President Donald Trump is defending his retweets of baseless conspiracy theories attempting to link Jeffrey Epstein’s apparent suicide with former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Speaking with reporters in Morristown, New Jersey, on Tuesday, Trump said he thought it was “fine” to retweet the conspiracy because it came from “a very highly respected conservative pundit.” But the president also appeared to try to downplay his actions, saying, “That was a retweet. That wasn’t from me, that was from him.” Read the rest of the story at HuffPost.
