US President Donald Trump has threatened to sue Trevor Noah, the host of the Grammy Awards ceremony that took place on Sunday in Los Angeles, for a series of comments in which he linked the New York magnate to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
“The Grammy Awards are the worst, practically unwatchable. CBS is lucky that this garbage no longer pollutes their network. The host, Trevor Noah, whoever he is, is almost as bad as Jimmy Kimmel at the Low-Rated Academy Awards,” he asserted in a message posted on social media.
In this regard, he stressed that Noah is “wrong” for “incorrectly” saying that Trump and former President Bill Clinton “spent time on Epstein’s island.” “Wrong! I can’t speak for Bill, but I have never been there or anywhere near that island, and until these false and defamatory statements were made, I had never been accused of going there, not even by the fake news media,” he stated.
“Noah, a total loser, better get his facts straight, and he better do it soon. It looks like I’m going to have to send my lawyers to sue this poor, pathetic, and talentless guy, and I’m going to sue him for a lot of money. (…) Get ready, Noah, because I’m going to have some fun with you,” he concluded.
His words come just days after the Department of Justice released more than three million additional pages of documents related to Epstein under the Transparency Act passed ad hoc in November.
This package includes more than 2,000 videos and 180,000 images and, combined with previous releases, brings the total amount of information released “in compliance with the law” to nearly 3.5 million pages. These documents have been compiled as a result of the investigations against Epstein and his former partner, Ghislaine Maxwell, as well as during the inquiries into the sex offender’s death.
However, Trump has asserted that the information contained in this new batch of declassified documents “exonerates” him from any connection to the deceased businessman.
Epstein was arrested in July 2019 on charges of sexual abuse and trafficking of dozens of girls in the early 2000s. This millionaire, who at one point even associated with figures such as Prince Andrew of England—brother of Charles III—Bill Clinton, and Donald Trump, was found hanged in his cell.
