Trump Gives Eyebrow Raising Response on Epstein Files Release: ‘Innocent People Shouldn’t be Hurt’
President Donald Trump answered questions from reporters in the Oval Office on Friday after an event with the president of FIFA. Trump was asked about the raid on former national security advisor John Bolton’s home and the release of the Epstein Files to Congress, which happened on the same day.
CNN White House reporter Alayna Treene asked Trump, “The Justice Department is also sending some of the Epstein files over to the House Oversight Committee today. Are you in support of them releasing all of them?”
“I’m in support of them keeping it open. Innocent people shouldn’t be hurt, but I’m in support of keeping it totally open. I couldn’t care less,” said Trump, who was reportedly told his name is in the Epstein files.
“You’ve got a lot of people that could be mentioned in those files that don’t deserve to be, you know, people, because he knew everybody in Palm Beach,” Trump replied, adding:
I don’t know anything about that, but I have said to Pam [Bondi] and everybody else, give them everything you can give them, because it’s a Democrat hoax. It’s just a hoax, the whole Epstein thing is a Democrat hoax.
So we had the greatest six months, seven months in the history of the presidency, and the Democrats don’t know what to do, so they keep bringing up that stuff.
But it affected them. Bill Clinton was on his plane and went to the island, supposedly 28 times. I don’t want to bring that up, frankly. You have Larry, whatever his name is, Summers, the head of Harvard, who was Jeffrey Epstein’s best friend. Nobody ever talks about that. I mean, but I don’t want to hurt Larry Summers, but he was best friends with Jeffrey Epstein.
No, this is a Democratic hoax to try and get the significance of what we’ve done over the past seven months. Nobody’s ever seen anything like it. They say it’s number one in history. What we’ve done, including stopping seven wars. I mean, just including that. And now you look at the stock market today, it’s way up to start off with, from where I took it.
“And this market was going to crash. If Joe Biden or Kamala were president, this market would have had a crash like in 1929. You’re not going to have that. It’s only a question of how high it’s going to go. You know, I had the strongest economy in the history of our country. And despite COVID, we had the strongest economy in the history of our country,” Trump continued by boasting of the economy and attacking Democrats.
Watch the clip above via C-SPAN.
