Maggie Haberman Confronts Leavitt Over Trump Denial On Bombshell Epstein Letter
New York Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberman confronted Trump White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt about President Donald Trump’s denials amid the new bombshell revelations of a letter to deceased sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein.
The now-infamous “Birthday Book” note that Trump sued the Wall Street Journal over was released by the House Oversight Committee on Monday. Trump had previously denied writing the note, and the White House continues to do so by claiming the signature is not his.
At Tuesday’s White House press briefing, Haberman confronted Leavitt over the denial, repeatedly asking her to explain “what’s the theory” behind the forgery claim:
MAGGIE HABERMAN: Karoline, thank you. I want to follow up on something you said. You said the Epstein documents are a hoax that Democrats are perpetrating against the president.
You’ve said he didn’t sign the check, that he didn’t sign the birthday card that he allegedly signed.
So what is the theory, since these documents came from the Epstein estate? Who is, I guess in your view, faking these documents?
KAROLINE LEAVITT: I did not say the documents are a hoax, I said the entire narrative surrounding Jeffrey Epstein right now that is absorbing many of the liberal cable channels on television is a hoax that is being perpetuated by opportunistic Democrats like Ro Khanna and the others whom you saw on that press conference outside of Capitol Hill who are trying to push this against the President of the United States.
MAGGIE HABERMAN: Is the hoax. I’m just trying to understand what’s fake, what’s fake is not the documents, then?
KAROLINE LEAVITT: The hoax is the Democrats pretending to care about victims of crime when they do not care about victims of crime, when they have done nothing to solve crime, when they have nothing to lock up child pedophiles and child rapists across the country.
And when they are now using victims as political props to try and, again, smear the President of the United States and drag on this bad story about him. It is a distraction.
The Democrats view this story as nothing more than an attempt to distract from the accomplishments and the achievements of this administration. And that is what we mean when we call it a hoax.
MAGGIE HABERMAN: If you said he didn’t sign the birthday card, he didn’t do this, he also didn’t do the check. Those were in documents from the estate, so what is the working theory as to why he’s in them?
KAROLINE LEAVITT: The President has one of the most famous signatures in the world, and he has for many, many years.
You know that, Maggie, you’ve covered him for a long time, long before he assumed this office, when he was a businessman in New York.
The President did not write that letter. He did not sign those documents. He maintains that position, and that position will be argued in court by his lawyers. The President is very confident he is going to win this case.
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