A Look At Trump And Epstein's History

What A Day

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🗓️ 22 July 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Despite President Donald Trump's best efforts, his administration can't escape the conspiracies swirling around convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein — conspiracies Trump and his allies helped stoke before he returned to the White House.On Monday, House Speaker Mike Johnson said he would not permit a vote this summer on a non-binding resolution calling for the release of documents and records related to Epstein, who died by suicide in 2019 before his federal sex-trafficking trial. And on Friday, Trump sued The Wall Street Journal for billions of dollars over a story alleging he sent Epstein a lewd birthday card in the early 2000s, when the two were known to be friends. Trump has always denied any knowledge that the disgraced financier was abusing underage girls and young women, but there's no denying the two men frequently hung out together, often in the presence of young, attractive women.Matthew Goldstein, a New York Times business reporter who covers white collar crime, joins us to talk about the backstory of Trump and Epstein's friendship, and why the administration can't make this story go away. And in headlines: Some foreign travelers will have to pay a new $250 fee to enter the U.S. thanks to a provision in Trump's new Big Beautiful Law, a new Human Rights Watch report alleges 'dehumanizing' conditions across immigration detention centers in Florida, and Texas Republicans kicked off a special legislative session to potentially redraw the state's congressional map to help Trump in next year's midterm elections.

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0:00.0	It's Tuesday, July 22nd. I'm Jane Koston, and this is What a Day, the show that is
0:06.9	noting that, according to CBS News, President Donald Trump's approval among 18 to 29-year-olds has gone from
0:12.9	plus 10 in February to minus 44 in July. That's a negative swing of 54 points. Apparently, the youth are not as excited about
0:23.0	masked ICE officers and tax cuts for billionaires as some may have thought.
0:33.1	On today's show, some people visiting the U.S. will need to pay a fee to get in thanks to a provision in Trump's big, beautiful law.
0:40.6	And Texas Republicans are trying to redraw the state's congressional map to help the president in next year's midterm elections.
0:47.0	But let's start with Jeffrey Epstein.
0:49.6	President Donald Trump apparently does not want to talk about convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
0:55.0	When the Wall Street Journal reported on an alleged birthday letter from Trump to Epstein that
0:59.2	featured a nude doodle and a cryptic message last week, Trump sued the paper and its owner,
1:04.5	Rupert Murdoch, and his media company News Corr on Friday for billions of dollars. The White
1:09.8	House also removed a journal reporter from the
1:11.8	press pool for Trump's upcoming trip to Scotland. And the president's allies in Congress are
1:16.4	following suit. Speaker Mike Johnson said Monday that he would not permit the House to vote in a
1:21.0	non-binding resolution, a non-binding resolution, calling for the release of documents and records relating to Epstein,
1:28.9	at least not before the August recess.
1:31.9	Instead, Trump would seemingly rather talk about Rosie O'Donnell,
1:35.2	or changing the name of NFL team, the Washington commanders,
1:38.5	or a conspiracy theory involving former president Barack Obama
1:41.8	and Russian interference in the 2016 election
1:44.0	that the conservative magazine National Review called, quote, frivolous and quote,
1:48.9	thundering claptrap.
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