A CNN panelist audibly rolled her eyes at a conservative guest's attempted defense of President Donald Trump against new reporting on his relationship with convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
The Wall Street Journal published a bawdy letter written two decades ago by Trump to Epstein for a 50th birthday album compiled by Ghislaine Maxwell, who was convicted in 2021 for her role in the sex trafficking ring, but conservative journalist Rob Bluey told "CNN This Morning" there were major questions about the newspaper's reporting.
"Well, [White House press secretary] Karoline Leavitt went a step further, and she said that they wouldn't even show the president the the image, the writing, so the Wall Street Journal apparently doesn't even have it in its possession," Bluey said. "So I think that there are legitimate questions that the White House is raising about the whether or not this is a fake document. Now, we don't know, I don't have any inside intel, but I will say this. I support [House speaker] Mike Johnson and what he has said about making these documents public."
"I think that it's important for the American people to decide and see with their own eyes what the government has in its possession," Bluey added, "and I hope at the end of the day the president realizes that that is what he campaigned on, that is what he will deliver."
New York Times podcaster Lulu Garcia-Navarro cut in at that point, her voice dripping with disdain.
"Oh, come on," she said. "I just want to say, I mean, the idea that this is a fake document coming from the Wall Street Journal and their editor Emma Tucker, that Rupert Murdoch, whose Fox News is one of the most the biggest supporters of this presidency, that he would publish something that wasn't rock solid, is absolutely, you know, it belies incredulity, and so I do not believe that this is fake, and I think it's going to cause an enormous problem for this president. Why? Because at every juncture, all fingers have pointed to Donald Trump in the Epstein matter. He had a relationship with with Epstein, we know that he had a relationship with Epstein, and now this actually proves, perhaps, that this relationship went far beyond what the president himself has admitted to, and so it does cause a big problem."
"This has captured the popular imagination, you know, almost 70 percent of Americans believe that there has been some kind of cover up. This is not a red issue, this is not a blue issue," Garcia-Navarro added. "This is an issue about power, the abuse of power. And this man who was at the center of a terrible sex trafficking ring, and the fact that the president of the United States might be implicated in that."
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