Trump claimed he doesn't know Prince Andrew. These photos say otherwise.
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Trump claimed he doesn't know Prince Andrew. These photos say otherwise.
Alexandra Ma, INSIDER 3 hours ago 
- President Donald Trump told reporters on Tuesday morning: "I don't know Prince Andrew."
- However, there are photos of the two men attending functions and chatting effusively to each other dating as far back as February 2000, and as recently as June 2019.
- Prince Andrew's reputation has a taken a massive hit since he gave a prime-time interview about his relationship with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
- Trump has also sought to distance himself from Epstein in recent months.
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President Donald Trump on Tuesday denied knowing Prince Andrew, the second son of Queen Elizabeth II currently facing public scrutiny over his friendship with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
Trump made the claim at a press conference in London, where he is attending a summit with NATO leaders on Tuesday and Wednesday .
"I don't know Prince Andrew but it's a tough story, it's a very tough story," he told reporters, according to Reuters .
But a series of photos of the two men together — dating as far back as 2000, and as recently as June 2019, say otherwise.
This photo from February 12, 2000 shows then-real estate developer Trump, his then-girlfriend Melania Knauss, and Andrew at Mar-a-Lago, Trump's private golf club in Palm Beach, Florida.
On the same evening, Trump was pictured with Epstein, and his alleged madam, Ghislaine Maxwell, who appear to have been attending the same event as Prince Andrew.
The two men met again in early June 2019, when Trump went to London for D-Day memorial celebrations.
It's not clear if they had met each other again between 2000 and 2019, as there are no photos of them together in public.
However, the two men carried out multiple engagements together in June , which included a breakfast meeting and a service at Westminster Abbey to honor military veterans. They were photographed greeting each other effusively at the time.
Andrew was also seen speaking to Trump's daughter and son-in-law, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, at a Buckingham Palace reception later that night.
Trump was at the same reception speaking to the Queen.
The Queen is expected to host another reception for NATO leaders, including Trump, on Tuesday night.
However, Andrew — who was two weeks ago stripped of his royal duties "for the foreseeable future" — was left off the guest list, the Evening Standard and The Sun reported.
She also canceled a scheduled party for Andrew's 60th birthday, The Sunday Times reported last week.
Andrew came under further fire on Monday night , when BBC's "Panorama" aired a program featuring Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre Roberts detailing her alleged sexual abuse by the prince.
"This is not some sordid sex story," Giuffre said. "This is a story of being trafficked. This is a story of abuse, and this is a story of your guys' royalty."
"In the car Ghislaine tells me that I have to do for Andrew what I do for Jeffrey and that just made me sick," Giuffre said, referring to Epstein's ex-girlfriend and alleged madam, Ghislaine Maxwell . "I just didn't expect it from royalty. I didn't expect it from someone people look up to and admire."
Andrew has repeatedly denied "any form of sexual contact or relationship" with Giuffre, claiming in another BBC interview last month that he had been at a party in the Woking branch of Pizza Express with his daughter at the time of the alleged meeting.
Trump has also distanced himself from Epstein despite claiming in 2002 that the two men shared a long friendship. Kellyanne Conway, the president's counselor, said this year that Trump hadn't spoken to Epstein "in 10 or 15 years," and called the charges leveled against Epstein "disgusting" and "obviously criminal."
Claiming not to know Prince Andrew was not the only falsehood Trump gave at his Tuesday morning press conference.
He repeated a false claim that he predicted the outcome of the 2016 Brexit referendum "the day before" the result, while he was opening his Turnberry golf course in Scotland.
However, the Brexit vote was on June 23, 2016, and Trump was not at Turnberry until June 24, Insider's Thomas Colson noted .
- Read more:
- How Prince Andrew's voluntary decision to do a prime-time interview about his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein set his reputation on fire and tanked his royal career
- 'I just didn't expect it from royalty': Prince Andrew accuser gives tear-filled interview and implores the British public to stand with her
- Everything we know about Trump's connection to financier Jeffrey Epstein, who was charged with sex trafficking
- The NATO summit started as uncomfortably as expected, with Trump slamming Macron's 'very, very nasty' statement on the group being brain-dead
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His habitual lying is really getting out of hand.
To his sycophants his lying isn't a bug, it's a feature. His religious conservative supporters know they don't actually have an argument based on facts, so supporting someone who lies so easily is their next best option for forcing their religious beliefs into secular society. And the fact that his lying bothers Democrats so much is just an added bonus to them.
Stopped believing anything Trump said many years ago.
Me too.
Billy knew Andrew "way much better"
than Donald EVER did !
When Trump says he doesnt know someone he means he didnt have dinner with them in the past month.
Yet another lie from fat fuck crooked donnie's mouth
That was Reeeeeaaaaallly nice !
Isn't it NICE to have the truth for a change
Still waiting.... but I'm a "Patient" sort !
Nope, you are the brat sort
If that's the new name for "Patient"....Okay !
Considering that Randy Andy has basically been thrown out of the Royal family and his funding cut off, maybe he will become a barista at Star Bucks or cage cleaner at the zoo.
Is shaking hands or posing for pictures at special events supposed to be significant of something that matters? There are people with thousands of Facebook friends. Does anybody really think of all those people as "friends?" If the only way Trump "knows" a person is through the usual hand-shaking and photo ops, I'm fine with him saying he doesn't know the guy. If they play golf or otherwise hang out together, that's different.
If it was somehow advantageous to Trump, he would no doubt say he is great friends with Prince Andrew. He will say anything if it benefits him. His word is worthless either way.
That's probably true.
He didn't claim that he wasn't friends with PA, he claimed that he didn't know him which we know is a lie.
“Knowing” someone - especially when you are like to be asked questions about the person - can mean different things to different people. For example, you and I have exchanged comments with each other but I wouldn’t say I “know” you.
You continue to amuse. Never stop.
/s
The difference is that have never met face to face.
I have had the good fortune of meeting both my Congressional representative and my local rep in the state senate at events where I was a prominent person in the proceedings (in other words, they literally came to see what I was doing). I even had brief conversations with them. I still wouldn’t go around saying I “knew” them. Maybe that’s just me.
Make that we have never.
Another thing, Trump has a habit of denying knowing people (Epstein, the two Russians, and now PA) when proof exists that he does. He thinks that by doing that, their stink does not get on him but his stink already exists. He believes that we will forget about it if he denies it. You will, but I won't and either will history.
Trump knows nobody. The opportunity and convenience is all that mattered to him. He is an impersonal man.