‘The whole thing was a fake': Trump says Democrats could have ‘put things in' the Epstein file
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President Donald Trump on Monday baselessly suggested that any mentions of his name in criminal case files related to deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein would be there as a result of Democratic efforts to ensnare him in a 'hoax.'
Sitting next to British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer during an hour-long media availability at his own Trump Turnberry golf resort in Scotland, Trump called the continuing furor over the case of Epstein, who died by suicide in 2019 while awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges, 'a hoax that's been built up way beyond proportion' and accused his predecessor of having tampered with the infamous case files.
T'hose files were run by the worst scum on Earth. They were run by Comey, they were run by garland, they were run by Biden, and all of the people that actually ran the government, including the auto pen. Those files were run for four years by those people. If they had anything, I assume they would have released it,' he said.
Trump then suggested that his adversaries could have 'easily put something in the files that's a phony' and compared the hypothetical result of such tampering to the infamous, salacious and unverified dossier on his alleged links to Russia that was compiled by ex-MI6 officer Christopher Steele during the 2016 presidential election.
'Christopher Steele, as an example, wrote a book a dossier. We call it the fake news dossier. And the whole thing was a fake. The whole thing was a fake. They could put things in the file that are fake, but those files were run by bad, sick people,' he said.
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