Former President Donald Trump declared Tuesday that he’d have “no drawback” releasing extra official information associated to Jeffrey Epstein if elected, together with the late intercourse offender’s “consumer checklist.”
Throughout an look on “The Lex Fridman Podcast,” Trump, 78, insisted that he by no means visited the lifeless financier and alleged intercourse trafficker’s infamous personal island, the place scores of younger ladies and underage women had been allegedly abused, however that “plenty of massive individuals” did.
“I don’t suppose – I imply, I’m not concerned,” the Republican nominee for president stated when host Lex Fridman steered that he had proven “some hesitation” about releasing paperwork associated to Epstein.
“I by no means went to his island, happily, however lots of people did,” Trump continued.
The previous president argued that Epstein was a “good salesman” who “had some good property that he’d throw round, like islands,” when requested why so many high-powered executives, politicians, and royalty have been linked to the multi-millionaire pedophile.
“However plenty of massive individuals went to that island. Fortuitously, I used to be not considered one of them,” Trump reiterated.
Epstein pleaded responsible in 2008 to procuring a baby for prostitution and of soliciting a prostitute. He was sentenced to 18 months in jail for the crimes.
Epstein was busted once more in 2019, accused of sexually abusing dozens of younger women in his Higher East Facet townhouse and his waterfront mansion in Palm Seaside, Fla., between 2002 and 2005.
The 66-year-old pedophile was discovered lifeless in his Manhattan jail cell in August 2019 and his demise was dominated a suicide. He had confronted as much as 45 years in jail.
In January, unsealed court docket paperwork filed in Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre’s 2015 defamation go well with in opposition to the intercourse offender’s “madam” Ghislaine Maxwell confirmed dozens of high-profile names among the many greater than 170 individuals with ties to Epstein.
“Yeah, it’s very attention-grabbing, isn’t it?” Trump responded when Fridman described it as “very unusual” {that a} full checklist of Epstein’s “purchasers” that visited his Little St. James island within the Caribbean has not been made public.
“It most likely shall be, by the best way,” Trump added. “I’d actually check out it.”
After noting his want to shortly launch paperwork associated to the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy, if elected, Trump clarified that he’d be keen to do the identical with the Epstein information.
“However yeah, I’d be inclined to do the Epstein,” Trump stated. “I’d don’t have any drawback with it.”
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