Trump denied Epstein’s letter and will not rule out Gislane Maxwell’s pardon
President Donald Trump explained that he had dropped out of Jeffrey Epstein during a meeting with Scotland’s British Prime Minister.
President Donald Trump called Gislaine Maxwell, a key fellow Jeffrey Epstein, who has sentenced him to 20 years in prison for sexual abuse, “was allowed,” but no one ever asked him about it and said it was “inappropriate” to discuss it.
Trump made his most widespread and seemingly widespread statement at Maxwell in question from a reporter when he met with British Prime Minister Kiel Starmer at Trump Turnberry Golf Club in Scotland on July 28th.
Reporters asked Trump if he would “consider” Maxwell’s pardon, who met with Associate Attorney General Todd Blanche last week two days to answer questions about Epstein. Critics said the meeting with Blanche, a former Trump personal defense lawyer, was part of the White House’s efforts to quell the backlash against the processing of thousands of Epstein-related files that own Epstein-related files.
“Well, I’m allowed to pardon her, but no one approached me. No one asked me about it,” Trump said. “That’s the news about it, that aspect, but for now it’s inappropriate to talk about it.”
On July 28, Trump also fought back against questions about whether he told him that his name was mentioned in the federal government’s Epstein Files, as his Attorney General Pam Bondy reported last week.
“I wasn’t particularly interested in that,” Trump said. “It’s a hoax that’s built beyond proportion.”
Trump has since proposed without evidence that former President Joe Biden, then-President Kamala Harris, FBI director James Comey and Attorney General Merrick Garland were able to file documents that committed fake crimes about him.
“I can say this. These files were run by Scum, the worst on the planet. They were run by Comey. They were run by Garland. They were run by Biden and all the people who actually run the government,” Trump said. “These files were run by those people for four years. If they had something (trump), I think they’d released it.”
The president has rejected another Wall Street Journal report. He said he painted a photo of a naked woman as part of an obscene birthday letter from Epstein’s close friend decades ago. This was part of a book edited by Maxwell and included contributions from other well-known people, including former President Bill Clinton, the Journal reported.
“It was one of my very good moments and I refused it.”
Trump of Scotland has also denied that he has been to Epstein’s Caribbean island, where sex trafficking of young girls was allegedly occurring.
“I refused because I didn’t have the privilege of going to his island, but a lot of people in Palm Beach were invited to his island,” Trump said. “It was one of my very good moments and I refused it. I didn’t want to go to his island.”
Trump also provided an explanation of why he broke his friendship with Epstein after the two were best friends for many years.
“He did something inappropriate and didn’t talk to Jeffrey Epstein. …He stole people who worked for me. He did it again and I drove him out of the place,” Trump said, referring to his Mar-A-Lago club and residence.
“Unattractive person,” Trump supported.
“We’re not talking to the president,” says Maxwell’s lawyer.
Trump’s comments said three days after Maxwell’s lawyer said on July 25 that he hoped that Trump was forgiving former British socialites for sex trafficking crimes.
After a second day interview with a client with Blanche in Tallahassee, Florida, David Marx spoke to a reporter nearby where Maxwell has sentenced him to 20 years for trafficking Miners to Epstein for sexual abuse.
When asked to reporters about Trump’s comments about a potential pardon, Marx told reporters, “We haven’t spoken about pardons to the president or anyone yet.”
But Marx said, “The President has the power to do so this morning. I hope he will exercise that power just on the road.”
When Trump was asked last week if he thought he was already forgiveing Maxwell, he said no.
“I’m allowed to do that, but that’s something I didn’t think about,” Trump told reporters. “I certainly can’t speak about pardons right now.”
A meeting with Maxwell with Blanche, the Department of Justice’s second official, is a bipartisan group of lawmakers to release more information the DOJ owns about Epstein’s clients, in calls from the public.
Public protests were made by the Justice Department and the FBI earlier this month to encourage them not to release their Epstein-related files, despite their commitments to do so.
Since then, pressure has been undertaken for the administration to rethink it. This includes members of Trump’s own base who were so disappointed by the announcement.
That was especially true after the Wall Street Journal reported in May that Trump notified Trump that his name had appeared on the file “multiple times.” The president sued the newspaper about his honor and loss for reporting that he had written Epstein’s birthday message.
