‘You’ve Got to Be Kidding Me!’ Trump Hangs Up on CNN Reporter After Just 30 Seconds as He’s Asked About ‘New’ Epstein Photos
President Donald Trump hung up on CNN reporter Andrew Kaczynski after just 30 seconds Tuesday when the journalist called to ask about resurfaced images showing Jeffrey Epstein at the president’s 1993 wedding to his second wife, Marla Maples.
The photos, released by CNN’s KFile, show Epstein at Trump’s Plaza Hotel wedding and socializing with Trump and his children at a Harley-Davidson Cafe event that same year.
Speaking about the photos on Tuesday night, CNN anchor Erin Burnett said the material had “never been seen” before and forms part of a broader archival review, framing the reporting as exclusive.
Kaczynski, however, admitted in his article that the photos were available on Google Images and content library Shutterstock. He argued their renewed significance in that they “have not been widely reported and pre-date any of Epstein’s known legal issues.”
Speaking with Burnett after his article dropped, Kaczynski revealed he had called the president directly before publishing but that Trump shut the conversation down quickly:
We were not on the phone very long. I think our call was about 30 seconds or so. But when I asked him about the wedding photo, he said he sort of paused for a second and then said, ‘you’ve got to be kidding me’ before calling CNN ‘fake news’ and then hanging up on me.
White House Communications Director Steven Cheung followed up with the following statement: “These are nothing more than out-of-context frame grabs of innocuous videos and pictures of widely attended events to disgustingly infer something nefarious.”
He continued: “The fact is that the President kicked him out of his club for being a creep. This is nothing more than a continuation of the fake news stories concocted by the Democrats and the liberal media.”
While no charges have ever been brought against Trump in relation to Epstein, the president’s past associations with the convicted pedophile have come under renewed scrutiny as pressure piles on his administration to release the Epstein files.
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