Fubar NewsA mobile billboard of a photo of Donald Trump with the late convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein has been driving around Aberdeen to “welcome” the US President to the north of Scotland.
Trump has been visiting his Turnberry golf resort in South Ayrshire over the weekend.
After meeting with the Prime Minister on Monday morning, the President is travelling to visit his other Scottish golf course, the Trump International Golf Links, in Aberdeenshire.
A campaign group aimed at “taking on billionaires” has put the image of the President posing with Epstein on a mobile digital billboard along with the words: “Welcome to Scotland, Donald”.
“We tried to get close to Trump’s golf course with this van showing Trump with convicted sex trafficker Epstein. The police stopped us,” the Everyone Hates Elon campaign group posted on Instagram on Monday.
“We’ll be driving it around all day anyway, after all, it’s just a real photo of some friends.”
Asked about the Epstein case during a press conference at Turnberry, Trump told reporters it was “a hoax that’s been built up way beyond proportion”.
“I can say this, those files were run by the worst scum on Earth,” he said.
“They were run by (former FBI director James) Comey, they were run by (former US attorney general Merrick) Garland, they were run by (former president Joe) Biden, and all of the people that actually ran the government.”
He said: “Those files were run by these people. They were run by my enemy. If there was anything in there, they would have used them for the election.”
Trump had previously been friends with Epstein, who was arrested in 2019 on federal sex trafficking charges.
Epstein killed himself in his cell in New York City while awaiting trial.
His former girlfriend, the British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, was later convicted at trial and sentenced to 20 years in prison for sex trafficking, conspiracy and transportation of a minor for illegal sexual activity.
The president also said: “I’m not a drawing person”, as he was asked about a letter to Epstein, written more than two decades ago, that reportedly included a sketched outline of a naked woman.
He said: “I’m not a drawing person. I don’t do drawings. Sometimes you would say, would you draw a building? And I’ll draw four lines and a little roof, you know, for a charity stuff, but I’m not a drawing person.
“I don’t do drawings of women, that I can tell you.”
Questioned whether he had been asked to give Maxwell a pardon, Trump told reporters: “Well, I’m allowed to give her a pardon, but nobody’s approached me with it. Nobody’s asked me about it.
“It’s in the news – that aspect of it – but right now, it would be inappropriate to talk about it.”
Trump also insisted he had never been to Epstein’s private island, Little Saint James.
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