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- Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre said she didn't think Donald Trump was involved.
- "I don't think Donald Trump participated in anything," Giuffre said in a 2016 deposition.
- The deposition was unsealed on Tuesday as part of a wider document dump in the Epstein case.
Virginia Roberts Giuffre, one of the most public accusers of disgraced pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein, said she didn't think former President Donald Trump was involved with Epstein's sexual abuse of minors.
According to unsealed documents released on Tuesday, Giuffre was asked in a 2016 deposition if she believed Trump was a witness to the alleged sexual abuse of minors in Epstein's home.
"I don't think Donald Trump participated in anything," Giuffre said, according to the deposition. "That would have to be another assumption. I never saw or witnessed Donald Trump participate in those acts, but was he in the house of Jeffrey Epstein. I've heard he has been, but I haven't seen him myself so I don't know."
The interviewer then asked Giuffre if she'd seen Heidi Klum with Jeffrey Epstein, and Giuffre answered that she had seen them together at parties. But, she added that she didn't know if Klum was ever at Epstein's house, so she couldn't say if Klum had ever witnessed sexual abuse, according to the deposition.
Giuffre was also asked if former President Bill Clinton was a witness to Epstein's sexual abuse of minors.
"Yes, he would be a witness because he knew what my purpose there was for Jeffrey and he visited Jeffrey's island," Giuffre said, according to the transcript. "There's pictures of nude girls all around the house at all of his houses and it's something that Jeffrey Epstein wasn't shy about admitting to people."
Elsewhere in the deposition, Giuffre alleged she met Clinton twice on Epstein's island, sometime before September 2002. She said in the deposition both trips included dinner and that she was never sexually involved with Clinton.
"I mean, there was a dinner, lots of laughing, lots of joking, it was just a dinner and then I didn't have to do anything with Bill Clinton, he was never sexually involved with me. I've never witnessed him sexually involved with anybody else," she said.
Clinton spokesperson Angel Ureña previously shared a statement saying Clinton didn't know about the "terrible crimes" Epstein committed.
"In 2002 and 2003, President Clinton took a total of four trips on Jeffrey Epstein's airplane," Ureña said in the statement. "It's been nearly 20 years since President Clinton last had contact with Epstein."
Meanwhile, Epstein's now-convicted associate Ghislaine Maxwell "categorically" denied that Clinton had ever been to Epstein's island in her own deposition.
"That is an absolute fabrication and an absolute flat out lie," she said.
Giuffre had been quoted in the Daily Mail as saying Clinton once took a helicopter with Maxwell, but an unsealed deposition this week revealed that she denied ever making those claims.
Previously, Clinton did not object to his name being unsealed in the documents, according to US District Judge Loretta Preska, who ordered the unsealing of the documents in December.
The unredacted deposition transcript was released as part of the recent Epstein document dump, in which thousands of pages of documents related to the civil lawsuit between Giuffre and Maxwell have been released.