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The Briefing with Jen Psaki

Trump's Epstein turmoil triggers MAGA meltdown

The Briefing with Jen Psaki

NBC News

News, Politics

4.5664 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Jen Psaki reports on how the Trump administration's insistence that there is no worthwhile information to be released from the files on notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein is not sitting well with supporters who believed the many stories spun by now-serving members of the administration. And that discontent is reportedly also seeping into the administration.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Today, Deputy FBI Director Dan Vonjino apparently did not show up to work.

0:04.8

And at this point, we really have no idea if he will be back at work on Monday, as I was just saying to Chris.

0:09.9

And if not, whether he's gone for good or whether anyone else from this Trump-era soap opera will be exiting with him.

0:16.8

Who knows? We'll see.

0:18.4

And if there's anything we learn over the next hour, and you never know, we may, we will

0:22.6

be sure to let you know, I promise.

0:24.6

And we don't know exactly where Dan Bongino was.

0:28.6

We do have a pretty good sense of why he went MIA.

0:31.6

And before we get into all the nitty gritty here, I know you've probably been following a lot of it,

0:35.6

but let me just say this is a very messy,

0:39.2

dysfunctional MAGA family drama. It involves hurt feelings and big personalities. And I would say

0:46.2

some important lessons about what can happen when you're in a party with a growing addiction

0:50.3

to conspiracy theorists and making sure they love you. So I just want to go back to the

0:55.5

beginning of the second Trump administration because it's important here. I mean, the Maga Faithful

1:00.7

were eager to finally get their hands on all the secret Jeffrey Epstein files that they had led

1:06.0

themselves to believe were purposely being hidden from them from all the evil people in the Biden

1:10.7

administration,

1:11.3

I suppose. Files that were convinced, they were convinced would implicate members of the deep

1:16.7

state in child sex trafficking and in murdering Epstein to cover it all up. That was the theory,

1:22.6

right? And one of the people Trump appointed to a major role in the FBI was this guy.

1:29.4

You hear about this Jeffrey Epstein thing that apparently 170 plus people on his client list may be outed in the coming days.

1:37.3

I can't wait for that.

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