Trump's $20 billion Epstein gamble
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🗓️ 21 July 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump has filed two defamation suits of ten billion dollars each against Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal. The newspaper claimed Trump sent a lurid birthday note to the grim dead paedophile Jeffrey Epstein - something Trump has vehemently denied. Why is Trump trying to kill the Epstein story now? And why won’t his MAGA base let it die?
Later, has environment secretary Steve Reed really stopped water bosses bonuses? Or are they just taking home their millions in a different way?
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.0 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:14.2 | Breaking news that we're following. |
| 0:16.0 | The Wall Street Journal is reporting that President Donald Trump sent the late convicted sex offender, |
| 0:21.5 | Jeffrey Epstein, a body letter for his birthday. |
| 0:24.8 | The breaking news this morning, trying to relieve the pressure, a major sign that President |
| 0:30.2 | Trump is feeling the heat of the controversy surrounding his administration's handling of the |
| 0:34.5 | Jeffrey Epstein case. |
| 0:35.6 | Filing a lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal and its parent companies, and the former |
| 0:40.4 | head of Fox News, the actual court document, has not yet been made available to us. |
| 0:45.0 | But all of this is over that Wall Street Journal report that he denies. |
| 0:49.6 | Trump is facing fresh scrutiny over his ties, his relationship to Jeffrey Epstein after the Wall Street |
| 0:57.4 | Journal broke this story about a birthday card he apparently drew for the convicted pedophile. |
| 1:05.2 | It is all leading to one of the most explosive court cases we've seen yet. And it's not helping Trump at all. |
| 1:13.6 | We've seen Donald Trump fall out with Elon Musk, the world's richest man. |
| 1:17.6 | He's now falling out with the world's most powerful media mogul. |
| 1:22.6 | But Rupert Murdoch looks like he doesn't want to blink. |
| 1:26.6 | He's going to fight Trump all the way on this. |
| 1:30.2 | And that could do Donald Trump a huge amount of damage. |
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| 1:41.7 | It's John. |
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