Fact-Checking Trump’s Epstein Defenses

Princess Diana at center of latest Trump-Epstein bombshell

The late Princess Diana is at the center of a new revelation about the relationship between President Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier who died in 2019 awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges. The revelation sparked fury from the White House.According to Trump biographer M...

Fact-Checking Trump on Epstein - Overpasses For America

new video loaded: By Linda Qiu, Claire Hogan, June Kim and Zach Wood•August 14, 2025 For the most part, President Trump has ignored questions about Jeffrey Epstein, a registered sex offender who paid teenage girls for sex. He has brushed off the matter as a “hoax” without elaborating, and he has tried to deflect by attacking his political enemies. But there are a few instances when the president did address questions about Epstein. Here’s an as…

Fact-Checking Trump’s Epstein Defenses

President Trump has wrestled for weeks with escalating discontent among some of his most loyal supporters over his administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files. Since taking office, top Justice Department officials had promised to release revealing documents on Mr. Epstein, a registered sex offender awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges before his death in a Manhattan jail cell in 2019. But in July, the agency essentially reversed …