Q: I’ll just ask you straight up, have you ever met, been in contact with or been on a plane, either operated by Jeffrey Epstein or occupied by Jeffrey Epstein?
Pritzker: No, no, no, no. Let me be clear. First of all, President Clinton clearly was mistaken, and he corrected the mistake to his credit. And no, I have never, had never met Jeffrey Epstein. I was never on Jeffrey Epstein’s plane. I was never on any plane with Jeffrey Epstein or with Ghislaine Maxwell. Never met her. But you know who did? You know who palled around with both of them? Donald Trump did. Donald Trump is known to have spent a lot of time with both of them, and yet he still hasn’t owned up to it, and still hasn’t been held accountable for that and that we should do.
Q: Can you talk about what aircraft was used on those trips in 2008?
Pritzker: I don’t know. I mean, I in 2000 Oh, sorry, in 2008 there was actually a donated aircraft as I recall from Google. There were about 25 people on the aircraft. And they were all political types and people involved with the foundation, the Clinton Foundation, including Chelsea Clinton and other people.
Q: What about the 2013 trip?
Pritzker: I don’t know whose aircraft that was, but that was not, you know, we triple checked that was not Jeffrey Epstein’s aircraft, and there were other people on that aircraft as well.
Q: Were you aware of the connection between Epstein and Clinton?
Pritzker: Oh, no. I’d never even heard of Jeffrey Epstein, until, obviously, the scandal that broke out in what 2019.
Q: What was the purpose of the trips?
Pritzker: It’s all about the Clinton Foundation. And frankly, I had been doing work supporting health care in Africa, particularly fighting AIDS in Africa, but also the health care systems need support across, and these are the sub Saharan African countries like Liberia, Ethiopia, etc. And so I was on that trip to learn more and look at areas where I had or could support the health care systems in those countries.
Q: What do you make of Republicans trying to make hay of all of this?
Pritzker: Well, naturally, the Republicans are trying to, it’s a ‘wag the dog.’ Let’s you know, look over here. Look over here. Don’t look at the leader of their party, the leader of this country, who is a Republican, Donald Trump, who clearly is somebody that needs to be investigated, needs to be answering for his relationship with Ghislaine Maxwell, with Jeffrey Epstein, and has done none of that. You know, you saw other people testifying. Where is President Trump’s testimony?
Please pardon any transcription errors.
- Techie - Tuesday, Mar 3, 26 @ 11:54 am:
Apparently you can count on Clinton to make other Democrats look bad. At least he owed up to his mistake, but wow, not a great time to be making mistakes while under oath.
- The Most Anonymous - Tuesday, Mar 3, 26 @ 12:08 pm:
What a gift to get all this media attention with absolutely no there there, have it multiplied by Republicans throwing it in his face, and then turn it back on their own leader President Donald Trump lol
- Norseman - Tuesday, Mar 3, 26 @ 12:10 pm:
Of course, the trolls are using it for their slop.
- Candy Dogood - Tuesday, Mar 3, 26 @ 12:12 pm:
Tom Vilsack was on the trip. I think we can all agree it must have been a pretty dull affair.
- The Most Anonymous - Tuesday, Mar 3, 26 @ 12:49 pm:
The Governor’s sunglasses in that top pic are his only crime
- SOIL M - Tuesday, Mar 3, 26 @ 1:05 pm:
This is, as it always has been a distraction. The questions about Trump have been answered, many times, some people just dont want to believe it. Including but not limited to Clinton’s testimony and in the released files. If there was anything to it, it would have been released years ago. The Clinton campaign would have released it. The Obama administration would have released it. Does anyone think they would have made up all that they did if they had anything real to relase?
And the same is true about this rumor and Pritzker, if he was involved it would have already been released. It wasn’t because there was nothing there.
This continues to be a distraction
- Rich Miller - Tuesday, Mar 3, 26 @ 1:18 pm:
===This continues to be a distraction ===
Only if you believe that the very powerful and influential people who were sending fawning emails to Epstein and asking when the hottest parties were, etc. are completely innocent.
Former Prince Andrew, as one example, wasn’t arrested for being a distraction.
- Jibba - Tuesday, Mar 3, 26 @ 1:21 pm:
Soil M, releasing the Epstein files required a bill in Congress that Trump signed. It is not the practice to release files otherwise, so they were not available for Obama or Biden to release. Facts matter.
- Quizzical - Tuesday, Mar 3, 26 @ 1:28 pm:
Soil M. — the questions about Trump have been answered with lies. For instance, he says he broke off with Epstein because Epstein was a creep. There are hours of video of Trump and Epstein being creepy together. That excuse is like when Blago used to say that he didn’t like how corrupt Mike Madigan was.
- Dotnonymous x - Tuesday, Mar 3, 26 @ 1:46 pm:
If you hang out with creeps, what does that make you?
- Dotnonymous x - Tuesday, Mar 3, 26 @ 2:40 pm:
Facts only matter to honest people.
- Excitable Boy - Tuesday, Mar 3, 26 @ 3:18 pm:
- releasing the Epstein files required a bill in Congress -
Only because Trump refused to do it. And previous presidents could have released them as well.
- Chicagonk - Tuesday, Mar 3, 26 @ 3:30 pm:
I believe JB.
- Dotnonymous x - Tuesday, Mar 3, 26 @ 4:03 pm:
JB Pritzker doesn’t have to prove anything to me.