Despite Trump saying there are no more Epstein files, Lara Trump says he will release more Epstein files
In an interview with right-wing broadcaster Benny Johnson on Monday, Lara Trump — who is married to Trump's son Eric — said that the President wanted to 'set things right' and would release more documents sooner rather than later.
Her words contradicted the Trump administration's announcement last week there is actually no 'Epstein client list' and that no further disclosures are 'appropriate or warranted', as well as Trump's own pleading with his supporters to drop the subject.
That came after many months of Trump officials and outriders trumpeting the imminent release of bombshell secret Epstein documents, including the paedophile financier's supposed 'client list'.
The abrupt about-face sparked fury among Trump's fan base, who had been primed to expect the unravelling of a vast child abuse conspiracy centered on Trump's political opponents.
'Look, I don't know what truly exists there, but I know this is something that's important to the President as well,' Lara Trump said in her interview with Johnson.
'He does want transparency on all these fronts, everything we're talking about. Because it's frustrated him as well. He sat for four years like the rest of us did and saw lie after lie and our country just being sent down the wrong path...
'I know this is probably not his number one thing he's focused on... but he hears all the noise, and he hears all the consternation out there, and I think he's gonna want to set things right as well.
'So I believe that there will probably be more coming on this, and I believe anything that they are able to release — that doesn't damage any witnesses or anyone underage, or anything like that — I believe they'll probably try to get out sooner rather than later.'
Trump's own statements have set a very different tone, suggesting that the so-called 'Epstein files' were merely a hoax concocted by his enemies in order to persecute him.
'We have a PERFECT Administration, THE TALK OF THE WORLD, and 'selfish people' are trying to hurt it — all over a guy who never dies, Jeffrey Epstein,' he said on his social network Truth Social on Saturday.
'For years, it's Epstein, over and over again... let's not waste Time and Energy on Jeffrey Epstein, somebody that nobody cares about.'
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