‘Hard to Get It Out of Your Head!’ Psaki Creeped Out by Epstein Victim’s Description of Trump Encounter
MSNBC host Jen Psaki was creeped out by Maria Farmer’s account of meeting then-future President Donald Trump in Jeffrey Epstein’s office, saying it’s “hard to get it out of your head!”
Farmer was the subject of a recent New York Times profile that attempted to connect the dots on Trump’s presence in the so-called “Epstein Files.” She reported Trump to law enforcement twice.
Farmer has described meeting Trump at Epstein’s New York office when the two were still friends, and recalls Epstein telling a lustful Trump “No, no. She’s not here for you.”
White House communications director Steven Cheung denied the story in a statement that read, in part: “The fact is that the President kicked him out of his club for being a creep. This is nothing more than a continuation of the fake news stories concocted by the Democrats and the liberal media.”
On Thursday’s edition of MSNBC’s The Briefing with Jen Psaki, Farmer hit back at the “really insulting” response from Cheung.
Later in the interview, Psaki zeroed in on the interplay between Trump and Epstein, and Farmer explained what it was that made her report Trump to law enforcement — the suspicion that Epstein was procuring a 16-year-old girl for him:
PSAKI: Maria was one of the first women to accuse convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, of sexual assault. And she’s described an alleged encounter with Donald Trump back in 1995 as unsettling.
Thanks, again, for — for being here with all of us. Before the break, we were just talking about that meeting and you responded to a White House comment on it, but I wanted to ask you more personally. I mean, you described that meeting, you heard Donald Trump — or you heard Jeffrey Epstein say to Donald Trump, she’s not for you. What — what was your reaction to that? What was going on in your head at the time about that? What did you think that meant?
FARMER: Right. Well, I already felt kind of intimidated because it was in a dark office. And I was alone with my new boss, you know, to be, and — and this man that’s a powerful businessman. And so I felt — I felt intimidated, but that’s not why I reported him. I reported him because when Epstein came out of the office, I was making a face at him because I felt threatened. And so I went…
(MAKES SOUR EXPRESSION)
FARMER: And he kind of laughed and backed off. And as that was happening, Epstein walked out and said, “oh, no, no, no, she’s not here for you.”
And he emphasized, “She’s not here for you.”
And he said, “Come with me,” and he walked in — he escorted him into another office.
And I was like, who’s in there? And when — when he said, “Oh, I thought she was 16,” I thought, is there a 16-year-old in there? Right?
So what people need to understand is I’m not some crazy person who just reports people if they look at my legs or I’m in an office with them. But when someone is hanging out with a convicted — or a pedophile, and I discover that that pedophile has stolen my little sister, and then there’s a powerful businessman that’s making comments about me being my sister’s age, then I think that the FBI needs to take a good look at it. And so that’s why I asked that they do that.
And as far as like the Republicans have really, really been kind of tormenting the victims. And — and so, that’s a separate topic, but…
PSAKI: I want to ask you about that too, you know, and the part that just kept sticking with me is, she’s not for you. I just don’t know what that meant. None of us know what that meant.
FARMER: Right.
PSAKI: But it is hard to get it out of your head!
Watch above via MSNBC’s The Briefing with Jen Psaki.
