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India Today
6 days ago
- Politics
- India Today
Sleeping with married women: Does a crass joke reveal Trump-Epstein close ties?
Newly uncovered archival footage and photographs have reignited scrutiny of President Donald Trump's past ties with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. The most striking revelation is Epstein's confirmed presence at Trump's 1993 wedding to Marla Maples, which was not widely known until now, according to a CNN an anecdote shared by Mark Epstein, Jeffrey Epstein's brother, paints an even closer picture of Trump-Epstein's past relationship. Speaking to CNN, Mark recalled a conversation Jeffrey had with Trump in told me he asked Donald, 'How come you sleep with so many married women?'" Mark said. Trump's reply was "Because it's so wrong," Mark told CNN. Footage from a 1999 Victoria's Secret fashion show in New York shows Trump and Epstein laughing and chatting together ahead of the runway event, CNN broadcaster's KFILE uncovered the raw footage during a review of archival video of Trump at events in the 1990s and 2000s. Trump and Epstein appeared together in at least one video among the limited archival footage reviewed. KFILE is the leading investigation team for the social and mobile newly surfaced photos and footage come as Trump's past ties to Epstein is under hosted a party with "young women" that was only attended by the child sex offender, according to a report by The New York Times (NYT). The report came days after the Wall Street Journal stated that Trump sent Epstein a provocative birthday note featuring a nude sketch of a woman along with a cryptic CALLS CNN REPORT 'FAKE NEWS', WHITE HOUSE TERMS REPORT 'OUT OF CONTEXT'When the broadcaster contacted Trump this week for comment, he dismissed the outlet as "fake news".On being asked about the wedding photos, Trump responded, "You've got to be kidding me," before repeatedly calling CNN "fake news" and hanging up, CNN White House also rejected the report, calling it "out-of-context."In a statement to CNN, White House Communications Director Steven Cheung said, "These are nothing more than out-of-context frame grabs of innocuous videos and pictures of widely attended events to disgustingly infer something nefarious."The fact is that the President kicked him out of his club for being a creep. This is nothing more than a continuation of the fake news stories concocted by the Democrats and the liberal media," CNN quoted Cheung as SAYS A JOKE INDICATES HOW CLOSE EPSTEIN WAS TO TRUMPEpstein's brother, Mark, told CNN's Erin Burnett about his late brother's "very close" friendship with Donald Trump in the 1990s, according to the report."I know Donald was in Jeff's office a lot back in the 1990s," Mark went ahead and shared the anecdote."We were talking and – well, stick a pin in that – a couple of weeks or a week before that flight, I was talking to Jeffrey, and he told me that he was talking to Donald, and he asked Donald, 'How come you sleep with so many married women?'"advertisementTo which Trump replied: "Because it's so wrong," according to Mark."Now, among guys, it was a funny line, and then when we were on the plane a week or two later, Jeffrey asked Donald the same question. I know he did that for my benefit so that I could hear Donald say it," Mark further Trump's answer was the same: "Because it's so wrong.""That's not the kind of question you ask a casual acquaintance," Mark a financier who socialised with a range of politicians and powerful figures, was charged in 2019 with sex trafficking minors in Florida and New York. He was later found dead in his jail cell while awaiting trial, CNN reported.- EndsTrending Reel
Yahoo
04-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
JD Vance applauded Trump's tariff announcement from the Rose Garden - after spending years calling them a terrible idea
Since the Trump administration rolled out sweeping worldwide tariffs, unsettling global financial markets, Vice President JD Vance has been one of the White House's key messengers, taking to the airwaves to tout his 'enthusiasm' for the unprecedented shift. However, before he was a spokesman for the Trump Liberation Day tariffs, Vance was critical of the very same policies, including directly rebuking Trump when he talked about similar measures during his first term, according to an analysis from CNN's KFILE. The Trump administration's major argument for the tariffs has been that they will encourage firms to bring manufacturing jobs back to the U.S., claims Vance once dismissed out of hand. The former senator for Ohio once called fighting for such jobs 'yesterday's war,' and used other comments to advocate for education and retraining as ways to lift American workers instead. 'So many of these jobs that have disappeared from these areas just aren't coming back. They haven't disappeared so much from globalization or from shipping them overseas,' he said in 2017. 'They've largely disappeared because of automation and because of new technological change.' Elsewhere, Vance responded directly to Trump's long-running calls for tariffs. 