{"id":15847,"date":"2025-07-22T16:37:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T16:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/15847\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T16:37:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T16:37:08","slug":"trump-speaks-in-oval-office-as-justice-department-requests-meeting-with-epstein-co-conspirator-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/15847\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump speaks in Oval Office as justice department requests meeting with Epstein co-conspirator – live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

White House pushes back on MAGA discontentpublished at 16:12 British Summer Time<\/p>\n

16:12 BST<\/p>\n

\"KarolineImage source, Getty Images<\/p>\n

Yesterday was a quiet day at the White House, one of the rare times we did not hear from President Trump in person or on camera.<\/p>\n

Reporters did, however, have a brief “gaggle” with White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt outside the West Wing, where she answered questions on a wide variety of topics ranging from Gaza to the economy. <\/p>\n

At one point, a reporter asked her about growing frustration among the President’s base – commonly known as MAGA for his campaign slogan Make America Great Again – over the administration’s handling of the Epstein case. <\/p>\n

Without hesitation, Leavitt pointed to polls suggesting Trump remains popular among those ardent supporters.<\/p>\n

“The president is the creator and the leader of the Make America Great Again movement,” she said. “It’s his baby, that he made, and he knows what his supporters want.”<\/p>\n

In a CBS News and YouGov poll released on Sunday, 89% of Republicans approved of Trump’s job performance, compared to 42% of all respondents. At the same time, more than half of Republicans, 54%, said that the Epstein case did not matter when evaluating his presidency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"White House pushes back on MAGA discontentpublished at 16:12 British Summer Time 16:12 BST Image source, Getty Images…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-15847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}