If you wanted to deflect from your long, long ‘best pals’ friendship with Epstein isn’t this exactly what you would do? He has also since claimed that he knew nothing about what Epstein and Maxwell were doing, but this clearly shows that he was lying – he DID know and yet did not tell the police until the police investigation was underway. 

Other questions: If he knew that Maxwell was ‘evil’ why (a) wasn’t he the one to instigate the Epstein police inquiry, and (b) why did he have Maxwell moved to a cushy prison by his personal lawyer Todd Blanche on the understanding that she would keep her mouth shut? 

This is being spun as ‘exonerating’ Trump when it clearly does the opposite.