President Donald Trump has new marching orders for his administration: if they get a question they don’t like, bring up how former President Barack Obama “cheated” in the election. He’s now even feeding GOP congress members specific lines that they can use in interviews.
The fallout from Jeffrey Epstein’s case has been impossible for the president to shake. Every attempt Trump has made to divert attention from the topic has backfired. His usual tactic — attacking the media when asked why the Epstein files remain classified — has fallen flat, given how publicly close he was with Wall Street Journal owner Rupert Murdoch until very recently. Trump even attended the FIFA Club World Cup final by Murdoch’s side, where he bizarrely received a medal. He can’t suddenly call Murdoch’s media conglomerate “fake news” just because it’s now covering a story he doesn’t like.
