{"id":160261,"date":"2025-08-11T09:24:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T09:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-epstein-case-haunts-administration-even-as-vance-blames-democrats-for-mishandling-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T09:24:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T09:24:25","slug":"trump-news-at-a-glance-epstein-case-haunts-administration-even-as-vance-blames-democrats-for-mishandling-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-epstein-case-haunts-administration-even-as-vance-blames-democrats-for-mishandling-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump news at a glance: Epstein case haunts administration even as Vance blames Democrats for mishandling – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vice-president tries to deflect criticism of government\u2019s refusal to release so-called Epstein files, triggering renewed calls for transparency \u2013 key US politics stories from Sunday 10 August
Vice-president JD Vance\u2019s attempt to deflect attention away from the Trump administration\u2019s handling of the case against convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has backfired, triggering renewed calls for transparency.
In an interview<\/a> with Fox News broadcast on Sunday, Vance tried to brush off criticism of the administration\u2019s refusal to release documents related to the scandal, accusing Joe Biden of doing \u201cabsolutely nothing\u201d about it when he was in the White House.
Within minutes of the Fox News interview being broadcast, social media began to hum with renewed cries of \u201crelease the files!\u201d
The White House has been caught in a bind<\/a> over the Epstein affair, which spawned conspiracy theories among many of Donald Trump\u2019s supporters which now senior figures in the administration had actively encouraged during the 2024 campaign.
Here are the key US politics<\/a> stories at a glance:
Four days after JD Vance<\/a> reportedly asked top Trump administration<\/a> officials to come up with a new communications strategy for dealing with the scandal around the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein<\/a>, the vice-president appears to have put his foot in it, sparking a new round of online outrage even as he tried to defuse the furor.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
Nvidia and AMD have agreed to give the US government 15% of their revenues from chip sales in China, under an unprecedented arrangement to obtain export licenses for the semiconductors, the Financial Times reported<\/a> on Sunday.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
The Texas governor, Greg Abbott, has stepped up his war of words with Democratic lawmakers who have left the state<\/a> to foil an aggressive redistricting plan aimed at giving his Republican party five additional seats in Congress, saying on Sunday that the fight \u201ccould literally last years\u201d.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
A federal judge in Hawaii<\/a> has ruled that commercial fishing is illegal in the Pacific Islands Heritage marine national monument, a federally protected area in the central Pacific Ocean.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
In a social media post on Sunday, the president demanded homeless residents of Washington DC<\/a> leave the country\u2019s capital or face eviction, and again promised to use federal officers to jail criminals, even though violent crime in the city was at a 30-year low when he took office in January.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
The technology, surveillance and private prison providers arming Trump\u2019s massive expansion and weaponization of immigration enforcement are running a victory lap after reporting their latest financial results.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
Ahead of the a meeting between president Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin scheduled for Friday, our correspondent Shaun Walker has written this analysis<\/a> about how confusion over the summit shows Putin still calls the shots.
Trump\u2019s second term has seen a sustained assault on democratic institutions \u2013 political, judicial, media, cultural and academic \u2013 that appears to be only accelerating, writes David Smith in this feature<\/a>.
Catching up? Here\u2019s what happened 9 August 2025<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Vice-president tries to deflect criticism of government\u2019s refusal to release so-called Epstein files, triggering renewed calls for transparency \u2013 key US politics stories from Sunday 10 AugustVice-president JD Vance\u2019s attempt to deflect attention away from the Trump administration\u2019s handling of the case against convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has backfired, triggering renewed calls for transparency.In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":160262,"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-160261","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\/160261","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=160261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}