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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
Francis Miñoza

Trump's Attack on Female Journalist Backfires After Book Exposes Secret Epstein Meetings, Elon Musk's 'Co-Presidency'

Inside the White House battle over the Epstein files, where officials clashed over transparency, political risk and allegations linked to Donald Trump. (Credit: Epstein Files / DOJ)

Donald Trump's latest attack on New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman has backfired in a very Trumpian way, putting fresh attention on a new book that claims senior aides held an Epstein fallout meeting without him and that Elon Musk briefly operated as a kind of co-presidential force in the White House. The row, sparked by Trump's Truth Social rant over the weekend, has only amplified the allegations in 'Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump.'

The news came after Trump lashed out at Haberman, who co-authored the book with fellow Times reporter Jonathan Swan, calling the reporting 'mostly made up' and branding her a 'third rate writer and intellect' in a post that also misspelled her name twice. He did not attack Swan in the message, a small detail that says quite a lot about how these Trump outbursts tend to work, all fury and loose aim.

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