Overview

• At Tuesday's White House briefing, Karoline Leavitt insisted she did not call the Epstein documents a hoax and reframed her claim as criticism of a partisan 'narrative.'
• On Monday, Leavitt said coverage was 'FAKE NEWS' fueling a 'Democrat Epstein Hoax' as she asserted Trump neither drew nor signed a crude birthday message to Jeffrey Epstein.
• Maggie Haberman pressed Leavitt to specify what was fake and who was fabricating records from the Epstein estate, and Leavitt declined to say the documents themselves were fake.
• Leavitt also rejected the authenticity of a purported $22,000 check, saying the signature shown was not the president's.
• Asked whether Trump would meet with Epstein's victims, Leavitt said he cares about all victims but did not commit to a meeting, and she noted Democrats were using victims as political pawns.