'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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“These are nothing more than out-of-context frame grabs of innocuous videos and pictures of widely attended events to disgustingly infer something nefarious," White House spokesperson Steven Cheung said in response to the new photos. “The fact is that the President kicked him out of his club for being a creep. This is nothing more than a continuation of the fake news stories concocted by the Democrats and the liberal media.”

The New York Times recently assembled a chronology of Trump and Epstein's friendship over a period spanning more than a decade. Trump told New York Magazine in 2002 that he had known Epstein for "15 years," calling him a "terrific guy." The two remained friends until 2004, when the Times reported that the two had a falling out after fighting over Florida real estate.

However, Epstein's brother, Mark, said that Jeffrey Epstein was the one who ended relations with Trump first, calling him a "crook." Epstein was eventually arrested in 2006, and pleaded guilty to two felony charges in 2008 in order to avoid prison time.

The Epstein scandal has remained a thorn in Trump's side, as he continues to refuse to release the remainder of the FBI's evidence on the deceased child predator after he died in prison in 2019. His death was ruled a suicide, though conspiracy theories — including among Trump's MAGA base — continue to spread online speculating about the true cause of his death.

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