Bill Clinton denies visiting Jeffrey Epstein's notorious private island in the Caribbean, but admits he flew on the late pedophile's “bizarre” plane in 2002 and 2003. Ta.
According to excerpts first reported, the former president will address his controversial relationship with Mr. Epstein in his upcoming memoir, “Citizen,'' and will discuss his relationship with Mr. Epstein in connection with his work with the Clinton Global Initiative. He claimed to have used his private plane (nicknamed Lolita Express). us sun.
These reported trips took place before Epstein was convicted of child sex charges in Florida in 2005.
“The bottom line is that even though I was able to visit the foundation's operations, traveling on Mr. Epstein's plane was not worth questioning for years afterwards,'' Clinton said, according to the newspaper. I wrote.
The 42nd president reportedly claimed, “I always thought Epstein was a weirdo, but I was completely unaware of the crimes he was committing.''
“He hurt a lot of people, but I didn't know anything about it. By the time he was first arrested in 2005, I had lost contact with him,” the media outlet said. “I have never visited his island,” Clinton wrote in the book.
“I wish I had never met him,” he added.
In her book, Clinton claims that she met Epstein personally only twice, and both times were brief. The first time was at Mr. Epstein's townhouse on the Upper East Side, and then at the Clinton Global Initiative offices in Harlem.
In 2019, Clinton's press secretary confirmed that the former president rode the Lolita Express in 2002 and 2003, according to the US Sun.
A spokeswoman said Clinton traveled on Epstein's plane four times, once to Europe, once to Asia and twice to Africa.
After one of these trips, Clinton was photographed receiving slurs from Epstein's accuser Chaunte Davis, who worked as a flight attendant for Lolita Express.
Davis previously said he gave Clinton a massage during a layover on his way to Africa on a humanitarian trip.
Clinton has denied ever setting foot on Little St. James Island, where Epstein is accused of holding sex parties for minors, but Epstein's accuser Virginia Giuffre This contradicts his bombshell statement.
In 2020, it was revealed that while Giuffre did not allege that Clinton committed any wrongdoing on behalf of the former president, she did in fact claim that Clinton had been on the island.
In her memoir, Clinton also opened up about being “caught off guard” and being criticized during a 2018 NBC interview about her affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
Clinton was promoting her novel when host Craig Melvin, recently named host of NBC's “Today,” clashed with the former president over the Lewinsky scandal in light of the MeToo movement. The Guardian newspaper reported.
Melvin asked Clinton whether her feelings had changed in response to the new perspective brought on by social movements.
“I said, 'No, I felt terrible at the time,'” Clinton wrote in the Citizen, according to the newspaper.
“'Have you ever apologized to her?'” Clinton wrote, paraphrasing Melvin.
“I said I apologized to her and everyone else I had wronged. What happened next caught me off guard. “But at least we talked. According to the people who did, you didn't apologize to her.'' In a desperate effort to suppress my irritation, I replied that I had never spoken to her directly, but that I had said more than that in public. . [one] I'm disappointed,” Clinton said.
In her book, Clinton made a public apology in 1999 at the White House with religious leaders, adding that her family, Lewinsky and her family, and the United States were on a list of those who had been wronged at the time. He said he apologized on behalf of the nation.
“I was serious then, and I am serious today,” Clinton wrote in the Citizen.
“Citizen: My Life After the White House” will be released on November 19th.
