Bill Clinton is noticed simply hours earlier than he was named in Epstein record
- Bill Clinton has been pictured in Mexico hours earlier than he was named within the bombshell courtroom paperwork detailing the connections of Jeffrey Epstein
- Clinton was named 73 instances within the paperwork that linked him with the pedophile financier who he was steadily pictured with
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Former President Bill Clinton was noticed strolling by the streets of a small Mexican city earlier than being named within the Epstein record.
Clinton was captured on the major sq. of San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, alongside vacationers.
Mayor Mauricio Trejo Pureco shared an image on social media of Clinton in entrance of the parish of San Miguel Arcángel.
In a tweet, Pureco welcomed him, saying: ‘Even Bill Clinton walks calmly and safely by the streets of San Miguel de Allende, having fun with its distinctive magnificence and kindness of the individuals of San Miguel de Allende.
‘Welcome Mr. President! That’s why we’re [the] finest small metropolis of the world!!!’
This image of Clinton comes after he was named 73 instances within the paperwork linking him with pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
Clinton was pictured alongside his spouse Hillary, 76, in addition to the previous president of Chile, Sebastián Piñera, second from the correct, and Mexico, Enrique Pena Nieto (third left). The image is dated December 29 in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
Clinton was captured on the major sq. of San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, alongside vacationers
Bill Clinton is pictured greeting Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein within the White House in 1993
Clinton was additionally pictured alongside his spouse Hillary, 76, in addition to the previous president of Chile, Sebastián Piñera, and of Mexico, Enrique Pena-Nieto.
The image was dated December 29 in Punta Cana, within the Dominican Republic.
The picture of the couple alongside Piñera was shared by Frank Elías Rainieri, a hotelier within the Dominican Republic.
Hillary Clinton was not recognized to spend time with Jeffrey Epstein, however her husband was a good friend from not less than 1993.
The pedophile financier made not less than 17 visits to the White House, presidential logs present, and Bill Clinton additionally flew on Epstein’s personal jet – making journeys to Europe, Asia and Africa in 2002 and 2003.
Bill Clinton’s spokesman Angel Urena stated in July 2019, when Jeffrey Epstein was arrested, that he ‘is aware of nothing in regards to the horrible crimes’ that Epstein was accused of, and that Clinton had not spoken to Epstein ‘in additional than a decade.’
Despite this, there are mentions within the paperwork of his previous friendship with Epstein, however Clinton has not been accused of any wrongdoing.
Johanna Sjoberg informed legal professionals that Epstein claimed Clinton had ‘favored them younger’.
Deposition paperwork present Sjoberg was requested if she knew the previous US president was a good friend of Epstein.
Sjoberg stated: ‘I knew he had dealings with Bill Clinton.
‘I didn’t know they have been associates till I learn the Vanity Fair article about them going to Africa collectively.’
Bill Clinton is pictured with Jeffrey Epstein in an undated {photograph}
Clinton is seen with Jeffrey Epstein contained in the White House in 1993, at an occasion for donors to the White House Historical Association. Epstein attended the occasion after donating $10,000 to the fund. Ghislaine Maxwell is pictured beside Epstein
Asked if Epstein had ever talked in regards to the former president, Sjoberg stated: ‘He stated one time that Clinton likes them younger, referring to women.’
Other mentions included authorized arguments over whether or not Virginia Giuffre ought to be allowed extra time to depose potential witnesses, together with Clinton.
Giuffre by no means alleged he was concerned in unlawful conduct, however her attorneys stated the previous president was a ‘key one who can present details about his shut relationship’ with Ghislaine Maxwell and Epstein.
Maxwell’s attorneys countered that Clinton testimony was not related.
Roberts – utilizing her married title, Virginia Giuffre – argues that Clinton was near each Maxwell and Epstein, who died in jail awaiting trial in August 2019.
‘In a 2011 interview, Ms. Giuffre talked about former President Bill Clinton’s shut private relationship with Defendant and Jeffrey Epstein,’ the courtroom doc states.
‘While Ms. Giuffre made no allegations of unlawful actions by Bill Clinton, Ms. Maxwell in her deposition raised Ms. Giuffre’s feedback about President Clinton as one of many ‘apparent lies’ to which she was referring in her public assertion that fashioned the idea of this swimsuit.
Bill Clinton sits again in a chair as he receives a neck therapeutic massage from an alleged sufferer of Jeffrey Epstein, Chauntae Davies
Davies, who has claimed she was raped by Epstein after being recruited by Maxwell, stated Clinton was a ‘full gentleman’ on the journey as she described how the encounter occurred
‘Apart from the Defendant and Mr. Epstein, former President Clinton is a key one who can present details about his shut relationship with Defendant and Mr. Epstein and disapprove Ms. Maxwell’s claims.’
