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The Briefing with Jen Psaki

TRUMP TRAIN WRECK: Wheels come off as Trump throws crash out tantrum over Epstein files

The Briefing with Jen Psaki

NBC News

News, Politics

4.5664 Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Jen Psaki reports on Donald Trump's spiraling freak-out over the public interest in the investigation files on notorious pedophile and close friend of Trump, Jeffrey Epstein, with Trump going so far as to condemn his own followers as "stupid," and attempting to somehow blame his involvement with Epstein on Democrats.

Transcript

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0:00.0

There is a ton of news coming in tonight.

0:03.4

We've just learned that Maureen Comey, James Comey's daughter and longtime DOJ prosecutor in the Southern District of New York,

0:09.0

who worked on the cases against Jeffrey Epstein and Galane Maxwell, has been fired.

0:14.1

We're going to get into all of that with Senator Adam Schiff and Congressman Rokana in just a moment.

0:18.4

But I want to start tonight with some of the very strange

0:22.4

behavior we are seeing from the president. We don't know that Donald Trump has always been

0:27.5

far, far from a normal guy. That's one way of describing it. I mean, his behavior is often erratic.

0:33.4

His public statements can be completely bizarre. And at times he doesn't seem to know what is going on inside his own government.

0:40.1

But recently, it seems like he is, well, not at all okay, I guess is one way to describe it.

0:45.9

Let me show you what I mean.

0:47.3

Yesterday, Trump attended an AI summit in Pittsburgh, and within 10 minutes of taking the microphone,

0:53.0

he launched into an utterly strange

0:55.5

digression about his uncle and the notorious domestic terrorists of all people, Ted Kaczynski,

1:01.2

better known as the Unabom. My uncle was at MIT, one of the great professors, 51 years, whatever,

1:09.1

who was the longest serving professor in the history of MIT.

1:12.7

Kaczynski was one of his students. Do you know who Kaczynski was? There's very little difference

1:17.1

between a madman and a genius. But Kaczynski, I said, what kind of a student was the

1:22.3

Uncle John, Dr. John Trump? He said, what kind of a student? Then he said, seriously good. He said he'd

1:29.7

go around correcting everybody, but it didn't work out too well for him. I love the look on the

1:36.9

face of the guy next to him. You can sort of see in that video. But again, to sum that up,

1:41.6

Trump says his uncle taught the Unabomber at MIT, and apparently the question

1:45.7

of all the possible questions Trump asked him was what kind of a student Kaczynski was.

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