Trump news: President speaks out about Jeffrey Epstein relationship, after lashing out at 'very stupid' UK ambassador
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Your support makes all the difference.Donald Trump’s Russian-born business associate Felix Sater testified before the House Intelligence Committee on Tuesday, as the president resumed his row with UK ambassador to the US Sir Kim Darroch, and lashed out at the “mess” Theresa May has made of Brexit.
In one of his latest angry Twitter diatribe, the president called Sir Kim “wacky”, “a very stupid guy” and “a pompous fool” before laying into Ms May for going “her own foolish way” and ignoring his advice on Britain’s departure from the EU. “A disaster!” he concluded.
A meeting between his Commerce secretary, Wilbur Ross, and Liam Fox was later cancelled. It was not immediately clear why, but officials told The Independent that the Brexit-related deal was being rescheduled.
Mr Trump talked up his environmental credentials at the White House on Monday night, during which he was brutally fact-checked by Fox News (and others), before sitting down to dinner with New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, who was caught up in a prostitution scandal earlier this year, just days after his former friend Jeffrey Epstein was arrested and accused of sex crimes involving underage girls.
The US president later said that he and Mr Epstein had a falling out roughly 15 years ago. Mr Epstein is known for having a close relationship with Bill Clinton as well, and managed to get a favourable plea deal on previous charges in Florida, when he was being accused by Alexander Acosta. Mr Acosta is now the secretary of Labour.
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2020 hopeful Kamala Harris has joined the growing call among politicians and activists for Labour Secretary Alex Acosta to resign in the wake of renewed controversy over his sentencing agreement with Jeffrey Epstein prior to the latest charges facing the billionaire financier -
Donald Trump's labour secretary has responded to news developments about new charges surrounding Jeffrey Epstein, while declining to mention a previous sentencing agreement he made with the billionaire financier in Florida which allowed Mr Epstein to only serve 13 months in jail and leave the facilities six days a week to work -
Donald Trump has spoken to reporters inside the Oval Office, defending his labour secretary and saying numerous people were involved in Jeffrey Epstein’s sentencing deal that allowed him to leave jail for work.
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