Politics
WATCH: Trump Loses Patience, Publicly Exposes Prominent Democrat’s Epstein Island Visits
President Donald Trump is reportedly “furious” about the incessant questions he continues to receive on his decades-old relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, a sentiment that boiled over during an appearance in Scotland on Monday.
A question from the traveling White House press corps set off Trump, who truculently attacked Epstein as a “creep” who was thrown out of Mar-a-Lago after harassing women at his golf resort.
“I threw Epstein out. Persona non grata. And that was it. I’m glad I did. And by the way, I never went to the island. And Bill Clinton went there supposedly 28 times,” he said angrily.
Trump’s answer harkens back to last week’s revelation that President Clinton allegedly contributed to a booklet of well-wishes presented to Epstein for his 50th birthday. Clinton is said to have praised Epstein for his “childlike curiosity,” according to the Wall Street Journal.
“It’s reassuring isn’t it, to have lasted as long, across all the years of learning and knowing, adventures and [illegible word], and also to have your childlike curiosity, the drive to make a difference and the solace of friends,” Clinton’s letter allegedly reads.
A spokesman said Clinton “knows nothing about the terrible crimes Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty to in Florida some years ago, or those with which he has been recently charged in New York,” according to a statement.
Also last week, the Journal reported that U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi allegedly warned Trump that his name appeared on several documents in troves that have yet to be declassified. Trump is said to have been unconcerned and deferred to Bondi about releasing the documents.
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Clinton was previously listed in flight logs released in 2023, confirming his visits to the notorious Epstein compound in the U.S. Virgin Islands, where a vast majority of underage sexual abuse occurred.
Efforts to bring transparency to the Epstein saga hit a snag last week when a federal judge denied Bondi’s request to release evidence presented to a grand jury before Epstein was arrested in 2019. Conversely, Deputy U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche met with Ghislaine Maxwell for nine hours and allegedly obtained the names of “100 individuals” tied to Epstein who have not yet been named.
It now falls on Trump and Bondi to determine whether to release those names, which Maxwell, Epstein’s mistress, provided with the implicit message that she is seeking a reduction in her sentence in exchange. Trump last week downplayed fears by victims of Epstein that he would pardon Maxwell.
