The statue of President Trump and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, holding his hand, returned to the National Trade Center on Thursday, in full of the US Capitol.
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The statue of President Trump, who passes his hand in the hand with the convicted sexual criminal Jeffrey Epstein, has returned to the DC National Trade Center, for more than a week After it was suddenly deleted In preliminary hours.
A statue with bronze, originally named after Best friends forever But since then renamed Why can't we be friends?Turning his head when he appeared in front of the Capitol of the United States on September 23. His sign notes “long -term connection between President Donald J. Trump and his closest friend,” Jeffrey Epstein. “
Trump sought to downplay his friendship with a disgraced financier who died in prison in August 2019. He claims Epstein's poaching of employees -including young women who worked in the Trump spa.
Last week, the representative of the White House Ebigail Jackson told NPR in his statement that “this is not news, that Epstein knew Donald Trump because Donald Trump drove Epstein out of his club for the fact that he was crawling.”
A group called “Secret Handsome”, which was behind others Satirical statues against Trump In the district of Colombia over the past year – received permission from the service of national parks (NPS) to demonstrate a statue of friendship until September 28, according to records, common with the NPR. But the police of the American park pulled him to the truck and carried him away before sunrise on September 24, less than the whole day after he appeared.
The secret member of the handshake group, which acted on the terms of anonymity from the fear of retaliation by the Trump administration, said NPR by e -mail at that time that they did not receive a written notice of 24 hours, as required by permission.
The representative of the Ministry of the Interior told NPR that the statue was deleted “because it did not correspond to the issued permission”, although she did not indicate how. The White House did not answer NPR questions about the removal of the statue.
Later, the group was able to restore the statue-with figures torn from their pedestals and were divided into pieces, and began to try to restore it. One week and one unsuccessful attempt later, Why can't we be friends? He returned to the shopping center on Thursday.
On Thursday, the audience photographs the statue, and the Washington monument is visible behind them.
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“Just like the tanned confederation general, forced to return to the public square, the statue of Donald Trump Jeffrey Epstein rose from the wreckage in order to again gloriously stand up at the National Trade Center,” wrote the secret member of the e -mail in the NPR.
The statue is allowed to stay in the shopping center until 8 pm on local time on October 6th.
In fact, this is the third permission that the group received for this statue. At the end of last week, the group informed NPR that she submitted an application and received the second permission to install the repaired statue in the same place. It said that they were heading to the shopping center when the NP suddenly abolished their permission by phone “without explanation”. This prompted the group to release 3D-principal versions statues online.
NPR turned to NPS for comment, but did not hear that the time of publication. The federal government has closed since the events last week, setting Thousands of agency employees On vacation.
Trump administration continues to encounter calls for release “Epstein files“The guy of documents from various investigations in Epstein, which then candidate Trump promised to release if he was re -elected. His refusal of this caused criticism and pressure on the part of Congress, when the Committee on Supervision of the Chamber was put in court and publishes the pages of documents in your own investigationField
NPR/PBS News/Marist The survey was released on Wednesday It was found that 61% of Americans do not approve of the processing of Epstein's set files, and 77% in favor of their exemption with remote names of victims.
