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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Wed Dec 24, 2025, 09:12 PM Dec 2025

'It's perpetuated this news cycle': Frustration mounts in Trump's orbit about messaging on latest Epstein documents

When the Justice Department released a first batch of Jeffrey Epstein files on Friday that included photographs of former President Bill Clinton, White House officials raced to amplify the importance of the new documents.

But days later, amid a second trove that contains several references to President Donald Trump, the White House is pushing a different view: Don’t believe everything you see.

Trump officials on Tuesday downplayed the latest disclosure of more than 30,000 files related to Epstein, dismissing the significance of the materials and suggesting that some that mentioned Trump were unverified or even outright fabricated. Even as the rest of Washington pored over records showing Trump repeatedly flew on Epstein’s plane, White House aides sought to highlight other matters the president is more eager to talk about.

The messaging shift — the latest in a largely unsuccessful effort by the administration to seize control of the story — has spawned frustration in Trump’s orbit and parts of the White House, where some saw the scrambled response over the last few days as just the latest stumble in a year of Epstein-related blunders and baffling communications mishaps.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/perpetuated-news-cycle-frustration-mounts-090058923.html

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'It's perpetuated this news cycle': Frustration mounts in Trump's orbit about messaging on latest Epstein documents (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 2025 OP
Don't forget, it's all REPUBLICANS in the White House BOSSHOG Dec 2025 #1

BOSSHOG

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1. Don't forget, it's all REPUBLICANS in the White House
Wed Dec 24, 2025, 09:43 PM
Dec 2025

Oh yeah there’s pics of Bill Clinton. Thats not pics of Donald Trump. Someone must have sabotaged the report. Gosh, the White House staff are so frustrated having to deal with the truth. Herr Miller said it wouldn’t be this way.

And trump continues doing his latest magic trick, distancing himself from himself.

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