For Trump, Epstein Is the Story That Won't Go Away

For Trump, Epstein Is the Story That Won’t Go Away

President Trump is being held captive to a news cycle he can’t avoid or defeat when it comes to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/us/politics/trump-epstein-files.html

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Mr. Trump has sought to distract from the files, complaining that the public should focus instead on his administration’s successes. He ordered Republicans to stop talking about them. He tried to bully House Republicans into killing their effort to get them released. When his attempts failed, an increasingly frustrated Mr. Trump threatened primary campaigns against G.O.P. members who cross him, and even accused one of his biggest supporters of being a “traitor.”

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With Mr. Trump set to lose a vote in the House over the release of the files, the president on Sunday reluctantly embraced the legislation to call on his own administration to release the documents it was withholding. Mr. Trump made clear he was doing so only grudgingly, still referring to the files as nothing more than a “hoax.” Mr. Trump has denied any involvement in or knowledge of Mr. Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation.

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Mr. Massie said he had little optimism of forcing the release of the files when he started the effort, but Republican women rallied around the cause. Representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, Lauren Boebert of Colorado and Nancy Mace of South Carolina were some of the most committed supporters, crossing the president and demanding any information from the files that could shed light on the abuse of women and girls.

“They were pressured in ways that you cannot even imagine, and they stood strong, and that’s why we’re here today,” Mr. Massie said. “They didn’t take us seriously over at the executive branch or in the Senate, because they always thought they could flip one of these women, they could convince them or control them, or intimidate them into taking their names off of this petition, but they did not succeed.”

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Remember: EPSTEIN, EPSTEIN, EPSTEIN!!!