Jeffrey Epstein’s brother Mark has said that Donald Trump “was in the office all the time back then.”
The US president and his associates have continued to deny claims that he and the convicted child sex offender Epstein were close. In July, Steven Cheung, the White House communications director, said, “The president was never in his (Jeffery epstein’s) office.”
White House representatives have continued to uphold that statement. On Thursday, they told the Daily Beast, “Steven’s statement still stands.”
A recent New York Times investigation into the relationship between Trump and Epstein highlighted the claims of Maira Farmer, who had alleged that she was sexually assaulted by the financier and his co-cnspirator Ghilaines maxwell.
Maria said that Epstein once asked her to meet him at his office in Vilard houses, where Trump was waiting.
Trump had allegedly ogled at her before Epstein said, “She’s not for you.”
The story was backed by Mark Epstein, who said that Trump visited Jeffrey frequently.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said that the story was “fake news.”
“The truth will remain the same no matter how many times The New York Times tries to change it. President Trump did nothing wrong, and he kicked Jeffrey Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago for being a creep,” she said.
One former assistant to Epstein recalled to the NYT that she remembered Trump as a household name, as Epstein often competed with Trump over who got the most women. She recalled one time the two joked about a woman’s pubic hair.
Daily handwritten notes, which were kept by the assistant, also suggested that Trump was a regular visitor to Epstein.
The US Department of Justice has a deadline of Friday to release the Jeffrey Epstein files.
On Thursday, Democrats in Congress released 68 photographs they said “provide insight into Epstein's network and his extremely disturbing activities".
Some of the photographs include images of a girl with quotes from the novel Lolita written on several parts of her body.
Some of the photographs also feature Steve Bannon, Bill Gates, Woody Allen, and former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak.
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The release of the photographs is expected to increase the pressure on the Trump administration to release the full files.
