'Deeply embarrassing' Trump letter 'raises all sort of questions': Morning Joe hosts
A handwritten note purportedly written by Jeffrey Epstein to a convicted pedophile in which he claims Donald Trump “shares our love of young, nubile girls” left a MS NOW panel almost speechless on Tuesday morning.
Towards the end of the Morning Joe” episode that had been light-hearted all morning as the holiday weekend looms, the panel became deadly serious as co-host Jonathan Lemire read from the letter, included in the freshly released Epstein files.
As Lemire told his colleagues, the letter was supposedly mailed three days after Epstein died in his prison cell where he was being held on sex trafficking charges.
Written to Larry Nassar, sentenced to 60 years in prison for abusing hundreds of children and young women during the time when he was the team doctor for the United States women's national gymnastics team, Epstein lamented that they were in jail while Trump walked free.
Epstein wrote, “As you know by now, I have taken the ‘short route’ home. Good luck! We shared one thing… our love & caring for young ladies at the hope they'd reach their full potential,” before adding, “Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to ‘grab s——h,’ whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system. Life is unfair. Yours, J. Epstein”
Lemire cautioned viewers, “Let's just pause on this one for a second. Yeah, first of all, there's that odd mention of taking a short route home, coming just days before Epstein's death, so we can speculate as to what that could be, but also flat out says that, you know, talking about President Trump, who was in office at the time, also appreciating the virtues of young girls.”
“Yeah, and this is one of those great examples we've been asking, why wouldn't the president want this information out if he had done nothing illegal, if there was nothing proven in these documents? Here's one great example of, you know, who knows how many,” co-host Joe Scarborough replied.
“And so obviously, this is the last thing that any politician would want out there where you have two, two convicted sex offenders talking about how the president loves young women just as much as them, but they're in jail and he's not.”
“Even if he didn't do anything that appeared to be illegal in those documents, why would he do everything he could to suppress the documents from the American people, actually seeing what's in the Epstein files?” he asked.
“At minimum, deeply embarrassing and raises all sorts of questions,” Lemire conceded.
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