Former President Bill Clinton has claimed in his new book that he regrets his relationship with the late Democrat megadonor Jeffrey Epstein.
In his new book “Citizen,” Clinton admits to flying with Epstein on the sex trafficker and convicted pedophile’s private jet, the “Lolita Express.”
Excerpts from the book, due to be published next week, were first reported by the US Sun.
Clinton admits in the book that he had flown on Esptein’s private jet in 2002 and 2003.
He argues that traveling aboard Epstein’s jet was not worth the years of speculation about his close relationship with the sex criminal.
Clinton wrote: “The bottom line is, even though it allowed me to visit the work of my foundation, traveling on Epstein’s plane was not worth the years of questioning afterward.
“I wish I had never met him.”
However, it’s unclear whether Clinton would have felt the same way had his flights with Epstein not been exposed.
Flight logs have long proved that Clinton frequently flew with Epstein, sometimes without his Secret Service detail, making the allegations impossible to deny.
There are also far more serious allegations related to Clinton’s friendship that the former president doesn’t address in the excerpts.
Clinton claims in his memoir that Epstein, who died in 2019, had offered the plane in support of Clinton’s foundation.
He claims that they spoke about economics and politics.
However, multiple Epstein victims have cited the private jet, which was fitted out with beds, as one of the key locations where much of the abuse occurred.
Disgraced Hollywood star Kevin Spacey, who is friends with Clinton and Epstein, also admitted that “young girls” joined them on board the jet.
Elsewhere in his book, Clinton also outright dismissed allegations that he had ever visited Little Saint James, a private island in the US Virgin Islands owned by Epstein.
The island was dubbed “Pedophile Island” by locals due to the number of underage girls who were seen being transported in and out of the secretive location regularly frequented by Epstein’s VIP friends.
Clinton also claims that the two only had brief meetings, one in his Harlem office and another in Epstein’s New York home.
However, White House visitor logs show that Epstein was a frequent visitor during Clinton’s presidency.
The logs show Epstein visited Clinton’s White House 17 times and took 8 “young” female guests with him on separate occasions.
The former president wrote: “I had always thought Epstein was odd but had no inkling of the crimes he was committing.
“He hurt a lot of people, but I knew nothing about it, and by the time he was first arrested in 2005, I had stopped contact with him.
“I’ve never visited his island.”
In January of this year, bombshell court documents on Epstein were unsealed that claimed that Clinton “likes them young.”
Details involving the testimony of Epstein victim Johanna Sjoberg.
Sjoberg was recruited at the age of 20 to work as a massage therapist.
Transcripts of Sjoberg’s testimony were released after a ruling was handed down.
Sjoberg told the lawyers in 2016 that Epstein told her “Clinton likes them young, referring to girls.”
Another victim, Sarah Ransome, stated in the testimonies published in the unsealed files that Epstein had recorded tapes of his powerful clients raping underage girls.
Ransome claims Epstein made the tapes so he could blackmail those in the recordings.
She also claims to have copies of secret recordings Epstein made of Clinton, Britain’s Prince Andrew, and billionaire Richard Branson.
According to Ransome, the faces of Clinton, Andrew, and Branson can be clearly seen in the tapes, which she says she and another victim have copies of.
Clinton has long faced questions about his associate with Epstein.
Epstein was mysteriously found dead in his jail cell while awaiting trial on charges of sex trafficking minors.
While he never faced trial for the charges, his accomplice and former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted of her role in Epstein’s sex trafficking ring and sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Despite being convicted of the charges, prosecutors have refused to reveal who Epstein and Maxwell were trafficking underage girls to.
Maxwell was also closely linked to the former president and was invited to Chelsea Clinton’s July 2010 wedding.
In an April 2016 deposition, Maxwell was asked about the travels with Epstein and Clinton.
“The allegation that Clinton had a meal on Jeffrey’s island is 100 percent false,” Maxwell said.
“I’m sure he had a meal on Jeffrey’s plane.”
She said she did not know how many times Clinton had flown on Epstein’s plane.
The flight logs show it was at least 26 times.
Maxwell was also asked about her relationship with lawyer Doug Band.
Band helped rebuild Clinton’s image in his post-presidency following the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
He worked in Clinton’s White House counsel’s office and served as deputy assistant to the president before becoming his chief advisor from 2002 to 2011.
With Band’s help, Clinton fashioned a new role for his post-presidency with his Clinton Global Initiative which donated millions to good causes.
Band was also with Clinton during some of his encounters with Epstein and was on the infamous 2002 trip to Africa aboard the pedophile’s private jet where the passengers included Kevin Spacey and Chris Tucker.
Photos from the trip show Clinton getting a massage from Chauntae Davies.
Davies was an Epstein victim who worked as a flight attendant on the pedophile’s jet.
Lawyers for Virginia Roberts Giuffre, a trafficking victim of Epstein, had previously argued that Clinton was a crucial witness in the case against him.
In a recent turn of events, Giuffre reached out to X boss Elon Musk and offered to provide him with Epstein’s elusive “Client List” which prosecutors have been scrambling to keep hidden from the public.
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