really several weeks of the White House and President Trump completely on the defensive. President Trump is not good on the defensive.
But when this Wall Street Journal story came out at the end of the week that alleged this birthday letter, with him coming out against that story, with him filing a lawsuit, the White House felt like they were on the offensive. And of course, as we know, he ordered the attorney general to unseal that grand jury testimony, but there are still questions about what more he can do, and those questions are coming from his MAGA base and his loyalists. And I can tell you that a few of his allies have even asked me if I can get a question to the president in a briefing or to the press secretary or shout a question at him about why he’s not doing more.
And so this might have tied some of these people over for the short term, but there are a lot of questions still because there’s a really overarching belief that there’s not going to be that much information in that grand jury testimony. So now people are wondering and they’re starting to push for more information. So, you know, long story short, Manu, this story’s not going away.
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