The mainstream press remains fixated on the idea that President Donald Trump is personally named in the so-called Epstein files.
The latest iteration of that fixation came Wednesday, when the Wall Street Journal ran a report alleging that Attorney General Pam Bondi told the president in May that he’s mentioned in the files.
“When Justice Department officials reviewed what Attorney General Pam Bondi called a ‘truckload’ of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein earlier this year, they discovered that Donald Trump’s name appeared multiple times,” the Journal reported, citing senior administration officials.
“In May, Bondi and her deputy informed the president at a meeting in the White House that his name was in the Epstein files, the officials said. Many other high-profile figures were also named, Trump was told. Being mentioned in the records isn’t a sign of wrongdoing,” the Journal added.
Following the publication of the Journal’s report, Democrats like Rep. Adam Schiff rushed to capitalize on it:
Trump told the press he was not informed that his name was in the Epstein files.
Now we learn that this was a lie. He was told by Bondi, his former criminal defense lawyer and now the AG.
Time to end the Trump/Epstein cover-up. Release the files. pic.twitter.com/pDyjt27i96
— Adam Schiff (@SenAdamSchiff) July 23, 2025
“Wait, do you guys think this is why they are withholding the documents?!” Rep. Greg Landsman, another Democrat, tweeted.
“Donald Trump is the biggest swamp monster of them all right now,” Democrat Rep. Jason Crow added. “Release the Epstein files.”
“Release the files,” former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi likewise wrote.
The Trump administration scoffed at the report.
Department of Justice spokesperson Gates McGavick called the story “a collection of falsehoods and innuendo designed to push a bullshit narrative and drive clicks.”
This is a collection of falsehoods and innuendo designed to push a bullshit narrative and drive clicks https://t.co/PjMOcOOWCt
— Gates McGavick (@GatesMcgavick) July 23, 2025
White House spokesperson Steven Cheung told Axios that the story “is nothing more than a continuation of the fake news stories concocted by the Democrats and the liberal media.”
Meanwhile, over at CNN, host Abby Phillip bought the Journal’s story hook, line, and sinker.
At one point during a discussion Wednesday evening, she asked network conservative Scott Jennings why the president doesn’t “just own up” to being in the files.
“He [the president] attacked his own base for caring about this,” she began. “He called them stupid and weak, he said he didn’t want their support, and it all seems that that is because he knew something was in there that was incriminating to him.”
“At the end of the day, I mean, if he’s in the files, just like a lot of the other people who might be in there because they associated with Epstein at one point, just own up to it. Why doesn’t he just do that?” she added.
Listen:
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Jennings responded by slapping down her question.
“Own up to what?” he asked. “What the Wall Street Journal calls ‘unverified hearsay’? Which is a redundant term that an editor should strike. Unverified hearsay. Here’s the deal. Why should he go out there and have to own up to anything? He’s not ever been credibly accused.”
“The Washington Post ran a fact-check on this the other day and said, ‘We’re confident there’s nothing about the president. If there were, we would know about it.’ Unverified hearsay is what he’s dealing with, and you want him to go out and fight this ghost?” he added.
Phillip replied by doubling down on her angle.
“I think the point is mostly that, obviously, everybody knows that Donald Trump is in some shape or form represented in these documents, his name is, because for so long he was associated with Epstein,” she said. “So that’s actually not a secret. That’s not new.”
“Of course it’s not,” Jennings fired back. “It’s old news.”
“So why act this is like, you know, something that he has to protect himself against as if it’s the biggest deal in the world?” Phillip continued.
Trump, for his part, has made the case that all this is just another anti-Trump hoax designed to make him look bad.
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Author: Vivek Saxena
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