The president of the United States, Donald Trump, described this Thursday as “sad” the arrest of former Prince Andrés Mountbatten-Windsor for his ties to the deceased businessman and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, in addition to regretting the negative repercussions that the case has had on the British royal family.
“I think it’s very bad for the royal family.”
“I think it’s a shame. I think it’s very sad. I think it’s very bad for the royal family. It’s very very sad, in my opinion. It’s very sad to see that,” the Republican magnate said aboard the presidential plane, as reported by CNN.
Trump has thus regretted that the case could negatively affect his brother, the British monarch Charles III. “It is very sad to see this and what is happening with his brother, who will obviously be coming to our country very soon. He is a fantastic man, the king,” he said.
On the other hand, he has reiterated that he has been “exonerated” of any crime within the framework of the plot. “In a way, I’m an expert because I’ve been completely exonerated,” he said, adding that “you can talk about it very kindly.”
The arrest deals a devastating blow to the British monarchy
The arrest and subsequent release this Thursday of Andrés Mountbatten-Windsor for alleged misconduct in relation to the convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein scandal has been a devastating blow to the British monarchy.
After several months of controversy over the extent of the links between the former prince and the American pedophile magnate, the Thames Valley Police, the law enforcement force that corresponds to Windsor, arrested the former Duke of York on Thursday, who remained at the police station for about eleven hours after being interrogated following an investigation focused on alleged leaks of sensitive British Government documents by Andrés to Epstein when he was special trade representative of the United Kingdom between 2001 and 2011.
The explosive news of the arrest came shortly after Prime Minister Keir Starmer told the BBC hours earlier that no one was “above the law” when referring to the Epstein case, the billionaire who died in August 2019 in a US prison for trafficking in underage girls for sexual exploitation.
