{"id":194616,"date":"2025-12-20T09:48:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T09:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/194616\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T09:48:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T09:48:09","slug":"live-updates-lawmakers-criticise-redactions-in-epstein-files-as-not-all-documents-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/194616\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: Lawmakers criticise redactions in Epstein files as not all documents released"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trump seems happy to avoid commenting on Epstein filespublished at 02:14 GMT<\/p>\n

02:14 GMT<\/p>\n

\"\"Bernd Debusmann Jr
Reporting from Rocky Point, North Carolina<\/p>\n

\"DonaldImage source, BBC \/ Bernd Debusmann Jr<\/p>\n

I’m currently in Rocky Point, North Carolina, where the President just began speaking.<\/p>\n

This event is, so far, very reminiscent of the many campaign rallies I attended last year. Trump is here stumping for Michael Whatley, a Senate candidate and former head of the Republican National Committee.<\/p>\n

His remarks have so far focused heavily on the economy – with the president touting his record on prices, tariffs and his recently announced $1,776 ‘warrior dividend’ for US troops.<\/p>\n

The speech has gotten a warm response from the crowd. After he came in – to the tune of “Proud to be an American” – a young woman to my left shouted “we love you so much!”, which the crowd appreciated.<\/p>\n

The president has so far not mentioned the release of the Epstein files – and among the press travelling with him, there is no expectation that he will do so.<\/p>\n

The issue is one that he, and the White House, seem happy to avoid – even if there is no suggestion of any wrongdoing on his part.<\/p>\n

Notably, he delivered no remarks and answered no questions when he took off from Washington, on the flight or upon arrival here.<\/p>\n

He also did not answer any questions at the White House earlier today – which is somewhat uncharacteristic for a man who seems to revel in his interactions with the press.<\/p>\n

We have a long night ahead of us, however, and one never knows when he may decide to speak to the reporters traveling with him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trump seems happy to avoid commenting on Epstein filespublished at 02:14 GMT 02:14 GMT Bernd Debusmann JrReporting from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-194616","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}