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Trump Personally Tried To Kill An Epstein Story

If Donald Trump is innocent, why did he personally try to kill a story about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein?

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Sarah Jones & Jason Easley
Sep 25, 2025
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As details continue to emerge, at some point, common sense has to take over when looking at how Trump has handled the Epstein scandal.

With a showdown in the House coming soon, on a vote to release the Epstein files, it is important to look at how the president has behaved and handled the scandal.

Keep in mind that there is still no evidence that Trump committed a crime while weighing this latest bit of reporting from The Wall Street Journal:

Traveling back to Washington aboard Air Force One, Trump told his communications aides that such a letter didn’t exist, that he would never write such a letter, and that he would try to kill the story himself.

From the plane, he called Rupert Murdoch, chair emeritus of News Corp, the parent company of the Journal’s publisher, and told him the story wasn’t true and that he should handle it, according to a person familiar with the b…

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