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NBC News’ Hallie Jackson Could Not Get Single Epstein Victim To Say Trump Had Done Anything ‘Inappropriate’

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The victims of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation told NBC News’ Hallie Jackson Wednesday that they had no knowledge of President Donald Trump doing anything inappropriate in relation to the deceased pedophile’s operation.

Speculations surrounding Trump’s relationship with Epstein have drawn attention on Capitol Hill and the press following the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) conclusion that Epstein had not possessed a client list and its decision to not publicly release all of the documents relating to the sex offender’s criminal case. The victims told Jackson on “NBC News Now” that they had not heard or seen Trump do “anything inappropriate as it related to [Epstein].”

“I do have to ask, and I think it’s just something we’re compelled to, at this moment, with the attention on President Trump, with these questions around a pardon. Did anybody see or hear of the president himself doing anything inappropriate as it related to Jeffrey Epstein?” Jackson asked.

“No,” one or two victims could be heard saying.

None of those interviewed disputed that Trump had not done anything inappropriate.

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Trump, who has acknowledged his previous friendship with Epstein, told reporters on July 29 that he cut off all contact with Epstein after he “stole” female workers from the spa at Mar-a-Lago. He confirmed that some of those hired by Epstein were young women, including then-17-year-old Virginia Giuffre, who committed suicide in April at the age of 41.

Trump further noted that any incriminating evidence against him in the Epstein files would have been released by former President Joe Biden’s administration ahead of the 2024 election.

Epstein’s former partner, Ghislaine Maxwell, testified to U.S. deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche that she never saw any inappropriate behavior from Trump and that he had been a perfect gentleman. Maxwell is serving a 20-year prison sentence for trafficking underage girls and training them to perform sex acts on Epstein.

“I actually never saw the President in any type of massage setting,” Maxwell said. “I never witnessed the President in any inappropriate setting in any way. The President was never inappropriate with anybody. In the times that I was with him, he was a gentleman in all respects.”

The Wall Street Journal alleged in July that Trump sent Epstein a birthday card for his 50th birthday in 2003 that included a drawing of a naked stick figure woman. Trump vehemently denied these claims and filed a lawsuit against the WSJ, Rupert Murdoch and the reporters who wrote the story.

The Oversight Committee released over 33,000 pages of documents related to Epstein on Tuesday that they obtained from the DOJ.