CNN anchor Jake Tapper sharply criticized President Donald Trump for what he described as a pattern of lashing out at female reporters who question him about the Epstein Files, pressing the sister-in-law of the late Virginia Giuffre for her reaction to the presidents latest outburst.
The clash that prompted Tappers commentary occurred Tuesday during a White House signing ceremony, when CNN correspondent Kaitlan Collins asked about concerns from survivors regarding the latest release of the Epstein Files and President Trump flipped out in response, according to Mediaite. That confrontation followed earlier incidents in which the president berated women who raised questions about Jeffrey Epstein, including when Trump called Bloomberg White House correspondent Catherine Lucey Piggy in November and, days later, went after ABC News White House correspondent Mary Bruce.
On Thursdays edition of his CNN program, Tapper laid out what he sees as a troubling trend while interviewing Sky Roberts and Amanda Roberts, Virginia Giuffres brother and sister-in-law. Since last November, which is not really that much time, there have been three times that women reporters have confronted or asked President Trump some pretty basic questions about the Epstein files. And all three times he lashed out, once he said, Quiet, piggy to a reporter, female reporter. And then just earlier this week, he attacked our own Kaitlan Collins again, asking, doing her job, asking questions, Tapper said.
Tapper also noted that at the same time, President Trump said its time for the country to move on, and he asked Amanda Roberts for her reaction to that stance. Roberts, speaking from the perspective of a family member of one of Epsteins most prominent accusers, said the presidents behavior raises serious concerns about how survivors are being treated in the public square.
Im just curious as to why hes so triggered every time, and specifically when were talking about survivors, Amanda Roberts said, arguing that Collins and others are simply asking the president to acknowledge the victims. Every time the reporter, especially Kaitlan Collins, when she brought up survivors, shes asking him to address the victims. Right? Who were girls? They were children, okay?
Roberts stressed that while the public may now see those victims as adults, their abuse occurred when they were minors and cannot be brushed aside for political convenience. We see them as women now, but they were children. And hes asking them to address their feelings. And hes so triggered by that. I find that so astonishing. Number one, that he gets so triggered by that. And no one can, should or can move on from child abuse. Okay? We should never move on from child abuse, she said.
She went on to argue that a broader cultural reckoning is underway, one that challenges entrenched power structures that have long failed to protect the vulnerable. And the culture is shifting, right? We are finally in this space of saying this. Whatever has been happening, this power, this, this position, its time for it to change. Its not working. We are not protecting our children. And that should be our priority, Roberts added.
And so I just I just find it astonishing that hes just so triggered by survivors, she concluded, underscoring a tension between a political class eager to move on and families who insist that justice for exploited children must remain at the forefront of the national conversation.
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