Trump and Clinton downplay links with Epstein, millionaire accused of sexually abusing minors | Society

If billionaire Jeffrey Epstein is sentenced to 45 years in prison for child bad trafficking and conspiracy, he may not be visited by his old friends Donald Trump and Bill Clinton. Since the fund manager was accused of creating a pyramid scheme to recruit girls for badual acts, the two political leaders tried to reduce the profile of their ties in the past. Trump said Tuesday that he "was not an admirer" of the accused, whom he described a few years ago as "an awesome guy". Democrats demand the resignation of Alex Acosta, now secretary of employment and former prosecutor of Epstein case in 2008, for having reached too soft a deal with the millionaire.

Since 66-year-old Epstein was arrested on Saturday, Trump has barely touched on the case. In 2002, it was more eloquent. For a report New YorkThe Republican said he knew the fund manager for over 15 years and said, "They even say that he loves beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are younger." Epstein visited the luxurious Republican private club several times Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida. The president told the White House Tuesday that "I knew him as everyone in Palm Beach knew." He added that they had quarreled long ago and that they have not spoken for 15 years. "I was not a fan of you, I can tell you, I was not an admirer of his," he told reporters. For its part, former President Bill Clinton has preferred that a spokesman issue a statement Monday night to reduce the pressure on his proximity to the accused.

In 2002 and 2003, President Clinton made four trips aboard Jeffrey Epstein's plane: one in Europe, one in Asia and two in Africa, which included stopovers in connection with the work of the Clinton Foundation. ", according to the newspaper. statement, in which refers to the time when the exmandatario rode with members of the secret services to the multimillionaire's private jet, known as the Lolita Express, just as the novel Lolita, of Vlaidmir Nabokov, in which a man badually abuses a minor. This version contradicts the data collected by some media. The Gawker news site published in 2015 that Clinton was listed in the aircraft records for 11 flights and that Fox News has increased this figure to 26 flights.

According to the statement, the Democrat "knows nothing of the terrible crimes that Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty to Florida a few years ago, or of which he was recently charged in New York." The first complaint against Epstein goes back to 2005, when parents of a 14-year-old girl reported a case of badual abuse to police in Palm Beach. From there, the FBI identified more than thirty potential victims, most of them aged 13 to 16. The tycoon defended against accusations that the meetings were spoiled and "I did not know they were minor". According to police reports, the fund manager paid the children the mbadages and offered them extra money to recruit other teens. At the meetings, there was abuse and badual exploitation.

Alex Acosta, the federal prosecutor of the time in Miami, led negotiations with the nabob's lawyers with whom he reached an agreement that avoided federal prosecutions against Epstein, which could have been life sentence. The covenant provided that the accused pleaded guilty to prostituting a minor, was entered in the bad offender register and sentenced to 13 months in prison. In prison, he could leave his office in Palm Beach 12 hours a day, six days a week. The agreement has been severely criticized for the lightness of the sentence. Acosta, current secretary of the Trump Administration, is now in the eye of the storm.

The Democratic Minority Leader of the Senate, Chuck Schumer, said that Acosta would have to leave office because of the pact "of affection" that he had reached with Epstein when he was a prosecutor. . Nancy Pelosi, Democratic leader of the House of Representatives, also called for the resignation of the Secretary of Employment: "As a federal prosecutor, he engaged in an inconceivable agreement with Jeffrey Epstein, who kept secretly brave young victims, preventing them from seeking justice.The Trump administration knew this when he appointed him a cabinet member. "The terms of the 2008 agreement were kept secret and a federal judge ruled in last February that it was illegal. A few days ago, a magistrate authorized the declbadification of nearly 2,000 documents relating to the case.

Under pressure from Democrats on his back, Mr. Acosta said on Twitter on Tuesday that he "was looking forward" to the fact that New York prosecutors are advancing in this case "on the basis of new evidence". The Secretary of State for Employment took the opportunity to support the decisions of the controversial agreement of 2008 on the basis of "evidence available" at the time. "Now that there is new evidence and new evidence, the New York Attorney's Office offers an important opportunity to bring them to justice more fully," he said. Trump announced Tuesday that the situation would be closely monitored "with great care". "I feel very bad for Secretary Acosta because I know him as someone who works very hard and has done a good job, I feel very bad for the whole situation," added the president.