President Donald Trump stunned U.K. leaders during a private meeting in Scotland on July 28, 2025, when he directly addressed the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, exposing high-profile Democrats while clearing his own name.

Speaking alongside Prime Minister Keir Starmer and other officials, Trump declared: “I never went [to Epstein’s island]. And Bill Clinton went there supposedly 28 times. I never went to the island, but Larry Summers, I hear, went there… and many other very big people. Nobody ever talks about them.”

The President went further, recalling how he personally cut ties with Epstein in the 2000s after Epstein attempted to poach members of his staff. “I threw him out, persona non grata,” Trump said.

He also shot down past reports of a supposed drawing he had sent Epstein. “I don’t do drawings of women—that I can tell you.”

Trump labeled the scandal a “hoax blown out of proportion” and added that although Ghislaine Maxwell’s legal situation is in the news, it would be “inappropriate” to discuss pardons at this time.

The remarks landed like a thunderclap, with Trump flipping the Epstein conversation back onto his political rivals.