Former US President Bill Clinton has considerably come clear about his controversial ties to the late disgraced billionaire Jeffrey Epstein. While admitting to some hyperlinks, the 78-year-old political chief has denied different heavy allegations in a seemingly tell-all memoir “Citizen: My Life After the White House.” The e-book is scheduled to return out subsequent week.
According to among the memoir excerpts pre-released by The US Sun on Friday, Clinton needs he’d by no means met the convicted pedophile. Nonetheless, since he did, he admits to having flown on Epstein’s personal jet, the Lolita Express, in 2002 and 2003. However, he denies ever having visited Little Saint James, the controversial offender’s personal island within the US Virgin Islands, regardless of a streak of speculations alleging his attendance on the notorious location at one level.
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Bill Clinton regrets assembly Jeffrey Epstein
The forthcoming e-book means that Epstein and Clinton bonded over their economics and politics talks. The billionaire reportedly supplied the previous president help by lending him his jet. In hindsight, Clinton writes in his memoir: “The backside line is, despite the fact that it allowed me to go to the work of my basis, travelling on Epstein’s airplane was not definitely worth the years of questioning afterward. I want I had by no means met him.”
Clinton particulars the place he truly met Epstein. He says they solely had two “transient” conferences—one in his personal Harlem workplace and the opposite within the billionaire’s New York residence.
Clinton even describes the opposite man as “odd,” doubling down on how he nonetheless “had no inkling of the crimes he was committing.”
Reiterating he “by no means visited his island,” the ex-POTUS insists in his upcoming memoir that he knew nothing about how Epstein was hurting folks. “…by the point he was first arrested in 2005, I had stopped contract with him,” he provides.
Earlier this 12 months, a May 2016 deposition was unsealed. In these authorized paperwork, Epstein accus Virginia Roberts Giuffre set forth that his former companion Ghislaine Maxwell (a fellow convicted intercourse offender) might have fabricated the claims about serving to Clinton fly to the late pedophile’s island on a helicopter. Although she firmly stated “no” to ever being on the helicopter with Clinton and Maxwell, she didn’t deny crossing paths with the ex-president on the notoriously famed island.
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Bill Clinton’s years-old assertion echoes his memoir’s revelations
Clinton’s feedback in his e-book “Citizen” mirror the assertion launched in 2019, addressing his journeys aboard Epstein’s personal airplane as he grew to become entangled within the scandal tied to the billionaire who’s believed to have killed himself in his jail cell that very same 12 months.
“In 2002 and 2003, President Clinton took a complete of 4 journeys on Jeffrey Epstein’s airplane: one to Europe, one to Asia, and two to Africa, which included stops in reference to the work of the Clinton Foundation,” a spokesman pushed the assertion 5 years in the past. The official launch echoed Clinton’s revelations about the one two conferences he had with Epstein. “He’s not spoken to Epstein in properly over a decade and has by no means been to Little St James Island, Epstein’s ranch in New Mexico, or his residence in Florida,” the be aware added.
Hollywood stars Kevin Spacey and Chris Tucker reportedly accompanied Clinton and Epstein on one in all these aforementioned journeys to Africa.