Requested in regards to the file launch aboard Air Power One on Saturday, Donald Trump, 79, mentioned he “was informed by some crucial those that not solely does it absolve me.”
He added: “It is the other of what folks had been hoping, you realize, the novel left.”
The Republican added he was contemplating authorized motion towards creator Michael Wolff and the Epstein property, citing earlier emails through which Wolff appeared to advise Epstein on easy methods to communicate publicly about Trump.
“Wolff, who’s a third-rate author, was conspiring with Jeffrey Epstein to harm me politically or in any other case and that got here via loud and clear,” Trump mentioned.
“So we’ll in all probability sue Wolff on that… perhaps the Epstein property, I suppose.”
On Sunday, Trump’s former lawyer, Todd Blanche, now the deputy lawyer common, mentioned the Justice Division believed the Epstein information didn’t justify additional prosecutions.
“We then launched over three and a half million items of paper, and your complete world can take a look at and see if we acquired it mistaken,” Blanche mentioned, including whereas the fabric included “plenty of horrible pictures,” it didn’t essentially meet the brink for legal costs.