CNN “OutFront” anchor Erin Burnett discussed newly released photos from the estate of late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein on Friday and took a moment to express her disbelief over what she found herself describing.
A batch of photos released that day by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee included a few that featured President Donald Trump, in one form or another. One showed Trump posing with six unidentified women, or possibly girls, whose faces are redacted, while another showed Epstein and Trump standing next to each other at a Victoria’s Secret Angels party in 1997.
But it was another image that prompted Burnett’s aside.
As she put it, “And then there was a photo that Epstein kept as well, a bowl of novelty condoms with a caricature of Trump’s face on the wrapper and the words, quote, — can’t believe I have to read this — ‘I’m huuuuge.’”
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Burnett continued, “And even as you laugh, to think about the fact that this was Jeffrey Epstein’s possession, it’s disgusting.”
The condoms seen in the undated image appear to be a product from the housewares company Fishs Eddy, sold during Trump’s first presidential campaign. In a 2016 interview, Fishs Eddy owner Julie Gaines noted that she was a supporter of then-Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, and that the Trump-themed gag gift had become a “runaway hit.”
Trump brushed off his appearances in the latest photo trove on Friday.
“He has photos with everybody,” he said of Epstein. “I mean, almost ― there are hundreds and hundreds of people that have photos with him. So that’s no big deal. I know nothing about it.”
Burnett addressed his reaction on her show on Friday.
“But the thing about it is, is that Trump was not just one of hundreds of people that Epstein took photos with, right? They knew each other, and they knew each other well, and they knew each other over a long period of time.”
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