The spell of Jeffrey Epstein haunts the White House

June 14, 2026 — 4:00pm SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Share AAA Spells are all the rage. As Bloomberg reported this past week, brides are buying $US14 spells from witches on Etsy to ensure that their $US100,000 weddings are not marred . The Blumhouse low-budget horror sensation Obsession – which is helping lure Gen Z back to theatres – is about a young man who buys a “One Wish Willow”, a magic stick that promises to grant a wish once you snap it in two. He desires to win the love of a comely young friend. But the obsession goes gruesomely awry. If President Donald Trump takes a break from his frenzied, late-night Truth Social screeds, he might try scrolling Etsy for bespoke spells. Nothing else is working to banish the creepy spectre of Jeffrey Epstein from his life. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room opens to the public in Washington DC, where approximately 3.5 million pages of public records of the Epstein files are on display, AP Photo/Rod LamkeyMany in Trump’s conspiracy-prone base feel they have not gotten the full story on the heinous paedophile – and they haven’t. Whether Trump’s lack of candour was to protect his friends, as Marjorie Taylor Greene said he told her, or to protect himself, it’s all still murky. Trump knows who he is and what he did with his longtime pal, but he’s doing his best to keep it from us. No amount of macho beatdowns in the UFC cage matches on the White House lawn will make anyone forget Epstein’s depredations. But after a week bristling with lurid revelations about the slimeball, one thing is clear: no matter how much Trump wishes him away, Jeffrey Epstein is continuing to haunt Trump and is persisting as a national obsession. Trump’s special ability to create a distraction and an alternative narrative is failing him here. No one will look away from the ghoul who was Trump’s swingers-style wingman in Manhattan and Palm Beach. Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, arrives on Capitol Hill for a closed-door interview with the House Oversight Committee investigating convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, in Washington on June 10. AP Photo/Jose Luis MaganaThe House Oversight Committee had closed-door meetings this past week trying to get to the bottom of the murk, which Democrats on the committee called “the biggest cover-up in American history”.