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The Rich Zeoli Show

Karoline Leavitt Answers Questions About the Epstein Files. But Is It Enough?

The Rich Zeoli Show

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4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 1: 3:05pm- During Thursday’s White House briefing, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was pressed by Fox News reporter Jacqui Heinrich about President Trump’s Truth Social post calling the Epstein files a “hoax.” Heinrich asked, “Can you clarify which part of the Epstein hoax is the hoax part?” Leavitt responded, “The President is referring to the fact that Democrats have now seized on this as if they ever wanted transparency when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein.” But was her answer sufficient—or does the Trump Administration still have more explaining to do? 3:15pm- While speaking with Stuart Varney on Fox Business, Lara Trump called for the Trump Administration to provide more “truth and transparency” with the Jeffrey Epstein case. 3:30pm- Michael Whatley—Chairman of the Republican National Committee—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss his tireless efforts working alongside Republican gubernatorial candidate Jack Ciattarelli. He explains that according to polling “New Jersey is ready for change” and he believes “Jack Ciattarelli is that change agent.” 3:40pm- Listeners call-in to react to the Trump Administration’s handling of the Jeffery Epstein document release. What more can the White House, DOJ, and FBI do to appease MAGA and Americans looking for more answers?

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Okay.

1:04.8

The Epstein controversy, not going away.

1:07.5

Jackie Heinrich asked Caroline Levin about that.

1:09.9

I'll play you the audio clip in just a second,

1:12.2

but that was the first question that Caroline Leavitt was asked today by the White House press

1:17.7

corps, and it was by Jackie Heinrich, specifically what part of the Epstein story is a hoax?

1:25.3

And then Caroline Leavitt expanded on that.

1:29.4

The story's not going away.

1:36.2

The problem here is that there, I mean, this has just been handled so poorly.

1:41.1

And at this point now, when Caroline Levitt was getting follow-up question, she kept referring them to the Attorney General and saying, well, you got to ask the attorney

1:44.4

general, which is what this should have been the entire time. The entire time, it should have

1:50.0

been referred to the attorney general. And the attorney general should have absolutely been the

1:54.1

one handling this the entire time. And the president should have stayed out of it and not called

2:00.0

his supporters weaklings or anything

2:02.8

else or accused him of being stupid or falling for a hoax or any of the other things that he said.

2:09.5

Give it back to Pam Bondi and let them deal with it because one of the other things Caroline Levitt said today was she has the authority that if anything comes out that is relevant, she has the authority to release it.

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