Trump Will Not Recommend Special Prosecutor in Epstein Case

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By Reuters

Published 4 months ago on

July 17, 2025

U.S. financier Jeffrey Epstein appears in a photograph taken for the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services' sex offender registry March 28, 2017 and obtained by Reuters July 10, 2019. (Reuters File)

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WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump will not recommend a special prosecutor in the Jeffrey Epstein case, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Thursday.

“The president would not recommend a special prosecutor in the Epstein case. That’s how he feels,” Leavitt told reporters.

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(Reporting by Steve Holland and Nandita Bose in Washington; Editing by Chris Reese)

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U.S. financier Jeffrey Epstein appears in a photograph taken for the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services' sex offender registry March 28, 2017 and obtained by Reuters July 10, 2019. (Reuters File)

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