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Anderson Cooper 360

President Trump Reframes Epstein Case As Democratic "Hoax"

Anderson Cooper 360

CNN

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4.13.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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President Trump continues to face blowback from within his own base over the Justice Department's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case. Now he says questions about the case and all the action against him by Democrats over the years are “all the same hoax." Award-winning investigative reporter Julie K. Brown, of The Miami Herald, has been digging into the Epstein saga from the beginning. She's also the author of "Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story”. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Tonight on 360, President Trump calls his own supporters, raising doubts about the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, weaklings and stupid his words.

0:41.3

And now he says he wants the Epstein case investigated as a Democratic hoax with himself the victim.

0:47.3

Also tonight Senator Bernie Sanders joins me with the Senate voting on making steep doge spending cuts official and one Republican center, seemingly

0:54.4

having second thoughts of some aspects of the massive tax and cut spending bill the Republicans

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enough to feed a million and a half children for a week, rotting in a warehouse and now about

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to be destroyed.

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Good evening. Thanks for joining us tonight. After hyping the Jeffrey Epstein investigation for months and some of his supporters for years, then trying and failing to make it all go away,

1:20.7

the president seems now all in on the next new thing. He is reframing it as a democratic hoax

1:26.6

and not what lengthy investigations and prosecutions have shown it to be.

1:30.8

Here's what John Solomon asked him tonight on something called Real America's Voice along with his answer.

1:37.1

The FBI under Cash Patel has opened a grand conspiracy case looking at the last decade of weaponization against you and the protection

1:45.1

of Democrats like Hunter Biden and Hillary Clinton as one ongoing criminal conspiracy.

1:49.6

I want to ask what you think of that approach and whether you think a special prosecutor

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