Trump-Epstein Saga Dominates Sunday Political Shows

Try as they might, the president and his top officials could not dislodge the unflattering saga from the headlines.

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The ongoing furor over whether President Donald Trump will release a trove of documents from the investigation into disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein dominated the Sunday political talk shows this week, despite repeated attempts by Trump and his top officials to dislodge the saga from the headlines.

Tennessee Rep. Tim Burchett, one of a small group of Republicans on Capitol Hill pushing for greater transparency in the case, doubled down on his calls for the White House to release its evidence against the late accused pedophile in twin interviews Sunday on ABC’s This Week and CNN’s State of the Union.

He criticized Attorney General Pam Bondi in particular, saying that he thought her inexperience was the cause of her early missteps in the case.