(Washington) President Donald Trump will not recommend the appointment of a special prosecutor in the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, a spokesperson for the White House, thus rejecting calls for new measures in this investigation which shaken the Ministry of Justice, on Thursday and aroused the anger of many Republicans who expected a mountain of documents on this case.
The rejection of the appointment of a special prosecutor is part of an initiative of the White House aimed at turning the page on the persistent indignation of certain members of the entourage of Donald Trump in the face of the refusal, of the Ministry of Justice to disclose additional documents resulting from the Epstein investigation, a rich and well-connected man who was found dead in prison in 2019 when he was waiting for his trial for sexual traffic.
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Jeffrey Epstein in 2021
Officials also repeated that Epstein did not hold a “list of customers”, such as propagated by certain conspiracy theories that circulate on social networks. They assured that the evidence was clear: he committed suicide, even if some claim the opposite.
Donald Trump attempted to calm the criticisms of his own supporters on Wednesday concerning the management by his administration of the files related to Epstein. He described them as “shabby” and suggested that the investigation was “hoax”. The leaders of the FBI and the Department of Justice-which he has selected himself-had for a long time fed the hopes that important information would be revealed.
The news agency Just The News published extracts from an interview with Donald Trump on Wednesday, in which he said he was open to the idea that a special prosecutor examines “any credible element” linked to Epstein, as well as other long -standing grievances that he and his supporters have been raising for a long time.
But the spokesperson for the White House, Karoline Leavitt, seemed to close the door Thursday at the appointment of a special prosecutor for the Epstein investigation, saying that “the idea had been launched by a media to the president”.
“The president would not recommend the appointment of a special prosecutor in the Epstein case,” she confirmed. The regulation of the Ministry of Justice authorizes the Attorney General to appoint and supervise an external special prosecutor responsible for investigating allegations of criminal offenses when prosecutors may be confronted with a potential or perceived conflict of interest.
In recent years, the ministry has appointed a series of special prosecutors – sometimes, but not always, chosen outside the agency – to conduct investigations on politically sensitive issues, especially on the conduct of presidents Joe Biden and Trump.
Last year, Mr. Trump’s personal lawyers challenged with fiercely, and successfully, the appointment of Jack Smith, the special prosecutor who was to investigate his attempts to cancel the presidential election of 2020 and the conservation of classified documents in his residence in Mar-A-Lago, Florida.
