Watch: Psaki Immediately Walks Back Trump-Epstein Claim After Realizing She Went Too Far
The article discusses the ongoing media controversies involving former President Donald Trump and allegations related to Jeffrey Epstein.It highlights a recent incident where former White House press secretary Jen Psaki made a perhaps defamatory statement linking Trump to predatory behavior alongside Epstein’s associates but quickly retracted it. The piece criticizes Democrats for using dishonest tactics to associate Trump with Epstein without evidence of wrongdoing. It also notes several legal settlements where major media outlets, including ABC and CBS, settled with Trump for false or misleading reporting, emphasizing the continued legal pushback Trump has made against establishment media. Despite media focus on Epstein, the Trump administration has shown little interest in aggressively pursuing the matter, leading to calls for full transparency from the U.S. government regarding the Epstein case. the article portrays the media as frequently deceptive, applauds Trump’s legal successes against false claims, and stresses the importance of demanding the full truth about Epstein.
Holding the establishment media accountable for each instance of deliberate and malicious deception would amount to a game of whack-a-mole.
Nonetheless, President Donald Trump has picked his battles, and that strategy appears to have had an effect.
For instance, in a clip posted Thursday morning to the social media platform X, MSNBC’s Jen Psaki, host of “The Briefing with Jen Psaki” and former White House press secretary under the Biden administration, made an outrageous and potentially defamatory claim about Trump before immediately correcting herself.
“You’re talking about the other predators out there in addition to Trump,” Psaki said during an interview Wednesday with Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia, his party’s ranking member on the House Oversight Committee.
Psaki was referring to associates of the late convicted sex offender and suspected trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, in whom Democrats showed no interest during four years of Biden’s presidency.
Since Biden left office, however, Democrats have engaged in desperate and dishonest tactics in an effort to link Epstein with Trump.
No one, of course, has produced evidence that in this case Trump, unlike Epstein, did anything immoral, let alone illegal.
A little birdie — perhaps a producer in her ear — must have reminded Psaki of that fact, or Psaki realized herself that she had gone too far. Either way, she quickly corrected herself.
“I mean, I’m not saying he is. We don’t know all the details about that,” she frantically clarified, arms waving. “I just mean, in addition to what we’ve learned about Epstein and others, there’s other predators out there.”
Jen Psaki gets too excited about the Epstein hoax, says “other predators out there in addition to Trump” then hurriedly walks it back.
Visions of a lawsuit immediately danced in her head. pic.twitter.com/M7b0cmJDzk
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) November 13, 2025
One would have to assume by now that establishment propagandists like Psaki would have learned a lesson.
After all, in December ABC News reached a $16 million settlement with Trump over potentially defamatory comments made on-air by network propagandist George Stephanopoulos, who falsely stated that a jury had found Trump liable for the “rape” of journalist and author E. Jean Carroll.
A jury had found Trump liable for “sexual abuse” — not “rape.”
Then, in July, CBS parent company Paramount agreed to a $16 million settlement over “60 Minutes’” decision to edit an October 2024 interview with then-Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris in a way that made Harris sound coherent.
Last week, according to a report, Trump “threatened” to sue the British Broadcasting Corporation for $1 billion over that network’s selective editing of Trump’s speech immediately preceding the Capitol incursion of Jan. 6, 2021, which made it appear that Trump encouraged violence. BBC has issued an apology for its “error of judgment.”
In all of these instances, media figures propagated a lie. A federal jury found Trump liable not for rape but for sexual abuse in the Carroll case. Harris spoke — and speaks — not with clarity but in word salads. And Trump encouraged supporters to protest peacefully on Jan. 6.
Of course, the Trump administration could make the current controversy go away by releasing everything pertaining to Epstein.
Instead, the administration has largely shown indifference to the Epstein case and eagerness to move on from it. Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel, in particular, have discredited themselves on the issue.
In short, we may rightly mock Democrats for their habitual dishonesty and celebrate Trump’s legal chastisement of the establishment media, which Psaki probably remembered before correcting herself. But we also have a right to demand the full truth about Epstein from everyone in the U.S. government.
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