Article in AlterNet by Carl Gibson, 7/22/25
Headline: “ ‘Got to be kidding’: Trump abruptly hangs up on CNN when asked about new Epstein photos”
“Previously unseen photos of President Donald Trump and convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein were released by CNN on Tuesday night, and he has yet to answer the network’s questions about them. . . ”
“According to CNN reporters Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck, the president put a quick end to a phone call the moment he was asked about the photos of him and Epstein at Trump’s wedding to Marla Maples in 1993 at New York’s Plaza Hotel. The network also published footage of Trump and Epstein smiling and laughing with each other during a 1999 Victoria’s Secret fashion show. The new photos and video took place several years before Epstein’s first conviction.
“In a brief call with CNN on Tuesday, President Trump, asked about the wedding photos, responded, ‘You’ve got to be kidding me,’ before repeatedly calling CNN ‘fake news’ and hanging up,” Kaczynski and Steck wrote. . .”
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