US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters on the South Garden earlier than boarding Marine One on the South Garden of the White Home on July 25, 2025, in Washington, DC en path to Turnberry, Scotland.
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President Donald Trump on Friday deflected questions on his former pal Jeffrey Epstein as Epstein’s convicted intercourse offender confederate Ghislaine Maxwell was set to fulfill with a high Division of Justice official in Florida for the second day in a row.
“I’ve nothing to do with the man,” Trump stated of Epstein, with whom he had socialized for years earlier than falling out with the now-dead pedophile within the mid-2000s.
Trump as an alternative stated folks ought to concentrate on others who, like him, had beforehand socialized with Epstein, amongst them former President Invoice Clinton and ex-Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, who additionally served as president of Harvard College.
Folks “do not speak about them. They speak about me,” Trump griped earlier than departing for a visit to Scotland.
“You need to concentrate on Clinton. You need to concentrate on the president of Harvard, the previous president of Harvard, you must concentrate on a few of the hedge fund guys,” Trump stated.
“I will offer you an inventory. These guys lived with Jeffrey Epstein, I positive as hell did not.”
Requested if he was contemplating a pardon for Maxwell — who’s serving a 20-year jail sentence for procuring and grooming younger ladies to be sexually abused by Epstein — Trump stated, “I actually cannot speak about pardons.”
Trump has confronted rising stress to launch details about Epstein after the DOJ earlier this month reneged on guarantees by Lawyer Common Pam Bondi and high FBI officers to reveal recordsdata felony investigators assembled of their intercourse trafficking probe of Epstein.
Trump final week ordered Bondi to hunt the unsealing of grand jury transcripts associated to investigations of Epstein and Maxwell, shortly after The Wall Road Journal reported he had despatched a “bawdy” letter to Epstein in 2003 for the cash supervisor’s fiftieth birthday.
“I do not even know what they’re speaking about. Now, any individual might have written a letter and used my identify, however that is occurred loads,” Trump stated in regards to the letter on Friday.
On Tuesday, Deputy Lawyer Common Todd Blanche stated he would search to fulfill Maxwell and ask her if she had details about different individuals who had probably abused underage ladies and younger ladies related to Epstein. Blanche is a former felony protection lawyer for Trump.
Blanche met for hours with Maxwell and her lawyer on Thursday in U.S. District Court docket in Tallahassee, Florida, the identical metropolis the place she is serving her jail time period.
A second sit-down was scheduled for Friday.
Maxwell’s lawyer, David Oscar Marku,s spoke to reporters on his means into the courthouse Friday.
‘”We’re hoping for one more productive day,” Markus stated, earlier than including: “Ghislaine has been handled unfairly for over 5 years now.”
“For those who regarded up scapegoat within the dictionary, her face can be subsequent to the definition subsequent to the dictionary definition of it,” he stated. “So, you already know, we’re grateful for this chance to lastly have the ability to say what actually occurred, and that is what we will do yesterday and at this time.”
Markus stated that Maxwell has “been in horrible, terrible circumstances for 5 years. We would not preserve animals the best way she’s been stored in jail.”
“We simply ask that people take a look at what she has to say with an open thoughts, and that is what Deputy Lawyer Common Todd Blanche has promised us, and every part she says will be corroborated and and he or she’s telling the reality,” Markus stated.
“She’s acquired no purpose to lie at this level, and he or she’s going to maintain telling the reality.”
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