Donald Trump’s Epstein U-turn

特朗普对爱泼斯坦事件的转变

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2025-11-18

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Jonathan Freedland unpacks Donald Trump’s latest U-turn over the Epstein files – the one scandal the president just can’t seem to shake. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
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  • This is The Guardian.

  • Today, why Jeffrey Epstein is the one scandal Donald Trump just can't seem to escape.

  • There is so much dirt on Donald Trump that has failed to trouble his most ardent supporters.

  • The dodgy business deals, the 34 felonies, the history of appalling behaviour towards women.

  • But there is one scandal that Trump just can't shake.

  • Ever since returning to the White House,

  • Trump has been dismissing calls to release a huge cache of emails and documents that have come to be known as the Epstein files.

  • Epstein, he wrote in July, is a guy who never dies.

  • The files are a hoax.

  • Let's not waste time and energy on him, he said,

  • urging his supporters to instead celebrate what he called his perfect administration.

  • Normally Trump's MAGA base will do whatever they're told.

  • But not this time.

  • It's important that the entire Epstein network be fully exposed.

  • And when I mean fully exposed, I'm talking about everyone.

  • This is information that has needed to come out for a very long time.

  • And the American people have demanded it.

  • There are real victims to this criminal enterprise.

  • And the perpetrators are being protected

  • because they're rich and powerful and political donors to the establishment here in Washington,