Shocking moment President Trump lashes out at female reporter who questions him about Epstein files
Shocking footage showing the moment President Donald Trump silenced a female reporter who quizzed him over Jeffrey Epstein has been circulating online.
The commander-in-chief lost his rag with a Bloomberg journalist while chatting to the media on board Air Force One last Friday (14 November).
He was making his way to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida when he became visibly furious with the reporter, who questioned him about his connection to Epstein.
Given last week's developments, Trump had little choice but to answer a few questions about Epstein - and he addressed the presence of his name in a host of private emails sent by the disgraced financier.
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Clearly keen to change the subject, the president sternly pointed a finger at her and uttered a brutal two-word retort.
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In the correspondence released by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee, Epstein sensationally claimed that Trump 'knew about the girls' in a 2019 email.
But on Friday, Trump denied that he had any knowledge of Epstein's wrongdoing, as he told reporters when asked to explain the email: "I know nothing about that. They would've announced that a long time ago.
"What did he mean when he spent all of that time with Bill Clinton, with the President of Harvard...and all of the other people that he spent time with?"
He went on: "Jeffrey Epstein and I had a very bad relationship for many years.
"But he also saw strength because I was president. So, he dictated a couple emails to himself."
At this point, a female reporter from Bloomberg piped up and tried to ask Trump if there was anything 'incriminating' in the Epstein emails.
Shockingly, he pointed a finger in her face and said: "Quiet! Quiet, Piggy!"
Social media users have been left stunned by the footage, with one person saying: "SERIOUSLY…if ANYONE else said even one tenth of the crap he says in the position he is they’d be DONE."
Another wrote: "Unbelievable. Trump's disrespect is out of hand."
While a third added: "Trump is just awful. And unpresidential."
Although the president has previously resisted the idea of the Epstein files being made public, he has now urged House Republicans to vote for them to be published.
In a Truth Social post shared on Sunday (16 November), he wrote: "House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files, because we have nothing to hide, and it’s time to move on from this Democrat Hoax perpetrated by Radical Left Lunatics in order to deflect from the Great Success of the Republican Party."
While additional documents have been shared since Trump took office for his second term, the FBI and US Justice Department have said Epstein's widely rumoured 'client list' doesn't exist.
Ever since, his administration has been accused of 'covering up' the Epstein files.
Topics: Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein, US News, Politics
Olivia Burke