Trump White House fumes over Democrats’ ‘smear’ campaign

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00:00Trump White House fumes over Democrats' smear campaign

00:03White House Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt was slammed for identifying the late Virginia Giuffre

00:09as the victim whose name was redacted in one of Jeffrey Epstein's newly released emails about President Donald Trump.

00:16Epstein's emails

00:17President Donald Trump has said he ended his friendship with financier Jeffrey Epstein around 2004.

00:23In a typo-riddled email from April 2011 sent to his co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell,

00:29Epstein referred to Trump as the dog that hasn't barked.

00:34However, Trump's name appeared more than 1,500 times in the tranche of messages.

00:39The White House responds,

00:41White House Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt accused Democrats of using selectively leaked emails to create a fake narrative.

00:49The unnamed victim referenced in these emails is the late Virginia Giuffre,

00:53who repeatedly said President Trump was not involved in any wrongdoing whatsoever

00:57and couldn't have been friendlier.

00:59To her and their limited interactions, she continued.

01:03She could pivot.

01:04But social media critics weren't convinced by Leavitt's explanation,

01:08with many slamming the White House for using the deceased and prominent Epstein victim

01:12as deflection from the email's serious implications.

01:15Leavitt addresses other Epstein emails.

01:18During a tense press briefing, Leavitt was pressed on her statement about the Epstein emails

01:22and whether or not Trump spent hours with a victim at the convicted predator's house.

01:28Leavitt fired back.

01:29These emails prove absolutely nothing,

01:32other than the fact that President Trump did nothing wrong.