Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian. I'm Claire Harvey with
Speaker 1: the Front's afternoon headlines, What did Donald Trump know about
Speaker 1: the crimes of Jeffrey Epstein and when? New emails between Epstein,
Speaker 1: a convicted child sex offender, and his girlfriend Gillan Maxwell,
Speaker 1: plus an author Michael Wolfe, have been released by Democrats
Speaker 1: in the United States. They don't suggest any wrongdoing by Trump,
Speaker 1: who has always denied knowing about the crimes of his
Speaker 1: longtime friend, but the newly released emails include a twenty
Speaker 1: eleven claim from Epstein that Trump quote spent hours at
Speaker 1: Epstein's house with someone whose name was redacted. Congressional Republicans
Speaker 1: and the White House have identified that person as Virginia Dufrey. Gufrey,
Speaker 1: who died by suicide earlier this year, is a principal
Speaker 1: accuser against Epstein, Maxwell and their friend Andrew Mountbatten Windsor,
Speaker 1: the former Duke of York who's been stripped of his
Speaker 1: status as a prince in the way of the publication
Speaker 1: of her memoir. Giuffrey met Gilen Maxwell while working at
Speaker 1: Mara a Lago, the Florida resort owned by Trump. In
Speaker 1: her memoir, Giuffrey does not outline any sexual encounters with Trump,
Speaker 1: and in fact says Trump shunned Epstein and ended Epstein's
Speaker 1: membership of Mara a Lago in two thousand and seven
Speaker 1: after Epstein hit on the teenage daughter of another member.
Speaker 1: His White House spokesman Caroline Leavitt, responding to the release
Speaker 1: of the emails.
Speaker 2: These emails prove absolutely nothing other than the fact that
Speaker 2: President Trump did nothing wrong. And what President Trump has
Speaker 2: always said is that he was from Palm Beach and
Speaker 2: so was Jeffrey Epstein. Jeffrey Epstein was a member at
Speaker 2: Mara Lago until President Trump kicked him out because Jeffrey
Speaker 2: Epstein was a pedophile and he was a creep. In
Speaker 2: this email, you refer to with the name of a
Speaker 2: victim that was unredacted now and has since been reported
Speaker 2: on in this room. So I will go ahead and
Speaker 2: say it Virginia Guffrey. And it was CBS's own reporting
Speaker 2: WIJA that recently wrote that Miss Guffrey maintained, and God
Speaker 2: rest her soul, that she maintained that there was nothing inappropriate.
Speaker 2: She ever witnessed that President Trump was always extremely professional
Speaker 2: and friendly to her, And so I think it's a
Speaker 2: question worth asking the Democrat Party and you should all
Speaker 2: go ask them after this briefing of why they chose
Speaker 2: to redact that name of a victim who has already
Speaker 2: publicly made statements about her relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and
Speaker 2: is unfortunately no longer with US.
Speaker 1: Documents obtained by The Australian have revealed how the Federal
Speaker 1: government prevented former Liberal Minister Linda Reynolds from properly defending
Speaker 1: herself against the allegations made by her former staffer Brittan Higgins.
Speaker 1: Letters from lawyers representing the Commonwealth and also purporting to
Speaker 1: represent Reynolds gave Higgins an extension of time to commence
Speaker 1: her claim for a settlement, which ended up being two
Speaker 1: point four million dollars. Reynolds alleges this was against her
Speaker 1: in instructions and done without telling her. That exclusive is
Speaker 1: live now at the Australian dot Com dot a U.
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Speaker 1: it turns out to be possibly true, signists say new
Speaker 1: DNA analysis based on a bloody piece of cloth from
Speaker 1: the sofa where Adolph Hitler died by suicide in nineteen
Speaker 1: forty five has revealed the mass murderer and dictator had
Speaker 1: Calman syndrome, a genetic disorder that hinders the normal progression
Speaker 1: of puberty and the development of sexual organs. You can
Speaker 1: read that story right now at the Australian dot com
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