Another girl who claimed she was sexually abused by Epstein, Johanna Sjoberg, stated in her deposition that Epstein informed her ‘Clinton likes them younger, referring to women.’
It is unclear how Clinton and Epstein met, however Roberts was not the one one to assert the pair have been shut.
Clinton’s workplace beforehand issued a press release with reference to his travels on the airplane and denied figuring out something in regards to the financier’s crimes.
His crew stated he had solely taken 4 journeys with him in 2002 and 2003 – though flight logs confirmed he had taken a complete of not less than 26 particular person flights in the middle of these years.
‘President Clinton is aware of nothing in regards to the horrible crimes Jeffrey Epstein pleaded responsible to in Florida some years in the past, or these with which he has beforehand been charged in New York,’ a press release learn.
‘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 Clinton Foundation.
Jeffrey Epstein pictured in 2019, months earlier than he died in jail. The long-awaited record of his associates and associates named in a 2015 lawsuit was partially launched on Thursday
Donald and Melania Trump are seen with Epstein and Maxwell at Mar-a-Lago in February 2000
‘Staff, supporters of the Foundation, and his Secret Service element traveled on each leg or each journey.’
On Wednesday, hours earlier than the courtroom paperwork have been unsealed, Jeffrey Epstein’s brother Mark, a New York-based property developer, stated his sibling claimed to have details about Donald Trump and Bill Clinton which was so explosive it could derail the 2016 presidential election.
Mark Epstein, youthful than Jeffrey by 18 months, stated his brother by no means offered particulars.
Mark, 69, informed The New York Post: ‘Here’s a direct quote: ‘If I stated what I find out about each candidates, they’d need to cancel the election.’ That’s what Jeffrey informed me in 2016.’
Mark Epstein stated that flying with Bill Clinton was a key mistake of his brother’s, as a result of it all of the sudden shone a highlight on his actions.
‘Jeff first took Clinton and I believe it was Chris Tucker and another individuals to Africa — which was a mistake my brother made by doing that, as a result of previous to that he was below the radar; no person was him.
‘But when he flew Clinton there, it was like, ‘Who’s this man flying Clinton?”
Bill Clinton’s spokesman Angel Urena stated in July 2019, when Jeffrey Epstein was arrested, that he ‘is aware of nothing in regards to the horrible crimes’ that Epstein was accused of, and that Clinton had not spoken to Epstein ‘in additional than a decade.’
There isn’t any proof that Clinton ever visited Epstein’s Caribbean island, Little St. James.
The unsealing of the paperwork on Wednesday made uncomfortable studying for an array of well-known faces, past Bill Clinton and Donald Trump.
Neither Clinton nor Trump are accused of getting intercourse with any of Epstein’s victims, however Roberts claims that she was compelled to have intercourse with Prince Andrew.
He denies these allegations and all claims of impropriety. Sjoberg additionally accused the Prince of groping her breast.
Andrew has all the time strongly denied their claims. In March 2022 he paid a settlement to Roberts, formally ending her civil case towards him, however with none act of contrition.
Prince Andrew, Virginia Roberts, aged 17, now often called Virginia Giuffre, and Ghislaine Maxwell at Ghislaine Maxwell’s townhouse in London. The Duke of York denies ever assembly Ms Giuffre
At the time, he stated he ‘by no means meant to malign Ms Giuffre’s character’ and he acknowledged she had ‘suffered each as a longtime sufferer of abuse and because of unfair public assaults’.
He additionally pledged to ‘exhibit his remorse for his affiliation’ with Epstein. Roberts additionally stated she had intercourse with billionaire Hyatt resort inheritor Tom Pritzker.
Pritzker is Hyatt Hotels’ govt chairman and the cousin of Illinois’ Democrat Governor JB Pritzker. He is chairman and CEO of the Pritzker Organization.
Epstein’s Palm Beach mansion was one among a number of websites the place he sexually abused younger women.
The waterfront property, simply over a mile from Donald Trump ‘s Mar-a-Lago, went available on the market in 2020 for $21.9 million however is believed to have been bought for $18 million.
Todd Michael Glaser, a Florida-based developer, now intends to demolish the prevailing home and construct a brand new one instead.
Others named within the paperwork are scientists and lecturers who Epstein courted – amongst them Professor Stephen Hawking, the British physicist.
Hawking visited Epstein’s island in 2006 for a gathering with different outstanding scientists.
After the go to, Epstein, in line with the courtroom paperwork, despatched an e mail to Maxwell urging her to garbage feedback that the disabled physicist participated in a pedophile orgy throughout his keep.
