White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt is probably used to tough questions from journalists.

But she seemed a little taken aback by one that she was asked on Thursday by Jacqui Heinrich of Fox News.

And, yes, it was about Donald Trump’s recent handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case.

After Trump’s DOJ and FBI heads issued a memoclaiming there is no evidence that the convicted sex offender had a “client list” he used to blackmail powerful figures, the president dismissed the idea as a “hoax” and called Epstein truthers “weaklings” who are doing the Democrats’ work.

“There’s been a lot of discussion about the Epstein files and the president’s comments yesterday calling it........

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