"REPORTER: Mr. President, were you aware that secretary of commerce visited Epstein's island? And do you continue to have DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: No, I wasn't aware of it. No, I didn't I actually haven't spoken to him about it. I wasn't, but from what I hear, he was there with his wife and children. And I guess in some cases, some people were. I wasn't. I was never there. Somebody will someday say that. I was never there."
"Okay, first of all, I love the way he starts his answer by saying I wasn't aware of it, which is not believable. But okay, maybe that's his approach. I wasn't aware of it, and then in the next breath makes it clear that he is in fact very, very aware of it. And the fact that he is so quick to assert that he has never been on the island himself, it's kind of feels like he's throwing his commerce secretary under the bus there. I mean, was that Donald Trump, the former best friend of Jeffrey Epstein, admitting out loud how bad i"
"Secretary Lutnick was grilled at a hearing Tuesday over new revelations about his association with Epstein, including his visit to the private island with his wife and children in 2012 years after Epstein's conviction on sex crimes."
Jen Psaki criticized President Donald Trump's response about Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick's association with Jeffrey Epstein, calling the answer contradictory and self-serving. Secretary Lutnick faced a hearing about revelations that he visited Epstein's private island in 2012 with his wife and children, years after Epstein's conviction. Trump said he was not aware of the visit and that he had not spoken to Lutnick, yet described hearing that Lutnick had gone with his family and repeatedly asserted that he had never been to the island. Psaki said Trump's denials read as an implicit slam against Lutnick.
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