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Donald Trump felt "badly" for the UK royal household aft Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, formerly known arsenic Prince Andrew, was stripped of his titles and called the concern “tragic.
"He made the remarks erstwhile asked by an AFP newsman aboard Air Force One astir the caller saga. “It’s a unspeakable happening that’s happened to the family,” Trump said.
“That’s been a tragic situation, and it’s excessively bad. I mean, I consciousness severely for the family.”On Thursday the King took the melodramatic determination to officially region Andrew’s Prince and Duke of York titles and HRH style. The determination followed unit aft the work of Giuffre’s devastating posthumous memoir, detailing caller accusations astir his ties with Epstein. Andrew denies the accusations. He volition present determination to a spot connected the Sandringham Estate, which volition beryllium privately funded by the King.Meanwhile, successful the US, members of a legislature committee investigating the Jeffrey Epstein lawsuit person intensified their calls for Andrew Mountbatten Windsor to reply questions astir his links to the precocious enactment offender. At slightest 4 Democrat members of the House Oversight Committee renewed their calls for Andrew to testify, though the sheet is controlled by Republicans, who person not indicated they would enactment the move.
Congressman Suhas Subramanyam told the BBC: "If helium wants to wide his name, if helium wants to bash close by the victims, helium volition travel forward". Andrew could look remotely, person a lawyer contiguous and could talk to the sheet privately, Subramanyam said. "Frankly, Andrew's sanction has travel up galore times from the victims," helium told Radio 4's Today programme connected Saturday. "So helium intelligibly has cognition of what happened and we conscionable privation him to travel guardant and archer america what helium knows." He added: "No substance who it is - American oregon not - everyone should beryllium looked at." Fellow committee subordinate Raja Krishnamoorthi told BBC Newsnight helium would beryllium consenting to formally summon Andrew with a subpoena, though helium conceded this would beryllium hard to enforce portion helium was extracurricular of the US.
