White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been challenged to explain how the push for transparency over child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was a hoax designed to smear the president.

As the firestorm over the Epstein files continued on Tuesday, Leavitt was grilled in the briefing room about the contents of a sexually suggestive book allegedly gifted to Epstein for his 50th birthday in 2003.

The book was filled with personal letters and memories from his famous friends, including a lewd drawing of a naked woman with Trump’s purported signature in place of pubic hair.

But the White House insists that the letter and signature are not the president’s, and has branded calls for complete transparency over the Epstein files as a Democratic “hoax.”

Asked to explain this theory on Tuesda

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