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Donald Trump has mentioned he would have “no downside” releasing extra recordsdata associated to convicted intercourse trafficker Jeffrey Epstein if he returns to the White Home.
Requested why a so-called “record of shoppers” who had visited Epstein’s personal island had not but been made public, Trump mentioned it “in all probability shall be”.
Scores of names associated with Epstein had been made public this yr when a tranche of courtroom paperwork had been unsealed by a decide in New York.
Public figures together with Prince Andrew, former US President Bill Clinton and Trump himself had been amongst these named within the recordsdata launched in January.
Many names within the paperwork had been talked about in passing and their inclusion doesn’t counsel wrongdoing associated to Epstein.
Requested by pc scientist turned podcaster Lex Fridman why he had “hesitation” concerning the paperwork being launched, Trump, 78, mentioned: “I don’t assume… I’m not concerned. I by no means went to his island, luckily, however lots of people did.”
Pressed on why “so many sensible, highly effective individuals allowed him [Epstein] to get so shut?”, Trump replied: “He was an excellent salesman. He was a hailing, hearty sort of man.
“He had some good property that he’d throw round like islands, however quite a lot of large individuals went to that island. However luckily, I used to be not one among them.”
Mr Fridman mentioned it was “very unusual” {that a} “record of shoppers” who visited Epstein’s island – Little Saint James in the US Virgin Islands – had not been made public.
“It’s very attention-grabbing, isn’t it? It in all probability shall be, by the way in which, in all probability”, Trump mentioned, earlier than including that he’d “actually check out it.”
He added: “Now, [John F] Kennedy’s attention-grabbing as a result of it’s so a few years in the past. They try this for hazard too, as a result of it endangers sure individuals… so Kennedy could be very totally different from the Epstein factor however I’d be inclined to do the Epstein. I’d don’t have any downside with it.”
The paperwork launched in January included depositions, police stories and emails associated to a 2015 defamation case.
The unsealed recordsdata didn’t embrace an inventory of shoppers and it isn’t clear whether or not such a doc exists.
Some components of the Epstein paperwork remained redacted together with these figuring out victims abused by the convicted paedophile.
Epstein dedicated suicide aged 66 on the Metropolitan Correctional Middle in Manhattan in August 2019, whereas awaiting trial on new charges of trafficking teenage girls.
