'Quiet!’: Trump shuts down reporter asking about Epstein allegation that he 'knew about the girls’

WASHINGTON, DC: President Donald Trump shut down a reporter who tried to ask a question regarding the Department of Justice’s files on disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

The House Oversight Committee released thousands of emails to and from Epstein earlier this week. In a 2011 email from Epstein to author Michael Wolff, he alleged that Trump "knew about the girls".

Trump says Epstein and he 'had a very bad relationship for many years'

Donald Trump took questions from reporters on Air Force One on Friday, November 14, where one of them asked if he understood what Jeffrey Epstein’s comment about POTUS being aware of "the girls" meant.

"Mr President, what did Jeffrey Epstein mean in emails when he said you 'knew about the girls?'" the reporter asked.

The POTUS replied, "I know nothing about that. They would’ve announced that a long time ago. It’s really, what did he mean when he spent all the time with Bill Clinton, with the president of Harvard, who you know, that is Summers, Larry Summers, whatever his name is, and all of the other people that he spent time with."

"Jeffrey Epstein and I had a very bad relationship for many years, but he also saw a strength because I was president. So he dictated a couple of memos to himself. Give me a break. You gotta find out what did he know with respect to Bill Clinton, with respect to the head of Harvard, with the respect of all of those people that he knew, including JPMorgan Chase," Trump added.

Meanwhile, the reporter further asked, "Sir, if there’s nothing incriminating in the files..." but was interjected by Trump who said, "Quiet! Quiet!"

The POTUS then moved on to another reporter who asked about Venezuela. 

In summer 2025, Attorney General Pam Bondi reversed course on releasing the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) files on Epstein. 

Meanwhile, after claiming in February that Epstein’s client list was "sitting on my desk right now", she said there was no such list.

Epstein lost $10K bet to Trump over Marla Maples

The newly released documents show that Jeffrey Epstein claimed to have lost a bet of $10,000 to Donald Trump, after the latter’s then-spouse, Marla Maples, became pregnant.

Epstein paid off his wager in an unusual way by sending a truckload of baby food to Trump, as per the email. The email was among the thousands of Epstein-related documents published on Wednesday, November 12, by the House Oversight Committee, many of which refer to the POTUS. 

Interestingly, the disgraced financier revealed the bizarre pregnancy-related wager during a 2016 conversation with author Deepak Chopra, which took place months before Trump’s first election win. 

Chopra emailed Epstein on July 29, 2016, seeking to arrange a FaceTime or Skype call with him.

"Btw, Do you know Marla Maples?," Chopra asked Epstein, as the late offender said, "Yes". 

He added, "In fact when she told donald she was pregnant...lost a 10k dollar bet with him, and sent him a truck of baby food in in payment."

Epstein added that he had not spoken to Maples for years since then. 

Maples, a Georgia-born actress and singer, gave birth to Donald Trump’s daughter Tiffany in October 1993, shortly after the then real estate tycoon divorced his first wife, Ivana Trump.