More evidence has surfaced that Donald Trump was not involved in the crimes committed by Jeffrey Epstein. And more evidence that prosecutors were anxious to get anything they could on Trump.
Jeffrey Epstein claimed prosecutors offered his freedom if he agreed to implicate Donald Trump: cellmate
"Jeffrey Epstein claimed New York federal prosecutors told him he could walk free if he agreed to
implicate Donald Trump, according to his ex-cellmate.
After his arrest on child sex-trafficking charges in July 2019, Epstein was transferred to the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan ā where he shared a cell with ex-cop Nicholas Tartaglione, who was awaiting trial before being convicted on a
quadruple-murder charge.
Tartaglione, 57, now claims that Epstein, who died a month after being arrested, told him prosecutors had offered to cut a deal if heād snitch on President Trump, who was then in his first term.
āProsecutors ⦠told Epstein that if he said President Trump was involved with Espteinās crimes he would walk free. in a petition to be pardoned,ā Tartaglione claims in a pardon application filed in July and obtained by The Post.
āEpstein told me that [lead prosecutor] Maurene Comey said that he didnāt have to prove anything, as long as President Trumpās people could not disprove it. According to Maurene Comey, the FBI were āher people, not his [President Trumpās],ā ā the filing states.
The papers donāt specify what crimes Trump would have been implicated in. At the time of his death, Epstein was charged with sex trafficking and conspiracy, but was also suspected in a laundry list of other crimes ā from financial misdealing to money laundering and blackmail.
Comey, who acted as lead prosecutor in Tartaglioneās case, was
fired by the Justice Department in July. Attempts to reach her for comment were unsuccessful, while the Department of Justice did not respond to a request for comment.
Tartaglione added in his petition that Epstein told him āPresident Trump was not involved in Epsteinās crimes.ā
Jeffrey Epstein claimed prosecutors offered his freedom if he agreed to implicate Donald Trump: cellmate