President Donald Trump hung up the phone after 30 seconds when CNN reporter Andrew Kaczynski phoned on Tuesday to inquire about recent photographs of Jeffrey Epstein at the president’s 1993 wedding to his second wife, Marla Maples.
The images, obtained by CNN’s KFile, show Epstein attending Trump’s Plaza Hotel wedding and chatting with Trump and his children at a Harley-Davidson Cafe event the same year.
Speaking about the images on Tuesday night, CNN presenter Erin Burnett stated that the material had “never been seen” before and was part of a larger archive investigation, presenting the information as exclusive.
Funny enough, Kaczynski had to admit that the photographs were available on Google Images and the Shutterstock content collection. He stated that their fresh relevance stems from the fact that they “have not been widely reported and predate any of Epstein’s known legal issues.”
Speaking with Burnett after his piece was published, Kaczynski said that he had phoned the president immediately before publication, but Trump swiftly ended the discussion.
“We were not on the phone very long. I think our call was about 30 seconds or so. But when I asked him about the wedding photo, he said he sort of paused for a second and then said, you’ve got to be kidding me before calling CNN ‘fake news’ and then hanging up on me,” Kaczynski said.
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BREAKING! Holy crap!
CNN just released exclusive new video of Trump and Jeffrey Epstein hanging out at the 1999 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, as well as images of Epstein at Trump’s second wedding.
No wonder why Trump is trying to deflect with Obama claims pic.twitter.com/9Sk0CN63fc
— Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) July 22, 2025
NEW IMAGES EMERGE OF EPSTEIN AT TRUMP’S WEDDING IN 1993 – CNN pic.twitter.com/a1ew8eytqE
— Secular Talk (KyleKulinskiShow@bsky.social) (@KyleKulinski) July 22, 2025
White House Communications Director Steven Cheung followed up with the following statement: “These are nothing more than out-of-context frame grabs of innocuous videos and pictures of widely attended events to disgustingly infer something nefarious.”
He continued: “The fact is that the President kicked him out of his club for being a creep. This is nothing more than a continuation of the fake news stories concocted by the Democrats and the liberal media.”
Conservative influencer Eric Daugherty also mocked the “bombshell” from CNN.
“CNN dropped an ‘exclusive,’ bombshell showing Trump at a wedding with Epstein – ‘newly discovered photos.’ The photos have been known for *YEARS,* all of this was public record. So CNN is reporting years-old news now just to further a hoax on Trump,” Daugherty wrote on X.
Earlier this week, former Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz named two former top Democratic officials on Sunday, whom he says appear in the Epstein files.
Speaking to Fox News Sunday host Shannon Bream, Dershowitz clarified that there was never an official “client list,” but noted that names can be uncovered through other means and that additional information is available. Dershowitz previously served on Jeffrey Epstein’s legal team during his 2008 case, in which Epstein pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution from a minor.
“For example, there is an FBI report of interviews with alleged victims in which at least one of the victims names very important people, and the names have been redacted. I know some of the names from my investigation,” he added.
“George Mitchell, the former senator [from Maine]; Bill Richardson, the former ambassador to the UN; [former Israeli Prime Minister] Ehud Barak … were all accused. Now, whether any of these people actually did anything wrong, we don’t know, because we know there have been many, many false accusations,” Dershowitz noted further.
Mitchell, the 91-year-old former Democratic Senate Majority Leader, retired from public life in 2011, while Richardson—who also served as governor of New Mexico—passed away in 2023.
