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Bill Clinton's press secretary released a statement on Monday, saying that the former president of the United States "knows nothing" about the "terrible crimes" linked to Jeffrey Epstein.

State prosecutors earlier unsealed an indictment charging 66-year-old billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein, who is known to have widely socialized with the political and cultural elite, with sex trafficking and sex trafficking conspiracy, targeting dozens of victims, some of whom were no older than 14. If convicted, Epstein faces up to 45 years in prison.

The statement published on the former president's press secretary Angel Ureña's Twitter page says that "In 2002 and 2003, President Clinton took a total of four trips on Jeffrey Epstein's airplane: one to Europe, one to Asia, and two to Africa, which included stops in connection with the work of the Clinton Foundation."

"He had one meeting with Epstein in his Harlem office in 2002, and around the same time made one brief visit to Epstein's New York apartment with a staff member and his security detail. He's not spoken to Epstein in well over a decade, and he has never been to Little St. James Island, Epstein's ranch in New Mexico, or his residence in Florida," the statement adds.

​Meanwhile, prosecutors stated that hundreds, possibly thousands, of "sexually suggestive" photographs of nude underage girls have been seized from Jeffrey Epstein's New York City mansion as part of an ongoing investigation into the sexual misconduct allegations brought against the financier.

Jeffrey Epstein appeared in a New York City federal court on Monday, rejecting the sexual abuse allegations and pleading not guilty to the charges he is facing.

'Reputation managers' get to work scrubbing Clinton-Epstein connection from Wikipedia

on The internet's unofficial Ministry of Truth has been hard at work trying to memory-hole links between former US President Bill Clinton and financier Jeffrey Epstein, who was recently arrested and charged with sex trafficking.

Epstein's Wikipedia bio came in for some quick whitewashing, with one editor removing multiple references to Bill Clinton flying on the billionaire's private jet - nicknamed the Lolita Express - on Sunday morning, after the news of Epstein's arrest broke. The fact that Clinton had flown on the jet 26 times, despite being well-sourced and not in dispute, was "not relevant to [Epstein's] personal life," editor 'Joeblacko' complained, calling it "a smear toward bill Clinton."

An eagle-eyed Wikipedia reader spotted the edit, however, and called in the cavalry with a tweet comparing 'before' and 'after' versions of the article that was reposted to Reddit's The_Donald community. By Sunday evening, the material had been re-added by user 'BD2412,' who slapped a week-long "protection" on the article, preventing drive-by edits by new and unregistered users.

Clinton's denial of the "26 flights" number was added to the article on Tuesday night by user 'Soibangla,' a known quantity in the American politics topic area, who also tweaked a Clinton quote praising Epstein, noting there was "no evidence [Clinton and Epstein] were 'friends.'"

Among the other editors making changes to Epstein's page was the notorious Philip Cross, a mysterious British figure who has edited Wikipedia for 15 years for the equivalent of full-time working hours, with a single-minded dedication to negatively skewing the biographies of antiwar politicians and journalists. Cross was relatively well-behaved in the Epstein article, however, restricting his actions to copy-edits and smoothing out text.

Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales even stopped by, to add a citation confirming the fact that Clinton had taken 26 flights on the Lolita Express. Wales has spoken at Clinton Global Initiative events and once called up Hillary Clinton's office to find out how she would prefer to be listed on Wikipedia.

"When the spotlight's off Epstein, the Clinton mentions can be edited out like they should be," editor Cramyourspam snarked on the article's talk page, referring to the usual drop-off in editor interest when a subject moves out of the news. "We're an academic/journalistic resource. With that role comes a social responsibility to soil one political side and shine another."

Google was accused of undertaking its own information warfare on Clinton's behalf, tweaking its inscrutable algorithm to return photos of Epstein with President Donald Trump when users searched "Jeffrey Epstein Bill Clinton."

The search results include multiple photos of Epstein and Trump, and the only photos of Epstein and Clinton it yields are split-screens - the two men are never shown in the same photo. A few of the results don't even include Epstein - just Trump, or Trump and Alex Acosta, the current labor secretary and former federal prosecutor in Florida who let Epstein off with a slap on the wrist when he was convicted of soliciting an underage girl for prostitution in 2008.

Google's search-tweaking shenanigans are legendary and were confirmed in a video released by Project Veritas last month, which claimed Google's "Machine Learning Fairness" algorithm was responsible. The algorithm is reportedly designed to replace results that are "factually accurate" but "unjust or prejudicial" - like an image search for CEOs that returns primarily men - with Google's ideal reality.

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Reacting to the news, Brexit Party leader Farage said Darroch was "the wrong person to be the British ambassador," and that he was "a globalist in outlook, totally opposed to the Trump doctrine."

"The comments are wholly unsurprising but for him to speculate about Trump's alleged involvement with Russia shows him to be totally unsuitable for the job and the sooner he is gone the better," he told the Daily Mail.

Darroch is due to leave his post in Washington at the end of the year. Trump said that his friend Farage would do a "great job" ambassador to the US in 2016, an idea that was promptly quashed by the Foreign Office and Downing Street.

Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today program, Fox revealed that he would be making a personal apology to Ivanka Trump, the US president's daughter, when the pair meet in Washington DC on Monday. The UK minister warned that such behavior can lead to damaging the relationship with the US, and harm Britain's security interests.

They are unethical and they are unpatriotic... This is such a damaging, potentially damaging, event, that I hope the full force of our internal discipline, or even the law, will come down on whoever actually carried out this particular act.

[...]

The disclosure of the explosive memos prompted a stinging rebuke from US President Trump, accusing Darroch of not serving the "UK well."

"We are not big fans of that man, and he has not served the UK well, so I can understand and I can say things about him, but I won't bother," the president added.

Donald Trump said Tuesday that he will retaliate against the United Kingdom's ambassador in Washington by freezing him out of American diplomacy, as punishment for harsh language about him in secret cables leaked to The Mail on Sunday.

The president's quasi-declaration of statecraft war came in a pair of tweets that tore into Britain's outgoing Prime Minister Theresa May for her handling of Brexit, and suggested that a new leader in London could replace the ambassador, Sir Kim Darroch.

'I have been very critical about the way the U.K. and Prime Minister Theresa May handled Brexit. What a mess she and her representatives have created. I told her how it should be done, but she decided to go another way,' Trump tweeted.

'I do not know the Ambassador, but he is not liked or well thought of within the U.S. We will no longer deal with him,' he added. 'The good news for the wonderful United Kingdom is that they will soon have a new Prime Minister. While I thoroughly enjoyed the magnificent State Visit last month, it was the Queen who I was most impressed with!'

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Trump gave Sir Kim Darroch the back of his hand in a pair of tweets that also lashed out at outgoing Prime Minister Theresa May

© Donald Trump/Twitter

© Donald Trump/Twitter

Sir Kim Darroch, the British ambassador to the US has resigned over leaked cables in which he branded President Donald Trump's administration as "dysfunctional," "inept," and "incompetent."

In his statement he revealed that he wanted to "put an end" to the speculation around his future following the furore over the leaking of the damaging secret memos. It prompted Trump to label Darroch a "wacky" and "very stupid guy," insisting his administration would not be dealing with him anymore.

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