{"id":157267,"date":"2025-07-17T03:02:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T03:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-musk-mocks-epstein-hoax-claims-after-president-blasts-its-stupid-believers-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T03:02:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T03:02:58","slug":"trump-news-at-a-glance-musk-mocks-epstein-hoax-claims-after-president-blasts-its-stupid-believers-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-musk-mocks-epstein-hoax-claims-after-president-blasts-its-stupid-believers-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump news at a glance: Musk mocks \u2018Epstein hoax\u2019 claims after president blasts its \u2018stupid\u2019 believers – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Musk says Trump should release files and \u2018point out which part is the hoax\u2019 as the president struggles to contain crisis within Maga base. Key US politics stories from Wednesday 16 July at a glance
Elon Musk has mocked Donald Trump\u2019s claim that files related to the federal investigation into Jeffrey Epstein are \u201ca hoax\u201d.
\u201cWow, amazing that Epstein \u2018killed himself\u2019 and Ghislaine is in federal prison for a hoax,\u201d Musk wrote<\/a> on his social media platform X in response to the US president\u2019s attempt to deflect questions about Epstein and his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, by casting doubt on the authenticity of the documents his justice department has refused to release.
\u201cHe should just release the files and point out which part is the hoax,\u201d Musk added.
Trump lashed out against his own supporters on Wednesday, calling them gullible \u201cweaklings\u201d for questioning the transparency of a secretive government inquiry into Epstein<\/a>, the late sex offender. The US president also lambasted any Republicans who believe there is more to be revealed about the case as \u201cstupid\u201d and \u201cfoolish\u201d people.
Here\u2019s more on this and other key US politics<\/a> stories of the day:
The president accused his voters of falling for what he called a \u201cradical left\u201d hoax by the opposition to discredit him over the Jeffrey Epstein case.
In a lengthy post on his Truth Social site, Trump said: \u201cLet these weaklings continue forward and do the Democrats work, don\u2019t even think about talking of our incredible and unprecedented success, because I don\u2019t want their support any more!\u201d
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
The president Trump has privately indicated he is on the verge of firing Jerome Powell, the Federal Reserve<\/a> chair, rattling Wall Street and renewing questions over the US central bank\u2019s independence.
He insisted publicly on Wednesday that it was \u201chighly unlikely\u201d he would dismiss the Fed chair, after reports he had suggested he would and shown a draft letter dismissing Powell to political allies.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
The US has flown five immigrants from Vietnam, Jamaica, Laos, Yemen and Cuba to the small African country of Eswatini<\/a>, an absolute monarchy with a troubling human rights record.
The move signals that the US is again ramping up so-called \u201cthird country\u201d deportations after the US supreme court cleared the practice last month.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
The US president\u2019s announcement that Brazil would be hit with 50% tariffs until former president Jair Bolsonaro<\/a>\u2019s coup trial was dropped has backfired, instead giving a boost to current president Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva<\/a>.
Trump apparently expected his intervention to improve the outlook for Bolsonaro, 70, who is already banned from running in next year\u2019s election. But a week on, the ploy seems to be reinvigorating Bolsonaro\u2019s leftwing rivals, giving Lula a bounce in the polls and prompting a wave of public anger \u2013 largely focused on the Bolsonaro clan, who have spent years portraying themselves as flag-loving nationalists.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
Columbia University has agreed to adopt a controversial definition of antisemitism as it pursues <\/strong>an agreement with the Trump administration<\/a> aimed at restoring $400m in federal government grants frozen over its alleged failure to protect Jewish students.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
Senate Republicans have moved to pass legislation slashing up to $9bn in funds Congress had earlier approved for foreign aid programs and public broadcasting, as part of Trump\u2019s campaign of dramatic government spending cuts.
The GOP is racing to meet a Friday deadline mandated by law for the bill to pass Congress, otherwise the Trump administration will be forced to spend the money.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
A group of 20 mostly Democratic-led US states filed a lawsuit on Wednesday<\/strong> seeking to block the Trump administration from terminating a multibillion-dollar grant program<\/a> that funds infrastructure upgrades to protect against natural disasters.
Democrats must organize urgently for the 2026 midterm elections<\/strong> and avoid an \u201cit can\u2019t happen here\u201d mentality to stop Trump from staging a full-scale autocratic takeover, a Hungarian opposition parliamentarian has said<\/a>.
Catching up? Here\u2019s what happened on 15 July 2025<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Musk says Trump should release files and \u2018point out which part is the hoax\u2019 as the president struggles to contain crisis within Maga base. Key US politics stories from Wednesday 16 July at a glanceElon Musk has mocked Donald Trump\u2019s claim that files related to the federal investigation into Jeffrey Epstein are \u201ca hoax\u201d.\u201cWow, amazing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":157268,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-us","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}