A gigantic picture of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein has been unveiled outside Windsor Castle ahead of the US President’s arrival this evening for his second state visit.
Footage shared by the political campaign group Everyone Hates Elon showed a group of individuals unfurling the giant picture on the lawn near the castle.
The group claimed the photo, which appears to span over 50 feet, is the “world’s largest Epstein photo”, funded using donations from the British public.
On Instagram, Everyone Hates Elon, said: “Trump is coming to the UK to avoid the Epstein story. Unfortunately, the British public just crowdfunded the world’s biggest photo of Donald with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.”
The image, taken in the 1990s, was planted hours before Trump is set to land in the UK for his first night at Windsor Castle, followed by an evening at Chequers, the Prime Minister’s country residence.
The group previously pasted the photo on a bus stop outside the US Embassy in Nine Elms in July, as well as other posters featuring derogatory messages about the President.
This comes after Trump recently came under scrutiny for having allegedly written a lewd letter to the disgraced financier in his 50th “birthday book” in 2003.
The letter to Epstein , allegedly written by Trump, is a poem superimposed over a woman’s body, featuring Trump’s signature at the bottom.
Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, strongly denied Trump’s involvement with the book and said handwriting experts reviewed it, confirming the President’s signature did not feature at the bottom of the letter.
Compiled by Epstein’s sex-trafficking associate Ghislaine Maxwell, the 238-page book features letters from high profile figures including Bill Clinton and former UK ambassador to the US Lord Mandelson, who referred to Epstein as his “best pal” in the book, as well as explicit drawings and pictures of Epstein embracing women in bikinis.
Both leaders may come under scrutiny for separate incidents relating to the Epstein scandal, after it was revealed that Sir Keir defended Lord Mandelson at PMQs last week while knowing that further revelations about the peer’s relationship with US financier Epstein would come to light.
Sir Keir will face further questions about his leadership today as a three-hour emergency debate will be held in the Commons during which MPs will probe the Prime Minister’s case for sacking Lord Mandelson when he did.
This comes after Sir Keir dismissed Lord Mandelson from his position as UK ambassador to the US after emails were published exposing the former ambassador’s relationship with Epstein.
The emails, published by Bloomberg, included passages in which Lord Mandelson told Epstein to “fight for early release” shortly before he was sentenced to 18 months in prison.
He is also reported to have told Epstein “I think the world of you” the day before the disgraced financier began his sentence for soliciting prostitution from a minor in June 2008.
