Suicide of Jeffrey Epstein: Donald Trump drops a bomb by suggesting an assassination
In an interview for the HBO channel this Monday, August 3, Donald Trump questioned the suicide of Jeffrey Epstein in prison. And again wished "good luck" to his alleged accomplice.
Donald Trump made a second hazardous outing on Jeffrey Epstein. After wishing "good luck" to the former companion and alleged accomplice of billionaire Ghislaine Maxwell on July 22, a few weeks after his arrest, the US president questioned the suicide of his former friend in prison in August 2019. In an interview with the Axios show, broadcast on HBO this Monday, August 3, the husband of Melania Trump returned to these remarks, which echo a conspiracy theory circulating since the facts.
"Her friend or boyfriend was either killed or committed suicide in jail. She is now in jail. Yes, I wish her good luck [...] Let them prove someone is guilty," said he said according to the Washington Post. Jonathan Swan, who has been around social media for a sequence of the interview in which he corrects Donald Trump's lies about the coronavirus, asked him to clarify: "So you are saying that you hope that she won't die in prison? "
"People are trying to understand"
“Her boyfriend died in jail. And people are still trying to figure out how it happened. Was it suicide? Was he killed? I wish him good luck, yes. I wish him nothing. wrong, "he persisted.
After the discovery of Jeffrey Epstein's body on August 10, 2019, the Chief Medical Examiner of New York concluded that he hanged himself. The attorney general inspected CCTV footage from the night of his death, and found that no one had passed in his area. Two guards who were supposed to visit him every 30 minutes failed to do so. A doctor hired by the billionaire's brother - to whom Bill Clinton and Prince Andrew are linked - has meanwhile considered it an assassination.