Trump cranks up distraction machine but focus refuses to budge from Epstein

The president is a master of look over there' - but not when his supporters' core beliefs about the deep state' are in play

Donald Trump displayed the subtlety of a sledgehammer. Sitting in the Oval Office, he was asked by a reporter about the justice department's hunt for evidence about the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. I don't really follow that too much," he said. It's sort of a witch-hunt."

And then the pivot: The witch-hunt you should be talking about is that they caught President Obama absolutely cold." Trump was claiming a plot by Barack Obama to rig the 2016 election, accusing his predecessor of treason". For good measure he warned: Whether it's right or wrong, it's time to go after people."