President Donald Trump launched into angry posts on Truth Social and a tense exchange in the Oval Office on 10 June 2026, attacking renewed coverage of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein after a New York Times report detailed his administration's private scramble to contain the affair.
The reaction came on a day already marked by rising US-Iran tensions, yet it was Epstein, not Iran, that dominated Trump's public statements. The episode offered a fresh example of a president who, in trying to quiet a scandal, instead draws more attention to it.
