US President Donald Trump has again denied any links to financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Amid the furor caused by the release of the Epstein files, the US president told reporters that he had “nothing to hide”.
Commuters walk past a bus stop near Nine Elms station in London as staff put up a poster featuring US President Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein. (AP)’I have nothing to hide. I was exempted. I am not related to Jeffrey Epstein. They went expecting to find it and found just the opposite. I’m completely exonerated,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One.
The US president accused Epstein of working against him in the 2016 election.
“Actually, Jeffrey Epstein was fighting that I couldn’t be chosen with any writer,” he added.
After the release of the Epstein files, Trump, whose name repeatedly appeared in the files and flight logs, downplayed his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.
Trump claims he broke up with Epstein in the early 2000s after the sex offender hired one of his employees from the Mar-a-Lago estate.
The White House has also dismissed Trump’s links to Epstein. White House press secretary Carolyn Levitt said the US president was consistent and kicked Jeffrey Epstein out of his club at Mar-a-Lago because he was an “assault”.
He added that the release of Epstein’s files shows how transparent Trump is.
“The president has always been consistent and he kicked Jeffrey Epstein out of his club at Mar-a-Lago because Jeffrey Epstein was a creep. And unlike many of the other people named in these files, President Trump has cut ties with Jeffrey Epstein and been honest and transparent about what I’ve said over the years and more than anything the president has said for over three years. Jeffrey Epstein and his Millions of documents related to heinous, heinous crimes only show the level of transparency this president and administration are committed to bringing these files to light,” Levitt was quoted as saying.
Trump on the Epstein fileThe US Department of Justice, in its latest move, released more than three million documents, photos and videos related to the Epstein file. The new document mentions President Trump at least 1,000 times.
However, according to a New York Times report, more than 5,300 files containing more than 38,000 references to Trump, his wife Melania, his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida and other related words and phrases of the US president were found.
While some of the references are benign, many of them contain accounts of sexual assault and rape, which officials say have not been verified.
The DOJ looked into the allegations but said it found no credible information to merit a detailed investigation.
