Trump Says He Had No Ties to Epstein, Vows Lawsuits Against Those Making Damaging Claims

[Financial News] United States President Donald John Trump strongly denied rumors that he had a personal relationship with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Edward Epstein and warned that he would file lawsuits against individuals who made statements harmful to him.
On the 2nd (local time), Trump wrote on the social media platform Truth Social, "Not only did I not have a personal relationship with Epstein, but according to information just released by the DOJ, Epstein and a dishonest, lying author named Michael Wolff conspired to damage me or my presidency."
Michael Wolff is a journalist-turned-author and a prominent anti-Trump figure, best known for his tell-all book "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House," which takes a critical view of Trump. He exchanged emails with Epstein while Epstein was alive, and in November last year, Democratic lawmakers on the United States House Committee on Oversight and Accountability released some of the emails between the two.
Those emails contained material suggesting that Trump might have been aware of some of Epstein's crimes. At the time, however, the White House countered that the emails had been selectively leaked "to create a fake narrative to smear President Trump."
In his post that day, Trump declared, "The vain hopes of the radical left end here," adding, "I will sue some of them." He went on, "Unlike the countless people spreading garbage talk, I have never been to Epstein's filthy, disgusting island," and claimed, "Almost every corrupt member of the Democratic Party and their donors went there."
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km@fnnews.com Kim Kyung-min Reporter