{"id":84031,"date":"2026-06-30T08:22:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T12:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=84031"},"modified":"2026-06-30T08:22:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T12:22:35","slug":"former-aide-contradicts-clinton-testimony-on-visiting-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/former-aide-contradicts-clinton-testimony-on-visiting-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Aide Contradict&#8217;s Clinton Testimony On Visiting Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From Fox News:<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">In a 2020 tell-a<span style=\"color: #000000;\">ll\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2020\/12\/confessions-of-a-clintonworld-exile\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_politics_article_main-content_article-body_6_7\"><u>interview with Vanity Fair,<\/u><\/a>\u00a0Band said he grew to dislike Epstein during a 2002 trip aboard Epstein\u2019s private jet with Clinton to Africa and advised the former president to end his relationship with him.\u00a0Also in the interview, Band said Clinton in 2003 traveled to Epstein\u2019s private\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/travel\/regions\/caribbean\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_politics_article_main-content_article-body_6_8\">Caribbean<\/a>\u00a0island,<\/span> Little St. James. Band said he declined to attend over his objections to Epstein.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">Band\u2019s account conflicts with Clinton\u2019s repeated assertion that he never visited. Clinton, who has denied any wrongdoing, has pointed to travel logs that do not show such a trip. Band told Vanity Fair he sought to bar Maxwell from Clinton-related events amid his broader rupture with the Clinton family. Maxwell was notably close to Chelsea Clinton and was invited to her wedding in 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Fox News: In a 2020 tell-all\u00a0interview with Vanity Fair,\u00a0Band said he grew to dislike Epstein during a 2002 trip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84031","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84032,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84031\/revisions\/84032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}