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United States President Donald Trump denied Tuesday that he had anything to do with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, as US lawmakers were expected to vote on releasing records related to the disgraced financier.
“As far as the Epstein files…I have nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein,” Trump told reporters at the Oval Office. “I threw him out of my club many years ago because I thought he was a sick pervert.”
Read Also: Trump Demands Probe Into Epstein Links To Bill Clinton
In other news, US President Donald Trump said Friday he wants the Justice Department and FBI to investigate links between the late alleged sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and former Democratic president Bill Clinton.
Seeking to turn the tables after a new trove of Epstein emails reignited questions over his own ties to the disgraced financier, Trump also demanded a probe into US bank JPMorgan Chase, ex-Harvard president Larry Summers and others.
Republican Trump accused rival Democrats of “using the Epstein Hoax” to distract from the party’s recent compromise to end a record US government shutdown, and said the scandal involved “Democrats, not Republicans.”
“I will be asking A.G. Pam Bondi, and the Department of Justice, together with our great patriots at the FBI, to investigate Jeffrey Epstein’s involvement and relationship with Bill Clinton, Larry Summers, Reid Hoffman, J.P. Morgan, Chase, and many other people and institutions,” Trump said on Truth Social.
“Records show that these men, and many others, spent large portions of their life with Epstein, and on his ‘Island.’”
Clinton has long faced scrutiny over his ties to Epstein and flew on his private plane, although he has never been accused of wrongdoing in the scandal.
