Newsmax continued its efforts to distance President Trump from the Jeffrey Epstein scandal with a July 26 TV appearance by its favorite (well, second favorite behind Alan Dershowitz) former Epstein attorney, David Schoen:
The Department of Justice and the FBI announced earlier in the month there was never any specific “client list” of the late, disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein and confirmed he did die by suicide. Mixed signals from conservative influencers and inconsistent promises from government officials have only added to the speculation that the Epstein case will never reach closure. David Schoen, the former attorney of Epstein, told Newsmax on Saturday that regardless of what is eventually released, “nobody is going to be satisfied.”
“The conspiracy theorists, I hate to say … are never going to be satisfied. If you produce something, they’ll say, ‘Well, there must be something more. They’re holding back.’ And on the left. They don’t care about the issues. They simply want to sow dissension, by the way, they ought to be careful. They may rue the day that they got any documents, because if there ever were such a list, they’d come up with a lot more of their friends on it than [President] Donald Trump’s friends,” Schoen said during an appearance on “Saturday Agenda.”
Schoen, who was Epstein’s attorney for only nine days before Epstein died, said there was never any “such list” of individuals that Epstein may have been blackmailing in compromising positions.
An anonymously written July 28 article huffed:
As the political firestorm surrounding the late Jeffrey Epstein reignites, a recent report by The Washington Post finds that there is “no public evidence of any wrongdoing on [President Donald] Trump’s part.”
Despite that key finding, questions from lawmakers and media figures have dominated headlines in recent weeks about who was really involved with Epstein, the wealthy financier and convicted sex offender who died in a Manhattan jail in 2019.
The article did admit that “The media whirlwind has been backed by some on the extreme MAGA right,” but didn’t really define what that means or why it considers Tucker Carlson to be a part of that.
Yet another July 28 article hyped:
This powerful Newsmax exposé uncovers what the mainstream media refuses to say — the Epstein scandal wasn’t just a tragedy, it was deeply tied to some of the most powerful figures in the Democratic Party.
Available ONLY on Newsmax Platinum — Here’s Why You Must Read It:
Discover how Jeffrey Epstein’s closest political, financial, and social ties were overwhelmingly with high-profile Democrat leaders, not Republicans:
[…]As America heads into a pivotal election year, knowing the truth about elite Democrat connections is more important than ever.
Apparently, that article was not so important that Newsmax wouldn’t stop hiding it behind a paywall — and given that nobody else has reported its claims, it probably wasn’t that important at all. This promo article was essentially an ad for Newsmax Platinum.
One more July 28 article touted a conspiracy theory by Trump himself:
President Donald Trump says his name may have been planted in the Jeffrey Epstein files by former FBI Director James Comey or former Attorney General Merrick Garland.
“Those files were run by the worst scum on earth. They were run by Comey, they were run by Garland, they were run by [former President Joe] Biden, and all of the people that actually ran the government, including the autopen. Those files were run for four years by those people. If they had anything, I assume they would have released it,” Trump told reporters Monday in Turnberry, Scotland.
“Now, they can easily put something in the files that’s a phony. … Christopher Steele, as an example, wrote a book, a dossier. We call it the fake news dossier. And the whole thing was a fake. The whole thing was a fake. They could put things in the file that are fake, but those files were run by bad, sick people,” he said.
Writer Solange Reyner made no effort to try and verify anything Trump said.
Meanwhile, Newsmax published two wire articles repeating Trump’s claim that he fell out with Epstein due to poaching of staff at Mar-a-Lago. And it promoted another paywalled article on the subject:
This powerful Newsmax exposé uncovers what the mainstream media refuses to say — Ghislaine Maxwell knows the darkest secrets of the Jeffrey Epstein scandal — and her revelations could rock America and the world.
If you’re looking for real answers in the Epstein scandal — not sanitized headlines — Newsmax Platinum’s explosive report delivers what the mainstream media avoids: names, connections, and the unsettling implications behind them.
This isn’t just another rundown of the Epstein saga. This article cuts through the noise to explore what Ghislaine Maxwell really knows, who she may expose, and why the global elite should be worried.
With congressional inquiries heating up, Maxwell could soon be forced to talk under oath — a moment that could shift the landscape of elite accountability.
the names of Bill Clinton and Prince Andrew were teased, but it also pointedly noted that “there’s no public evidence linking Trump to Epstein’s crimes.” Again, the article itself is behind a paywall, so it can’t actually be that important.
And none of these articles that one of the prosecutors who helped arrange Epstein’s sweetheart plea deal, Alex Acosta, is on the Newsmax board of directors.