'Can't be repeated enough: if you're worried about America's economic interest, focus more on automation/education than trade protectionism,' Vance wrote on what was then Twitter in 2017, after Trump met with manufacturing CEOs that year. 'Vice President Vance has been crystal clear in his unwavering support for revitalizing the American economy by bringing back manufacturing jobs and sticking up for middle class workers and families since before he launched his U.S. Senate race, and that is a large part of why he was elected to public office in the first place,' a spokesperson for Vance told the KFILE. The resurfaced trade comments are the latest example of Vance having to justify his past, often strident, criticisms of Trump and his ideas. Vance, who once flatly declared himself a 'Never Trump guy' who 'never liked' the New York Republican, has reportedly previously called Trump a "fraud," a "moral disaster," a "cynical a**hole," a "bad man," and suggested he could be "America's Hitler." He also once reportedly said Trump had "thoroughly failed to deliver his economic populism.' Vance began to change his tone towards Trump after his best-selling memoir Hillbilly Elegy and association with investor Peter Thiel helped him become a rising star in Republican politics. 'I did say those critical things and I regret them, and I regret being wrong about the guy,' Vance said during his 2021 campaign for Senate. 'I think he was a good president, I think he made a lot of good decisions for people, and I think he took a lot of flak.' During the 2024 campaign, Vance said "dishonest fabrications" in the media previously misled him about Trump. "I've always been extremely open about the fact that I was wrong about Donald Trump," Vance said during a vice-presidential debate. "I was wrong first of all because I believed some of the media stories that turned out to be dishonest fabrications of his record.
The Independent
04-04-2025
- Business
- The Independent
JD Vance applauded Trump's tariff announcement from the Rose Garden - after spending years calling them a terrible idea
Since the Trump administration rolled out sweeping worldwide tariffs, unsettling global financial markets, Vice President JD Vance has been one of the White House's key messengers, taking to the airwaves to tout his 'enthusiasm' for the unprecedented shift. However, before he was a spokesman for the Trump Liberation Day tariffs, Vance was critical of the very same policies, including directly rebuking Trump when he talked about similar measures during his first term, according to an analysis from CNN's KFILE. The Trump administration's major argument for the tariffs has been that they will encourage firms to bring manufacturing jobs back to the U.S., claims Vance once dismissed out of hand. The former senator for Ohio once called fighting for such jobs 'yesterday's war,' and used other comments to advocate for education and retraining as ways to lift American workers instead. 'So many of these jobs that have disappeared from these areas just aren't coming back. They haven't disappeared so much from globalization or from shipping them overseas,' he said in 2017. 'They've largely disappeared because of automation and because of new technological change.' Elsewhere, Vance responded directly to Trump's long-running calls for tariffs. 'Can't be repeated enough: if you're worried about America's economic interest, focus more on automation/education than trade protectionism,' Vance wrote on what was then Twitter in 2017, after Trump met with manufacturing CEOs that year. 'Vice President Vance has been crystal clear in his unwavering support for revitalizing the American economy by bringing back manufacturing jobs and sticking up for middle class workers and families since before he launched his U.S. Senate race, and that is a large part of why he was elected to public office in the first place,' a spokesperson for Vance told the KFILE. The resurfaced trade comments are the latest example of Vance having to justify his past, often strident, criticisms of Trump and his ideas. Vance, who once flatly declared himself a 'Never Trump guy' who 'never liked' the New York Republican, has reportedly previously called Trump a "fraud," a "moral disaster," a "cynical a**hole," a "bad man," and suggested he could be "America's Hitler." He also once reportedly said Trump had "thoroughly failed to deliver his economic populism.' Vance began to change his tone towards Trump after his best-selling memoir Hillbilly Elegy and association with investor Peter Thiel helped him become a rising star in Republican politics. 'I did say those critical things and I regret them, and I regret being wrong about the guy,' Vance said during his 2021 campaign for Senate. 'I think he was a good president, I think he made a lot of good decisions for people, and I think he took a lot of flak.' During the 2024 campaign, Vance said "dishonest fabrications" in the media previously misled him about Trump. "I've always been extremely open about the fact that I was wrong about Donald Trump," Vance said during a vice-presidential debate. "I was wrong first of all because I believed some of the media stories that turned out to be dishonest fabrications of his record.
