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The Briefing with Jen Psaki

Epstein blunder exposes Trump as the 'unaccountable elite' his supporters sent him to attack

The Briefing with Jen Psaki

NBC News

News, Politics

4.5664 Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

A key element of Jeffrey Epstein conspiracy theories is that Epstein's friends and "clients" are wealthy elites who commit horrible crimes against underage girls but never get in trouble for it because of their elite status. And so, key to Donald Trump's support is the idea that he would bring accountability to those elites. Jen Psaki argues, now that Trump is apparently standing in the way of the release of information about the Epstein case, Trump is being recognized as the unaccountable elite he actually is and has always been.

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0:00.0

That is all in on this Tuesday night. The briefing of Jen Saki starts right now. Good evening, Jen.

0:04.7

Hey, Chris. You're just listening to that conversation is just reminding me. We've gone all down

0:09.5

the rabbit hole, or I did this weekend to all of the old Epstein footage that Trump is involved in,

0:15.7

answering questions. You've done this on your show. There's a lot. I mean, pages and pages and

0:20.4

pages of stuff.

0:39.8

I forgot about some of it, to be totally honest. And we're going to piece a bunch of it together. But yeah, you've talked about a lot of on your show. At the same time, this goes to your last conversation, there's a lot of other stuff going on in the world and a lot of other things that Trump's failing at. Yes. And the thing about Epstein that just drove me nuts in the campaign in 2024 was, as I like to joke, if you're a one-issue Jeffrey Epstein voter, Donald Trump's

0:45.6

not your guy, right? Like, if you're like, I really hate Jeffrey Epstein. I want to vote for the

0:49.6

candidate as nothing to do with him. Like, that was Kamala Harris in that race. And somehow they

0:53.4

managed to like pull off this insane 180 inversion. And I think it's coming back to bite him now.

0:58.7

I think it is biting hard and it's hurting. No question about it. We'll have a good night,

1:04.0

Chris. Thanks, Jen. All right. So as we were just talking about, Donald Trump is incredibly uncomfortable right now.

1:13.7

I mean, part of it is his base is biting him, not literally, but figuratively out there pretty much every day.

1:19.5

For the first time in a very long time, he seems completely out of step with his most loyal, most vocal supporters.

1:33.3

I mean, it's been a full nine days since the Justice Department effectively declared case closed in the matter of Jeffrey Epstein. Trump's smack a base is still in open revolt.

1:38.3

In some ways, it's kind of getting worse by the day.

1:40.3

And his desperate plea to his followers, urging them all to just drop it and move on,

1:46.1

has clearly backfired in a way he did not expect. And within minutes of firing off that post,

1:53.1

his once loyal supporters were pelting him with criticism, almost immediately, on his own

1:59.5

social media site. On his own social media site,

2:02.7

he was actually ratioed for probably the first time ever on his own social media site.

2:07.5

And it's not, though, just people spouting off on true social. His little buddy, Mike Johnson,

2:12.8

who is ever the loyalist, ever waiting to be asked how told how high he should jump. His faithful

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