Comments made by White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt as she defended Donald Trump and his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein on Wednesday were singled out by a legal analyst on Thursday morning.
On the day that thousands of emails belonging to the notorious pedophile were released by lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, Donald Trump’s spokesperson was dismissive with reporters during her press conference, claiming there was nothing concerning to the White House that was revealed.
However, as MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin pointed out on “Morning Joe,“ Leavitt has raised new doubts with her explanation on Trump’s split with Epstein.
Reporting on a series of emails, Rubin told the hosts, “In April of 2016, when both before and after he [Epstein] is telling close people in his life that Trump is a bad guy, I'm going to read to you from another email that he sent to Larry Summers in February of 2017. Larry Summers, the former Treasury Secretary and president of Harvard, he says, ‘I have met some very bad people, none as bad as Trump, not one decent cell in his body. So, yes, dangerous.’"
“And he has conversations of that nature over the years, repeatedly with a series of journalists, two in particular, Michael Wolff and also Landon Thomas of the New York Times, who wrote that infamous 2002 profile of Donald Trump, I’m sorry of Jeffrey Epstein, in which Trump is quoted as saying that Epstein likes beautiful women perhaps as much as I do many of them on the younger side.”
“Landon Thomas goes to Jeffrey Epstein as Trump becomes a serious presidential candidate and says, ‘Everybody is asking me about this because I wrote that. What should I tell them?” she elaborated. “And Epstein comes up with anecdote after anecdote to share with Thomas and says, you should tell them that Donald Trump, when he would come over to my house, once, almost walked into a glass door because he was so fixated on looking at all the young girls in the pool.”
“So there is definitely not in these documents to date any evidence of criminal wrongdoing by Donald Trump,” she admitted before cautioning, “But is there plenty of circumstantial evidence that Donald Trump may have known what Jeffrey Epstein was up to? Absolutely. And Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, yesterday, sort of telling on herself when she said that was the reason that Trump evicted Jeffrey Epstein from Mar-a-Lago.”