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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt responded sharply on Wednesday to the release of emails linked to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, which some Democratic lawmakers claimed raised new questions about former President Donald Trump’s connections.  “These emails prove absolutely nothing, other than the fact that President Trump did nothing wrong,” Leavitt said during a briefing at the White House.  The newly released communications were shared by House Democrats, who alleged that they provided further context to Epstein’s network of political contacts. The White House accused Democrats of attempting to “manufacture a smear campaign” to distract from ongoing investigations into their own leadership.  #KarolineLeavitt #DonaldTrump #JeffreyEpstein #EpsteinFiles #WhiteHouse #PressBriefing #USPolitics #BreakingNews #WashingtonDC #TrumpAdministration #EpsteinEmails #Democrats #Republicans

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00:00Sure. I have your statement about the new Epstein emails that have been released by

00:06House Democrats. Separate from why you believe the emails were made public, can you address

00:12their substance? Did the president ever spend hours at Jeffrey Epstein's house with a victim?

00:18These emails prove absolutely nothing other than the fact that President Trump did nothing wrong.

00:24And what President Trump has always said is that he was from Palm Beach and so was Jeffrey Epstein.

00:30Jeffrey Epstein was a member at Mar-a-Lago until President Trump kicked him out because Jeffrey

00:35Epstein was a pedophile and he was a creep. In this email you refer to with the name of a victim that

00:41was unredacted now and has since been reported on in this room, so I will go ahead and say it,

00:47Virginia Guffrey. And it was CBS's own reporting Ouija that recently wrote that Ms. Guffrey maintained,

00:53and God rest her soul, that she maintained that there was nothing inappropriate she ever witnessed,

00:58that President Trump was always extremely professional and friendly to her. And so I think

01:03it's a question worth asking the Democrat Party, and you should all go ask them after this briefing,

01:08of why they chose to redact that name of a victim who has already publicly made statements

01:12about her relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and is unfortunately no longer with us.

01:17Mary? Thank you, Kelly. Two questions on this. In the interest of transparency,

01:20why not just go ahead, release the full files on Epstein, get this all over with?

01:25We have, this administration has done more with respect to transparency when it comes to Jeffrey

01:31Epstein than any administration ever. In fact, this administration, the Department of Justice,

01:36has turned over tens of thousands of documents to the American people. We are cooperating and showing

01:43support for the House Oversight Committee. That's part of the reason you are seeing these documents

01:48that were released today, because of the House Oversight Committees and Republicans' efforts

01:52to get these out to the public. This administration also moved, the Department of Justice also moved

01:56to unseal grand jury testimony, which we know, unfortunately, a judge declined those requests.

02:03So this administration has done more than any. And it just shows how this is truly a manufactured

02:09hoax by the Democrat Party for now they're talking about it all of a sudden because President Trump

02:14is in the Oval Office. But when Joe Biden was sitting in there, the Democrats never brought this

02:19up. This wasn't an issue that they cared about because they actually don't care about the victims

02:23in these cases. They care about trying to score political points against President Trump,

02:27as we have, of course, seen with this government shutdown. And this entire thing, again,

02:31it's not a coincidence to the American people at home. There are no coincidences in Washington,

02:36D.C. And it is not a coincidence that the Democrats leaked these emails to the fake news

02:42this morning ahead of Republicans reopening the government. This is another distraction campaign

02:48by the Democrat in the liberal media. And it's why I'm being asked questions about Epstein instead of

02:53the government reopening because of Republicans and President Trump. But given your interest in

02:57transparency, Caroline, why are White House officials then meeting with Representative Boebert in an

03:02effort to try and get her to not sign this petition calling for the release of the files?

03:06Doesn't it show transparency that members of the Trump administration are willing to brief members

03:12of Congress whenever they please? Doesn't that show our level of transparency? Doesn't that show the

03:17level of transparency when we are willing to sit down with members of Congress and address their

03:21concerns? That is the that's a defining factor of transparency, having discussions, having discussions

03:28with members of Congress about various issues. And I'm not going to detail conversations that took place

03:32in the situation room in the press briefing room. Reagan. I have a question about the government

03:36shutdown. Thank you. I'm glad someone does. First, on the government shutdown, the shutdown deal reverses

03:43the administration's rents and it also prohibits more from happening until the end of January.

03:48I'm wondering if the president had input on this element of the deal and if he's at all disappointed

03:52that's going to reverse the downsizing of the federal government that they did during the shutdown?

03:56I mean, look, I think it's about six thousand workers total. When you look at that in comparison

04:01to the reduction in the federal workforce that this administration has done since January to get rid of

04:06the waste, the fraud, the abuse and to reduce the size of our federal bureaucracy, we've done a lot of

04:12great work on that front and we will continue to. But obviously, the president's main priority was to

04:18reopen the federal government and get people back to work. And that's what this deal accomplishes.

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