By Katherine Tinsley
3:32pm PDT, Jul 18, 2025
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Donald Trump wants the nation to forget about
Jeffrey Epstein — and so does
Nancy Pelosi, who weighed in on the president's ties to the late financier.
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While appearing on MSNBC, Nancy Pelosi discussed the controversy surrounding Donald Trump administration's approach to Jeffrey Epstein's case, and the Democrat surprisingly threw the president somewhat of a lifeline.
Chris Jansing asked Pelosi if "there's anything the president can do now to get his supporters to move off of the Epstein issue?"
"Again, this is a distraction. This is a distraction. We have major issues right here with things we're voting on today in the Congress, again, in terms of the rescission that the president and the Senate have sent back over us to cut all of these resources out of helping poor people throughout the world, to be America play its leadership role in soft power to keep us safe, and to keep us healthy, so that we-, viruses know no boundary," Pelosi replied about the president's "One Big Beautiful Bill."
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Nancy Pelosi noted that the general public is focused on Jeffrey Epstein and the Alligator Alcatraz detention center instead of the "One Big Beautiful Bill" budget cuts.
"And instead we're talking about him-, about this thing, and his own base has its own views of what the president should do. I'll leave it up to them to talk it out," Pelosi said. "But again, whether it's Jeffrey Epstein or Alcatraz, it's all off the subject of what they're doing with this budget that is harmful to the kitchen table, meeting the kitchen-table needs of the American people."
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Chris Jansing later pushed Nancy Pelosi to clarify her comments.
"I want to make sure I understand what you mean when you say distraction. Do you think that Pam Bondi going to Alcatraz is meant potentially as a distraction from Epstein, which has not gone over well at all with the president's base?" the anchor asked.
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"No, I think they're both distractions," Nancy Pelosi doubled down on her point. "I think that they're off the subject of what is happening, changing the character and the culture of America by undermining, by placing huge trillions of dollars of national debt on the for future generations to carry forward at the expense of the health, nutrition, education of the American people."
