Trump keeps trying — and failing — to move on from Epstein
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🗓️ 25 July 2025
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| 0:00.0 | One of the things that I really like about politicians is... |
| 0:05.0 | I cannot wait to see where the sentence goes. |
| 0:08.0 | Go ahead. |
| 0:09.0 | Is that they can be very much like actors and that they always know where the camera is. |
| 0:13.0 | Like, I am stage left. I am stage right or whatever. |
| 0:16.0 | And Trump is especially good at that. |
| 0:18.0 | Yesterday, he's touring the Fed, and he's basically criticizing Jerome Powell, the chair of the Fed, |
| 0:24.5 | and he starts speaking. |
| 0:26.4 | And he's like, no, Jerome, come here, come here. |
| 0:28.4 | And he basically puts him directly in the line of the cameras and all of that stuff so that, like, you know, everybody can see as he's kind of given it to Jerome Powell or whatever. So I think |
| 0:39.2 | Trump is just a master at understanding like camera angles and dramatics and art. And the problem with |
| 0:47.8 | like this moment is that he's kind of using everything that he and the press office can do to |
| 0:53.0 | try to deflect or distract or whatever. |
| 0:55.0 | And it's just not working. |
| 0:57.3 | Everybody wakes up and it's like, what's going to happen with this Epstein stuff? |
| 1:05.0 | From the newsroom of The Washington Post, this is Post Report's weekly politics roundtable. |
| 1:10.3 | It's Friday, July 25th. |
| 1:12.5 | I'm Colby Eikowitz. |
| 1:13.6 | I'm joined today by my colleague, White House reporter Cleve Woodson. |
| 1:17.1 | Hey, Cleve. |
| 1:17.7 | Hey, good morning. |
| 1:18.9 | And congressional reporter, Kadiya Gova. |
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