Epstein affair: Trump wants to draw attention to Clinton

In the affair about the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, US President Donald Trump continues to dispute a personal involvement and instead insists on a “dizziness”. Media reports that the Ministry of Justice already informed him in March that his name appeared in Epstein investigation files, the president denied on Friday. Last US media published documents and photos that indicate an earlier relationship between the Epstein and Trump.

Trump spoke of a “fake file” and blamed the Democratic Party again. He himself “has nothing to do with the man,” emphasized the US President. The press should rather examine the role of former President Bill Clinton and his finance minister Larry Summers, Trump said to journalists in front of the White House.

What Trump means remains unclear. A Clinton spokesman announced in 2019 that the Democrat had had nothing to do with Epstein for more than a decade and knew nothing about the crimes.

Financed Epstein was accused of having misused numerous girls and young women. The billionaire was found hanged in his prison cell in New York in 2019. According to official information, it was a suicide. In parts of the US company, the death of the super rich caused speculation because he had the best contacts in the American high society. Prominent and billionaires went in and out of him-Trump also spent time with Epstein, as several party videos show.

The deputy US Justice Minister Todd Blanche-Trump’s former lawyer-meanwhile once again interviewed the Epstein complaint Maxwell. At the end of 2021, she was sentenced to Epstein as a member of a sex trade ring and is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence in Florida.

Maxwell’s lawyer David Markus said on Friday afternoon that on the second day of the survey in a courthouse in Tallahasee in Florida, she was asked about “everything” “what you can only imagine”. Maxwell “answered every single question,” said Markus in front of journalists without responding to the content. However, the lawyer emphasized that the 20 years in prison Maxwell had not been offered a mitigation for her statements.

On the question of a journalist, Trump said whether he wanted to pardon Maxwell or mitigate her punishment, this is in his power, but he had not yet thought about it. With the survey of Epstein complicit, the US government wants to appease disappointed followers.

For weeks, Trump has even been asked to have all the files opened from the Republicans’ own ranks. That was one of his campaign promises. Many wonder why the US President does not prompt the publication.

Meanwhile, photos and videos generated with AI appeared on the Internet, which Trump and Epstein show with minor girls. At least seven fake photos and a fake video were called up in circulation and millions in online services, the Supervisory Authority Newsguard said on Friday.

The “Wall Street Journal” had reported that the Ministry of Justice Trump had already informed in May that its name appeared several times in the Epstein files. Trump now rejected this: “No, I was never – never informed about it,” said Trump on Friday evening after his arrival in Scotland.

Meanwhile, the same newspaper reported further letters for the alleged birthday album, including one should bear the name Clinton. According to WSJ, a Clinton spokesman rejected a comment-at the same time, he referred to his previous statement.

Epstein had a private island in the Caribbean named Little St. James, which is said to have been a crime scene. Trump now said to journalists before his departure to Scotland: “I’ve never been on the island.” And at the same time claimed: Clinton many times.

In 2019, on the other hand, his spokesman said that Clinton was “never on Little St. James Island, Epstein’s Ranch in New Mexico, or in his residence in Florida”. Clinton made a total of four trips with Epstein’s aircraft in 2002 and 2003 – also in the context of the work of his foundation. In 2002, according to the spokesman, there was a meeting with Epstein in his Harlem office, and at about the same time, Clinton was with an employee and bodyguard during a visit to Epstein’s New York apartment.