""Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein? This guy's been talked about for years. Are people still talking about this guy? This creep? That is unbelievable," Donald Trump scolded a reporter who asked about Epstein in July. Trump went on to suggest that the question was a "desecration" of the memory of those who had recently died in floods in the Texas Hill Country."
"It was a strangely aggressive reaction from the man whose most fervent supporters had spent years talking about Epstein, the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender who died in prison before his last trial, in which he faced charges for the trafficking of minors. (His associate Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison on child sex-trafficking charges.) During the 2024 campaign, Trump, when asked, pledged to release documents related to the investigation, commonly referred to as the "Epstein files.""
"On Wednesday, congressional lawmakers released thousands of emails from the Epstein estate. House Democrats highlighted three, including one in which Epstein told Maxwell that one of the women who accused him of abuse had "spent hours at my house" with Trump. "Of course he knew about the girls as he asked ghislaine to stop," Epstein wrote in 2019 to the journalist Michael Wolff."
Donald Trump reacted angrily when asked about Jeffrey Epstein, calling questions a "desecration" of flood victims' memory. Epstein, a convicted sex offender who died in prison, faced trafficking charges; associate Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years for child sex trafficking. During the 2024 campaign, Trump pledged to release related documents, fueling belief among supporters that the files would expose a secret cabal of Democratic pedophiles. Congressional lawmakers released thousands of emails from the Epstein estate that include exchanges between Epstein and Maxwell, one asserting a woman had "spent hours at my house" with Trump and Epstein discussing how Trump might respond to reporters.
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