Epstein's emails contradict Trump: attendance confirmed at Thanksgiving 2017 at Mar-a-Lago

Justice Minister Pam Bondi has instructed a Manhattan prosecutor to investigate former President Bill Clinton and others named in Jeffrey Epstein's emails. "Jay Clayton is one of the most capable and trustworthy prosecutors in this country, and I have asked him to take the lead," Bondi said on X responding to Donald Trump's post in which the president asked the Justice Department to investigate "Jeffrey Epstein's involvement and relationship with Bill Clinton, Larry Summers, Reid Hoffman, J.P. Morgan Chase and many other individuals and institutions, to determine what was happening to them and him."

Larry Summers was Secretary of the Treasury from 1999 to 2001, under the Clinton administration, and Director of the National Economic Council from 2009 to 2010, under Obama. From 2011 to 2006, he was president of Harvard University. Reid Hoffman is an Internet entrepreneur, venture capitalist, podcaster and book author. Both have long cultivated relationships with Epstein.

Meanwhile, however, more details emerge from the revelation of the emails contradicting the US president. Jeffrey Epstein claimed to have spent Thanksgiving Day 2017 with Donald Trump, contradicting claims by the US president himself who had assured that he had severed relations with the financier around 2004. In an email exchange made public by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee Faith Kates, a Manhattan-based model management guru, asked Epstein on Thanksgiving morning, 23 November 2017, where he was spending the holiday. Epstein replied "eva", a likely reference to his ex-girlfriend Eva Andersson-Dubin, who would later testify at his sex trafficking trial in late 2021. Kates then mentioned Andersson-Dubin's husband Glenn Dubin by name in the exchange and asked Epstein: "Who else is over there?" Epstein replied by naming Trump, hedge fund founder David Fiszel and someone he calls Hanson. According to White House records, Trump spent Thanksgiving 2017, his first as president, at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach. The White House did not disclose the guest list. This was reported by the US media.

Another front involving the US president. Pete Skandalakis, a long-time prosecutor, has announced that he will take on the Georgia election interference case against US President Donald Trump and others after Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis was removed from the case and no one else wanted to take over. The Georgia Board of Prosecutors, a nonpartisan body, was tasked with finding someone to lead the case after Willis was removed for 'apparent impropriety' due to a romantic relationship with the special prosecutor she had chosen to lead the case. The organisation's executive director, Pete Skandalakis, said he would personally take on the case. "A number of prosecutors were contacted and, although all of them were respectful and professional, each of them declined the assignment," Skandalakis noted in an e-mailed note.