The President of the United States, Donald Trump, said on Monday: “People in the past may, you know, innocently met him. They’re going to be victims because this footage is going to come out, and their lives will be ruined.”
“It was a fantastic weekend,” Trump said in response to questions about Epstein and his death by asphyxiation in a Manhattan jail cell while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
“People were saying it’s a tremendous distraction,” Trump said about criticisms concerning Epstein during his first
“This whole thing with Epstein is a way of trying to deflect from the tremendous success that the Republican Party has,” he said from his residence in Mar-a-Lago.
Ex-President Bill Clinton featured prominently in the first set of photos that were released to the world by the Department of Justice, and Trump sought a response to this.
“I like Bill Clinton. I’ve always had a good relationship with Bill Clinton. I hate to see the pictures that come out of him,” he said.
“There are photos of me too,” Trump added. “Everyone knew this guy (Epstein).”
The release of photographs of Clinton and others was referred to as a “terrible thing” by Trump.
“Bill Clinton’s a big boy, he can handle it,” he said.
“But you likely have pictures of other folks who innocently met Jeffrey Epstein, years ago, years ago, and they’re some of the most well-respected bankers and lawyers and whatever.”
“A lot of people are very angry that pictures are being released of other people that really had nothing to do with Epstein,” said the Republican president. “But they’re in a picture with him because he was at a party and you ruin a reputation of somebody,” he said. Epstein was a wealthy and well-connected financier who died in a cell in a New York jail in 2019 while awaiting trial on charges of sex trafficking in a suspected suicide.
