(LifeSiteNews) — Donald Trump has yet again floated the possibility that if he is re-elected he will release files the U.S. government has on Jeffrey Epstein, who died under mysterious circumstances in his jail cell in 2019 after being imprisoned for sex trafficking of minors.
Trump was on popular podcaster Lex Fridman’s show Tuesday in what has seemingly become a new campaign strategy to win over young male voters. He has already been interviewed by podcasters Adin Ross and Theo Von, purportedly following the recommendation of teenage son Barron.
Fridman told Trump that it is “very strange” that “the list of clients that went to (Epstein) Island has not been made public.” Trump agreed. “Yeah, it’s very interesting, isn’t it? … I’d certainly take a look at it.”
Trump further remarked that he’d be “inclined to do the Epstein” files and that he’d have “no problem” releasing them.
“A lot of big people went to that island. Fortunately, I was not one of them,” he clarified.
🚨WHOA: Trump plans to release the Jeffrey Epstein client list🚨
Now you know why he was almost assassinated
The most powerful evil people in America will do anything to stop the truth from coming out pic.twitter.com/VVYpuiZG82
— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) September 3, 2024
This is not the first time that Trump, who began palling around with Epstein himself in the late 1980s, has talked about the matter. He previously signaled support for releasing Epstein-related files during an appearance on Fox & Friends in June.
“Would you declassify the Epstein files?” host Rachel Campos-Duffy straightforwardly asked him.
“Yeah, I would,” he replied. “I guess I would … you don’t want to affect people’s lives if it’s phony stuff in there, because it’s a lot of phony stuff with that whole world. But I think I would.”
Trump says he will release the 9/11 and JFK files. So the Epstein files too?
Trump: “Yes…less so…you don’t want to affect people’s lives if there is phony stuff in there.”
— 🌵☀️ (@DelGroyp) September 4, 2024
Jeffrey Epstein was a Jewish socialite and close friend to the rich and powerful, many of whom routinely flew with him on his private jet and visited his private Little St. James Island in the Caribbean.
According to a 2016 Fox News report, court documents show that Bill Clinton flew on Epstein’s plane at least 26 times between 2002 and 2003, at times ditching the Secret Service. Clinton laughed off a question posed to him about the matter by a reporter in 2022.
Some of the notable names linked to Epstein were made public when a judge in New York unsealed documents that contained over 170 of his associates. Royal Family member Prince Andrew is perhaps the most notorious.
Epstein, who some say was a spy for the Israeli government, would apparently deceive young women with help from his partner, Ghislaine Maxwell, in order to cater to the sexual desires of international elites. Then, on his island, those people would be put into compromising situations that would later be used as blackmail in order to control them publicly. Maxwell, who is also Jewish, is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence at a low-security facility for aiding Epstein in the sex trafficking of female teenagers.