Steve Bannon on new WSJ story on Trump and Epstein: “The Wall Street Journal is the enemy”

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Earlier on July 23, The Wall Street Journal reported that “Donald Trump’s name appeared multiple times” in “documents related to Jeffrey Epstein.” The paper also noted that “being mentioned in the records isn’t a sign of wrongdoing.”

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, according to 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.

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On July 15, an ABC News journalist asked Trump, as he took questions from reporters at the White House, what Bondi told him about the Epstein files: “Specifically, did she tell you at all that your name appeared in the files?”

“No, no, she’s—she’s given us just a very quick briefing,” Trump responded. He also said Bondi had “really done a very good job” on the Epstein review.

From the July 23, 2025, edition of War Room

STEPHEN K. BANNON (HOST): And the Wall Street Journal and the Murdochs, as I have warned for years, are true enemies of this movement, true enemies of MAGA, true enemies of the United States, and particularly, true enemies of President Trump.

The other day, the half-baked story where they dropped it because Tulsi was releasing the first information on Friday to bigfoot the story with the with the fake news phony poem and the phony drawing that they've never shown anybody. Today, Tulsi comes for a command performance and Karoline Leavitt. Karoline Leavitt looked him right in the eye and said, hey, you guys are — you're paying people that are named in these documents that are guilty of a treasonous conspiracy. Right? And a coup against a sitting president, and you're paying them as commentators for the last years, and just sit there for six or seven years and hammer every day their lies and misrepresentations as she's showing.

And what does the Wall Street Journal do? Immediately after that, they drop another story about President Trump. Oh, President Trump, you know, he's got this with Epstein.

And President Trump and Karoline come out right away say fake news.

The Wall Street Journal is the enemy.

They're coming after Trump with half-baked fake news, and they're trying to do it every day to bigfoot with Tulsi Gabbard's coming out with fact.