Trump Press Sec’s Epstein Spin Implodes as New Info Rattles Him Deeply

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

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🗓️ 13 November 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Suddenly, the Jeffrey Epstein files are back. Democrats released new emails raising fresh questions about the relationship between the sex trafficker and President Trump. It’s gotten so bad that the White House is now privately pressuring Republicans to stop trying to get the Epstein files released, a clear sign Trump is deeply rattled by the emerging info. Indeed, now that it looks like the discharge petition calling for release of the files will get 218 votes, Trump angrily warned Republicans not to join it, another indication of his mounting anxiety. The big MAGA reckoning over all this is coming. So we talked to Nicole Hemmer, author of several excellent books about the right wing. She explains the deep tensions inside MAGA all this is unleashing, how some prominent figures are positioning themselves for a post-Trump MAGA future, where this scandal is heading next, and what all this means for our politics. The discussion gets dark. Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:20.0	Delicious. This is the Daily blast from the New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network.
0:36.6	I'm your host, Greg Sargent.
0:46.5	Suddenly, the Jeffrey Epstein files are back in a big way.
0:50.7	House Democrats released some new emails raising fresh questions about the relationship between the sex trafficker and President Trump.
0:58.5	Meanwhile, the White House has been privately pressuring Republicans to stop trying to get the Epstein files released.
1:05.5	And all this forced White House press secretary Caroline Levitt into some really tortured damage control efforts.
1:12.5	The core dynamic here has always been that at some point, whatever is in the Epstein files
1:18.1	involving Trump is going to come out, and at some point, MAGA will have to have some sort of
1:23.6	reckoning with that. Are we there yet? Maybe. Today we're unraveling all this with one of the
1:29.7	best commentators on the right wing out there, historian Nicole Hammer, author of several books on the
1:35.0	topic. Nicole, always good to have you on. Great to be back, Greg. So let's start with what these
1:40.2	Democrats released. In a 2011 email, Epstein wrote to his accomplice, Gillen Maxwell,
1:46.6	that one of his victims, quote, spent hours at my house with Trump. In 2019, Epstein wrote this
1:54.3	about Trump to a journalist, quote, of course he knew about the girls as he asked Gillen to stop.
2:01.6	Nicole, none of this proves what Trump did or didn't do,
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