Epstein Victims’ Lawyer Calls Out Trump for Flip Flopping After ‘Helping’ On Epstein Case: ‘He Didn’t Think It Was a Hoax Then!’
An attorney representing some of the victims of convicted predator Jeffrey Epstein called out President Donald Trump for his flip flop on the issue, saying Trump “helped” during the original Epstein investigation.
Lawyer Bradley Edwards joined Reps. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Ro Khanna (D-LA), along with a number of Epstein victims, on Wednesday in a press conference calling for more files related to Epstein to be released. During the Q&A portion of the press conference, Trump’s comments referring to Epstein files as a “hoax” were brought up.
Edwards noted that in 2009 that Trump, a former friend of Epstein’s, was helpful during an investigation into Epstein, but now his public comments paint a completely different attitude. Epstein was convicted in 2008 of soliciting prostitution from a minor. He died of an apparent suicide in 2019 while awaiting sex trafficking charges.
“He didn’t think that it was a hoax then. In fact, he helped me. He got on the phone. He told me things that were helping our investigation. Now, our investigation wasn’t looking into him, but he was helping us then. He didn’t treat this as a hoax,” Edwards told reporters.
Trump has said he’s open to more Epstein files being released, but he’s faced pushback from even his own MAGA supporters since the Department of Justice/FBI released a memo denying the existence of files related to Epstein that would implicate other high profile people who took part in his decades of abuse.
Edwards said on Wednesday that he and the victims do not understand Trump’s “about face” on Epstein.
“At this point in time, I would hope that he would revert back to what he was saying to get elected, which is ‘I want transparency.’ This about face that occurred, none of us understand it,” the attorney said. “In fact, I don’t understand how this is an issue that’s even up for debate.”
When Trump’s comments were brought up later, Edwards described Trump as “friendly” during the original investigation and pushed for him to go back to that support.
“I’m hoping he’ll come back to where he was back in 2009 and be on the side of the victims and stand with us,” he said.
In comments to the press on Wednesday, Trump doubled down on his Epstein comments, calling the story a “Democratic hoax that never ends.”
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