White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt would not confirm Tuesday whether a reported call by Donald Trump over Jeffrey Epstein happened.
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Leavitt said she did not know if the call had occurred, saying it is something that “may or may not have happened in 2006.”
According to a newly released document, the police chief in Palm Beach, Florida, told the FBI that he’d gotten a call from Trump in 2006 about Jeffrey Epstein and that Trump reportedly said, “Thank goodness you’re stopping him.”
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Even though she couldn’t confirm the call, Leavitt said its reported contents confirmed Trump’s repeated claims that he ended his relationship with Epstein decades ago, and that he himself had done nothing wrong.
“This call, if it did happen, corroborates exactly what President Trump has said from the beginning,” Leavitt said.
When asked by reporters, Leavitt didn’t rule out whether the president would grant Ghislaine Maxwell, the jailed associate of Jeffrey Epstein, clemency in exchange for her testimony.
“This is not something I’ve discussed with the president recently, because, frankly, it’s not a priority,” she told reporters during a White House briefing. “He’s focused on, many of the issues that the American people are dealing with and providing solutions to those issues.”
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Maxwell’s lawyer has said she would be willing to cooperate with a House probe if the president grants her clemency.
Leavitt also said that Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick “remains a very important member of President Trump’s team and the president fully supports the secretary.”
Leavitt was questioned after Lutnick testified to Congress on Tuesday that he had met with Epstein twice after Epstein’s 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution from a child. The statement contradicted Lutnick’s earlier claim that he had cut ties with the late financier after 2005.
Lutnick is the highest-profile U.S. official to face calls for his resignation from lawmakers in both political parties amid revelations of his ties to Epstein.
