Former President Donald Trump declared Tuesday that he’d have “no problem” releasing more official files related to Jeffrey Epstein if elected, including the late sex offender’s “client list.”
During an appearance on “The Lex Fridman Podcast,” Trump, 78, insisted that he never visited the dead financier and alleged sex trafficker’s notorious private island, where scores of young women and underage girls were allegedly abused, but that “a lot of big people” did.
“I don’t think – I mean, I’m not involved,” the Republican nominee for president said when host Lex Fridman suggested that he had shown “some hesitation” about releasing documents related to Epstein.
“I never went to his island, fortunately, but a lot of people did,” Trump continued.
The former president argued that Epstein was a “good salesman” who “had some nice assets that he’d throw around, like islands,” when asked why so many high-powered executives, politicians, and royalty have been linked to the multi-millionaire pedophile.
“But a lot of big people went to that island. Fortunately, I was not one of them,” Trump reiterated.
Epstein pleaded guilty in 2008 to procuring a child for prostitution and of soliciting a prostitute. He was sentenced to 18 months in jail for the crimes.
Epstein was busted again in 2019, accused of sexually abusing dozens of young girls in his Upper East Side townhouse and his waterfront mansion in Palm Beach, Fla., between 2002 and 2005.
The 66-year-old pedophile was found dead in his Manhattan jail cell in August 2019 and his death was ruled a suicide. He had faced up to 45 years in prison.
In January, unsealed court documents filed in Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre’s 2015 defamation suit against the sex offender’s “madam” Ghislaine Maxwell showed dozens of high-profile names among the more than 170 people with ties to Epstein.
“Yeah, it’s very interesting, isn’t it?” Trump responded when Fridman described it as “very strange” that a complete list of Epstein’s “clients” that visited his Little St. James island in the Caribbean has not been made public.
“It probably will be, by the way,” Trump added. “I’d certainly take a look at it.”
After noting his desire to quickly release documents related to the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy, if elected, Trump clarified that he’d be willing to do the same with the Epstein files.
“But yeah, I’d be inclined to do the Epstein,” Trump said. “I’d have no problem with it.”
