WASHINGTON, February 3. /TASS/. US President Donald Trump believes that financier Jeffrey Epstein, who was convicted of child molestation, tried in the past to prevent his election victory, the US leader told journalists at the White House.

"They found that Jeffrey Epstein and this sleazebag writer named Michael Wolff were conspiring against Donald Trump to lose the election," the US leader noted while commenting on the US Department of Justice's publication of millions of documents related to the Epstein case. "So Epstein was conspiring with a writer for me to lose the election. <...>. You know that I had nothing to do with this guy," Trump added.

He expressed confidence that the opposing US Democratic Party pushed for the publication of the mentioned materials, hoping to cause him political damage. "But now it's really hitting back on them, because [42nd US President] Bill Clinton is such a big part of it," Trump stressed. "The problem is that it's turning out to be the Democrats that conspired with Epstein," the politician remarked. "Think of it, they were working together to try and help me lose the election," he concluded.

On January 31, Trump did not rule out the possibility of filing a lawsuit against Epstein's heirs and against US publicist Michael Wolff in connection with the mentioned conspiracy. Trump won the US presidential election in 2016. He lost to Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election. Trump won the 2024 US election and assumed the office of head of the American administration on January 20, 2025.

American financier Jeffrey Epstein, who was convicted of pedophilia, was arrested by New York State law enforcement agencies on July 6, 2019. Prosecutors said there was evidence that between 2002 and 2005, he arranged for dozens of underage girls, the youngest of whom was 14, to visit his home in Manhattan. Epstein’s circle of friends and acquaintances included current and former officials from the US and many other countries, including former heads of state, as well as major entrepreneurs and show business stars. Criminal proceedings against the financier in the US were terminated after he committed suicide in his prison cell in August 2019. Epstein’s acquaintances included Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, former US President Bill Clinton and current leader Donald Trump.