Why don't Americans trust Trump on Epstein?
The News Agents - USA
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🗓️ 6 August 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Trump's inner circle are heading to the Vice President's residence for what was supposed to be a secret summit to discuss the administration's strategy regarding the Epstein crisis that has engulfed the President.
Polling shows that the American public are increasingly convinced that Trump is hiding something, and CNN says his team are now weighing up whether to publish recordings of the interview with Ghislaine Maxwell and the deputy attorney general Todd Blanche.
JD Vance has insisted the President has been "transparent" about Epstein, but Trump's recent actions suggest a man desperate to move the conversation on. He appeared on the White House roof in surreal scenes, shouting answers to the press about lavish plans to build a ballroom on the estate. And in Texas, his Republican allies are now pursuing Democrats resisting efforts to carve up the electoral map in the State -- with calls to get the FBI involved in tracking them down and forcing them back to the State legislature.
What will it take for Donald Trump to get out of the political quagmire he has created - and which is now damaging his project?
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents USA Podcast is brought to you by HSBC, UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
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| 0:15.6 | Mr. President, where you're doing up there? |
| 0:18.2 | Taking a little more. |
| 0:20.8 | Come out and talk to us. That is Donald Trump on the roof of the White House. |
| 0:28.4 | He looks bizarre. |
| 0:29.9 | I mean, at a passing glance, it looks absolutely mad. |
| 0:34.2 | But it is part of a carefully constructed walkabout with security detail to see the site |
| 0:41.2 | beneath him, which will soon be housing the White House ballroom. Yeah, the intention is to spend |
| 0:47.8 | $200 million from donors, not US taxpayers, to create a kind of ballroom like he's got at Mara Lago on the White House estate. |
| 0:58.1 | I mean, tempting to say fiddler on the roof, but may be given his problems with Jeffrey Epstein, |
| 1:04.0 | this is an attempt at diversion. |
| 1:07.0 | More cat on a hot tin roof. |
| 1:09.9 | Welcome to the Newsagents USA. It's John. It's Emily. Where are you? |
| 1:21.3 | I've run away. I've actually run away from you for one whole month. But I'm here in spirit and indeed, well, in voice. |
| 1:29.7 | Well, it's very nice to see you. Look, we've got to start with the Council of War. I don't know how |
| 1:35.0 | else to describe it that is taking place later today at J.D. Vance's residence in Washington, D.C. |
| 1:43.4 | With the president, with the president's chief of staff, |
| 1:46.9 | Susie Wael, apparently Pam Bondi, the Attorney General, apparently Cash Patel, the FBI |
| 1:51.6 | director, and even the deputy attorney general, who of course went and saw Gilae Maxwell, |
| 1:58.0 | with one subject. What the hell are we going to do about this mess? Because this mess |
| 2:02.9 | is now engulfing the Trump presidency and every attempt to deflect and to get people looking |
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