President Donald Trump was very angry to be asked Tuesday by the late Jeffrey Epstein a day after the FBI confirmed his death for suicide and concluded that there is no evidence that the tycoon, accused of sexual trafficking of minors, maintained a “list of clients” to blackmail them.
“Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein? You have talked about this type for years. You are asking and we have the (floods in) Texas, we have this, we have all these things. And they are still talking about this type, of this disgusting? It is incredible,” he exclaimed after hearing a question from a journalist during a meeting of his cabinet open to the press.
The question referred to a video made public on Monday by the Department of Justice shown in the footage of security cameras taken in the Federal Prison where the millionaire was retained the night in which he died in 2019.
The video reflects that no one agreed to his cell during the hours before his death.
Specifically, the question asked Trump referred to what was reported by some media, which claim that a minute of the footage is missing, between 23.59 of August 9, 2019 and midnight on August 10.
“Do you want to waste your time and you want to answer?” Trump told the attorney general, Pam Bondi, who agreed to answer, although he also showed his anger.
In this regard, Bondi considered that, taking into account the tragedy of floods in Texas where more than 100 people have died, the question seemed “a real desecration.”
See: the FBI concludes that Jeffrey Epstein did not have a ‘customer list’
The Attorney General explained that, for a protocol of the Prison Office, every night the video recording is restarted, “so that the same minute must be missing every night.”
The relationship between Trump and Epstein
The findings of the FBI report, detailed on Monday in a memorandum reviewed by the Digital Axios and the ABC News chain, constitute the first official refusal to conspiracy theories about an alleged list of influential personalities associated with Epstein and a possible murder to silence it.
In June of this year, in full confrontation in social networks with Trump, the tycoon Elon Musk said in X that the president was on the Epstein list and that for that reason the Department of Justice had not made public the archives of the investigation into the millionaire.
Trump and Epstein maintained a personal and social relationship between the eighties and the first decade of this century. In 2002, Trump said: “I know Jeff for 15 years. He is a fantastic guy,” in a statement to the magazine New York In 2002.
And he added that: “It is very fun to be with him. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as he, and many of them are younger. There is no doubt: Jeffrey enjoys his social life.”
However, the investigations of the authorities have not corroborated that the president has participated in any criminal activity in relation to the financial magnate.
With EFE information
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