Best of the Daily Blast: Trump Accidentally Wrecks His Own Epstein Lie as Musk Goes for Jugular
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Chris Cotnoir
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🗓️ 26 December 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 1:24.1 | Speaking to reporters from abroad, President Trump rambled at his greatest length yet about the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. |
| 1:27.1 | But his argument actually undermined itself. He claimed to know about elite Democrats and liberals |
| 1:30.6 | who had gone to visit Epstein, but all that does is raise the question that won't go away. |
| 1:37.0 | If this is what the Epstein files would actually reveal, then why isn't Donald Trump ordering |
| 1:42.6 | their release? |
| 1:52.1 | What makes this all worse for Trump right now is that Elon Musk just came out and attacked Trump on a real point of vulnerability in this whole scandal, |
| 1:56.2 | all of which confirms that none of this is sustainable for Trump. |
| 2:04.8 | Jennifer Rubin, editor-in-chief of the contrarian, recently wrote a good piece laying out why Trump should be panicking over this scandal. |
| 2:08.4 | And everything we've been seeing underscores that point. |
| 2:10.8 | So we're talking to Jen about all this today. |
| 2:12.1 | Good to have you on, Jen. |
| 2:13.8 | Nice to be here. |
| 2:19.2 | So a quick reminder on the latest, Trump's Deputy attorney general, Todd Blanche, has now twice interviewed Epstein's accomplice Galane Maxwell, who's doing time for sex trafficking. |
| 2:26.2 | This raises the possibility that Blanche, who was Trump's personal attorney, is trying to get Maxwell |
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