Maggie Haberman Astonished That Trump Keeps Fueling Epstein Speculation: ‘He Can’t Find a Way To Stop Talking About It’
CNN commentator Maggie Haberman was at a loss to explain why President Donald Trump has been unable to stop fueling speculation about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.
Trump has faced a barrage of questions about his late friend and sex trafficker after his Department of Justice declined to release the highly touted Epstein documents in its possession. As expected, reporters keep asking Trump about the files and his relationship with Epstein. Although the president has repeatedly tried to dodge questions about it, he has made several inexplicable moves that have kept Epstein in the news cycle and fueled speculation.
Among these are: Trump’s decision to sue The Wall Street Journal for reporting that Trump sent Epstein a birthday card in 2003, a claim Trump denies; the DOJ dispatching Deputy Attorney General and former Trump criminal attorney Todd Blanche to interview former Epstein associate and convicted child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell in prison; Trump not ruling out a pardon for Maxwell; Trump’s claim that Epstein “stole” a teenage Mar-a-Lago employee named Virginia Giuffre, whom Epstein sex-trafficked.
On Wednesday’s edition of The Source, Haberman said that administration officials have Epstein “fatigue.”
“But not just fatigue with Democrats talking about it or podcasters talking about it, or Joe Rogan talking about it, the president himself keeps talking about it,” she said. “He provided, on Air Force One yesterday on his way back from Europe, new information that had not been heard before. He has been telling a specific story about a break with Jeffrey Epstein for many, many years. And now he started talking about how Jeffrey Epstein, quote unquote, ‘stole’ workers who were extremely young women, at least in one case, from his employ at Mar-a-Lago. So, that is helping keep this alive, too.”
Host Kaitlan Collins then played clips of reporters shouting questions at Trump about Epstein “stealing” women from him.
“Obviously, he has the prerogative to answer whatever questions he wants or not answer them,” Collins said. “But it is notable when he engages on Air Force One, and he’s telling these stories about his history with him and then not answering the follow-ups about what exactly happened.”
“Look, I think that he can’t find a way to stop talking about it, and also doesn’t wanna keep talking about it,” Haberman responded. “I will say, Kaitlan, the word ‘stole’ is going to land very poorly with a lot of women and certainly a lot of women who were victims of Jeffrey Epstein. And so, I’m not sure how, again, providing new information in his own voice, unsolicited, about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, I don’t know how this calms this down.”
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