Video of Donald Trump telling a reporter, “quiet, piggy,” when she asked about the Epstein files has gone viral.
According to a tweet from CBS News’ Jennifer Jacobs, the aforementioned reporter, who is a woman, works for Bloomberg. Trump said,” Quiet, quiet piggy,” and wagged his finger in the reporter’s face when she apparently “asked why, if there's nothing incriminating in the files, he's acting like there is,” per Jacobs’ tweet.
“I know nothing about that,” the president then reportedly said, per The Hill, adding, “Jeffrey Epstein and I had a very bad relationship for many years.”
The administration has been in the hot seat for months over its handling of the Epstein files and has been fighting against releasing them. However, on Sunday, following his interaction with the Bloomberg reporter, Trump changed his tune and encouraged the House Republicans to vote to release the files.
“We have nothing to hide," he wrote on Truth Social, per Newsweek, adding that "it's time to move on from this Democrat Hoax." The following day, in the Oval Office, he said he would sign the legislation to release the files.
"We'll give them everything. Sure. I would let them, let the Senate look at it, let anybody look at it, but don't talk about it too much because honestly, I don't want to take it away from us. It's really a Democrat problem. The Democrats were Epstein's friends, all of them, and it's a hoax,” Trump said.
On Tuesday, the House signed off on the Epstein Files Transparency Act; now, the Senate must vote before the legislation moves on to the president’s desk.
For months, Trump has denied having any connection to Epstein’s alleged sex trafficking ring and maintains that the pair stopped being friends in the early 2000s.
In September, the House Oversight Committee released some pages from Epstein’s 50th “birthday book,” from 2003, which included sexual jokes, images, and stories, as well as disturbing drawings of Epstein and messages to the late financier from Trump.