Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein and the Wall Street Journal
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1997 Trump and Epstein were photographed standing near each other at a Victoria’s Secret “Angels” party, according to a Getty image of Trump posing with model Ingrid Seynhaeve that shows Epstein in the background.
The S&P 500 and the Dow followed their global counterparts higher on Thursday, and Treasury yields reversed their three-day slide after a trade deal between the United States and Japan provided a welcome sign of progress in President Donald Trump's multi-front tariff negotiations.
Trump has tried to distance himself from the Epstein fiasco, telling the media and his own supporters to stop talking about the convicted sex offender. In a Truth Social post on Wednesday, Trump lashed out at his own supporters and claimed that the scandal around the Epstein files was a “hoax” promoted by Democrats.
Wall Street appears calm after President Donald Trump walked back his earlier threats to fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.
A White House spokesperson declined to comment on if the Journal would be included in the pool in the future, either on the White House campus or on subsequent trips.