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Dinner Theater

Everyone's writing about how Trump bombed at the correspondents' dinner. The bigger embarrassment was the press corps that sat there and took it.

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Parker Molloy
Jul 27, 2026
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Wolf Blitzer stood at a podium inside the Presidential Ballroom of the Waldorf Astoria on Friday night, a few feet from the president, and told the White House correspondents' dinner what it has cost the Wall Street Journal to report that Donald Trump once sent Jeffrey Epstein a birthday letter. There's a $20 billion lawsuit, refiled in May after a judg…

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