An email that was included in the U.S. Department of Justice release of the Jeffrey Epstein files is photographed. Jon Elswick via Associated Press
WASHINGTON ― An FBI report detailing a phone call by Donald Trump to the Palm Beach Police chief in 2006 implicating his child sex trafficking friends Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell has muddled the president’s varying explanations of when and why he broke off contact with them.
On Tuesday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt falsely claimed that the document, released by the Justice Department in response to a new law requiring disclosure of the federal government’s investigations of the now-dead financier, vindicates Trump.
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