US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters on the South Lawn before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House on July 25, 2025, in Washington, DC en route to Turnberry, Scotland.
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President Donald Trump on Friday deflected questions about his former friend Jeffrey Epstein as Epstein’s convicted sex offender accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell was set to meet with a top Department of Justice official in Florida for the second day in a row.
“I have nothing to do with the guy,” Trump said of Epstein, with whom he had socialized for years before falling out with the now-dead pedophile in the mid-2000s.
Speaking to reporters, Trump suggested that people “should focus on the fact that” Epstein’s “really close friends” included former President Bill Clinton and former Treasury secretary and Harvard University president Larry Summers.
“And they should speak about that because they don’t talk about them. They talk about me,” Trump griped before departing for a trip to Scotland.
The president also again denied writing what the Wall Street Journal has described as a “bawdy” letter to Epstein in 2003 for the money manager’s 50th birthday.
“I don’t even know what they’re talking about. Now, somebody could have written a letter and used my name, but that’s happened a lot,” Trump said.
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