{"id":40976,"date":"2026-02-09T13:17:53","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T18:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=40976"},"modified":"2026-02-09T13:17:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T18:17:53","slug":"danielle-vinson-comments-on-epstein-files-in-the-telegraph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/danielle-vinson-comments-on-epstein-files-in-the-telegraph\/","title":{"rendered":"Danielle Vinson comments on Epstein files in The Telegraph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the Department of Justice&#8217;s latest release of documents concerning Jeffrey Epstein, an American financier and convicted sex offender who died in 2019, many high-profile names emerged including thousands of mentions of Donald Trump and his Mar-a-Lago resort. None, so far, have spelled political disaster for the U.S. president. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/where-the-epstein-file-release-leaves-donald-trump\/ar-AA1VILT9\">The Telegraph<\/a> (via MSN) turned to Furman University Politics and International Affairs Professor Danielle Vinson for comment. She said, \u201cThis time, Trump has emerged mostly unscathed, the people who thought he was involved turned against him long ago and those that support him have proved very adept at finding ways to excuse, rationalize and justify his behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the DOJ&#8217;s latest release of documents about Jeffrey Epstein, The Telegraph turns to Furman&#8217;s Danielle Vinson for her take on the findings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":37486,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2312,32,2587],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-msn-com","category-politics-and-international-affairs","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40976"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40978,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40976\/revisions\/40978"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}