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Newsmax host: “The Epstein story was rebooted because they wanted to embarrass” Alex Acosta for the plea deal. Acosta is now a Newsmax board member.

07/15/25 9:18 AM EDT
Newsmax's Greg Kelly: “I'm going to just have to defer to President Trump on this thing. He actually knows Jeffrey Epstein, or knew him. ... I'm going to take his word for it.”

07/15/25 8:59 AM EDT
On MSNBC's The 11th Hour, Angelo Carusone discusses Epstein controversy and Trump: “He doesn't really have a sense of how much this is metastasizing”

07/15/25 8:38 AM EDT
Laura Ingraham: “As conservative influencers were eating their own about Epstein, the president was stealing the show”

07/14/25 8:18 PM EDT
Fox News panel on Epstein files: “The White House wants to move on from this. ... They also feel like this is very much an online kind of outrage.”

07/14/25 8:05 PM EDT
Fox senior political analyst Brit Hume: Trump “got played by Putin and it dragged on for months”

07/14/25 7:39 PM EDT
Matt Walsh on Epstein files: “There just is no option that allows you to just, you know, vindicate the Trump administration entirely”

07/14/25 3:46 PM EDT
Media Matters files for preliminary injunction to block FTC’s retaliatory investigation

07/14/25 3:26 PM EDT
Alex Jones alleges “Trumpworld surrogates” are threatening to “cut off” MAGA influencers over the Epstein story

07/14/25 2:27 PM EDT
Roger Stone and Benny Johnson urge Steve Bannon to release Epstein footage

07/14/25 2:17 PM EDT
Charlie Kirk: “I'm done talking about Epstein for the time being. I'm gonna trust my friends in the administration.”

07/14/25 12:43 PM EDT
Benny Johnson: “The release of the Epstein client list ... is the number one motivating issue for the base”

07/14/25 11:29 AM EDT