ABC News claimed it never nixed the Epstein story and never stopped investigating it.
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ABC News claimed it never nixed the Epstein story and never stopped investigating it Jeffrey Epstein
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- ABC News restatement · zero weight hedged
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- ABC News claimed it never nixed the Epstein story and never stopped investigating it.
ABC News would later claim that it had never nixed the story, stating that at the time of Robach’s comments, not all of our reporting met our standards to air, but we have never stopped investigating the story.
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Origin: extracted from ABC News had the goods on Jeffrey Epstein years ago — and killed the story · 2026-09-13 23:31