In a June 2024 interview with three hosts from the Fox morning show Fox & Friends – including Pete Hegseth, who is now the US defense secretary and Rachel Campos-Duffy, whose husband is now transportation secretary – Donald Trump was asked if he would commit to “declassify the Epstein files” from the federal investigations into the late sex offender he socialized with for more than a decade.
“Yeah, yeah, I would,” Trump answered.
But the version of the interview first broadcast on the show left out what Trump added immediately after that: “I guess I would. I think that less so because you don’t know – you don’t want to affect people’s lives if it’s phoney stuff in there, cause there’s a lot of phony stuff with that whole … world.”
On Friday, as Trump’s justice department moved to comply, at least in part, with the law by releasing millions of files from the federal investigations into Epstein, it has released at least some unverified allegations against him from those files.
One of the documents getting the most attention online is an email from 2020 that includes uncorroborated tips about Trump’s own alleged involvement with Epstein’s victims that were made to the FBI’s National Threat Operations Center.
The document, which was briefly inaccessible after it was posted, has been described as “incriminating Trump” by some critics, but the justice department provided a statement to the Guardian calling these uncorroborated tips “fake”.
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