'Real panic in the White House': Trump's base fractures over handling of Epstein files

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🗓️ 14 July 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Attendees of Turning Point USA’s Student Action Summit erupted in boos over the Trump administration’s handling of files related to the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Meanwhile, the president over weekend publicly defended AG Pam Bondi's handling of the Epstein case.

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0:00.0	That Jeffrey Epstein's story is a big deal.
0:04.8	Please do not let that story go.
0:06.9	Who has Jeffrey Epstein's Blackbook?
0:09.7	Blackbook?
0:10.2	FBI.
0:11.9	But who?
0:13.9	That is, I mean, there's...
0:15.7	Oh, that's under direct control of the director of the FBI.
0:19.6	What the hell of the House Republicans doing?
0:21.8	They have the majority.
0:23.2	You can't get the list.
0:25.1	Put on your big boy pants and let us know who the pedophiles are.
0:28.8	Would you declassify the Epstein files?
0:31.6	Yeah.
0:32.1	Yeah, I would.
0:33.1	All right.
0:33.5	I guess I would.
0:34.4	I think that less so because, you know, you don't know. You don't want to affect people's lives if it's phony stuff in there because it's a lot of phony stuff with that whole world. But I think I would.
0:45.1	This isn't about Epstein or 9-11 or JFK or RFK or RFK. It is, but it isn't. It's about a bigger thing. If you're lying about that, you're lying about everything.
0:55.6	Who's on the Epstein tapes, folks?
0:59.2	Who's on those tapes?
1:00.2	Who's in those black books?
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