President Donald Trump said that he turned down an invitation to Jeffrey Epstein’s notorious island, characterizing the decision as “one of my very good moments.”
Trump was quizzed again Monday about the Epstein files while holding a press conference with U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer at Trump Turnberry golf resort in Scotland.
“I never had the privilege of going to his island, and I did turn it down, but a lot of people in Palm Beach were invited to his island,” Trump said.
“In one of my very good moments, I turned it down. I didn’t want to go to his island,” he added.
Little St James, the 75-acre private paradise in the U.S. Virgin Islands, featured in Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex trafficking trial.
Trump has previously said that he never went to Epstein’s island.
The president continues to be dogged the administration’s handling of the Epstein files as questions about Trump’s ties to the sex offender persist.
Epstein’s island has been described as “the perfect hideaway and haven for trafficking young women and underage girls for sexual servitude, child abuse and sexual assault.”
“Epstein and his associates could avoid detection of their illegal activity from Virgin Islands and federal law enforcement, and prevent these young women and underage girls from leaving freely and escaping the abuse,” said a criminal complaint from the attorney general of the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Celebrities, royals and other notable figures have been guests on the island, which locals dubbed “Pedophile Island.”
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