MSNBC host Jen Psaki accidentally called President Donald Trump a “predator” on live television Wednesday — then immediately tried to walk it back.
While speaking with Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia about newly released Jeffrey Epstein emails, Psaki said, “You’re talking about the other predators that are out there in addition to Trump,” before realizing what she had just said.
She quickly corrected herself: “Not that — I’m not saying he is. We don’t know all the details about that.”
But the damage was already done. Conservatives quickly accused the former Biden press secretary of saying out loud what liberal media figures actually think.
The new documents, released by House Democrats, include thousands of pages of Epstein’s emails and records. In one 2011 exchange with Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein claimed Trump had visited his home with a woman whose name was redacted — a woman Democrats now claim was Virginia Giuffre.
The White House immediately pushed back, calling the email dump a politically motivated hit job.
“The Democrats selectively leaked emails to the liberal media to create a fake narrative to smear President Trump,” said White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt.
Leavitt pointed out that Giuffre herself publicly stated Trump never did anything wrong and was kind to her in their limited interactions.
“The fact remains that President Trump kicked Jeffrey Epstein out of his club decades ago for being a creep to his female employees,” Leavitt said.
Psaki, who served as Joe Biden’s mouthpiece before joining MSNBC, has made a career out of attacking Trump — but her on-air slip shows how desperate the left has become to tie the president to Epstein, despite years of failed attempts and no evidence of wrongdoing.
Even Rep. Garcia used the moment to claim, without proof, that Trump was “hiding” facts about Epstein’s crimes.
For conservatives, it was just another example of the media saying the quiet part out loud — and then pretending it never happened.