US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters on Air Force One on his way to his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, as White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt listens. (AP Photo)

US President Donald Trump on Friday denied knowledge of a newly released email from Jeffrey Epstein that said he “knew about the girls,” and pressed for federal probes into Epstein’s ties to prominent Democrats and institutions, according to US media reports. Asked aboard Air Force One about the email, Trump said: “I know nothing about that.”

He also told reporters he had not considered pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s associate who is serving a 20-year sentence for sex-trafficking offences. “I don’t rule it in or out, I don’t even think about it,” he said, according to Reuters .

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