When Epstein was deposed in 2016 and was asked under oath if he ever socialized with Trump in the presence of minor girls, he claimed his Fifth Amendment right to not incriminate himself and refused to answer. (He invoked his Fifth Amendment rights at least 600 times during this deposition.)

President Donald Trump was taken aback by speculation that he was personally involved in Jeffrey Epstein’s 2019 jail cell death, author Michael Wolff said on the latest edition of. The biographer said the lingering controversy over Trump’s ties to Epstein resulted in the president having to deny culpability for his one-time friend’s demise.