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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
John Bowden

JD Vance’s old tweets show why the ‘Epstein client list’ is becoming such a problem for Trump

President Donald Trump’s team spent a good deal of energy Monday in unfamiliar territory: on the wrong side of a losing battle against America’s extreme online conspiracy theorists.

Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was the face of the effort at her daily news briefing. But if Leavitt is looking for who is fueling the speculation around the dead New York financier and sex criminal who appeared on camera yucking it up with her boss, she needs to remember: the call is coming from inside the (White) house.

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