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Jeffrey Epstein and the one conspiracy theory the president may regret.
Hello, Jonathan Friedland here, host of the Guardian's Politics Weekly America podcast.
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The way in which Donald Trump deals with stories he doesn't like has become an art form over the last decade.
Any criticism of him is fake news.
When it comes to peddling in conspiracy theories, well, he's a master.
But with Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted child sex offender who died in prison in 2019,
Trump seems to be squirming.
But I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody.
It's pretty boring stuff.
It's sorted, but it's boring.
The Ferrari around the so-called Epstein files is one that he helped ignite.