NEW YORK _ President Donald Trump now claims he was "never a fan" of billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
But the cameras tell a different story as a newly unearthed NBC video shows the future president getting chummy with the pervy hedge fund titan at a Mar-a-Lago party with NFL football cheerleaders in 1992.
"Look at her," a youthful looking Trump mouths to Epstein on the tape, putting his arm around his billionaire buddy. "She's hot."
Epstein flashes a wide smile. Then the financier doubles over in laughter as Trump makes another unintelligible remark to him.
The video was shot for an NBC celebrity show. It was billed as a peek inside Trump's party palace in Palm Beach.
At the time, Trump was a real estate big wig trying to make the jump into entertainment. He hosted a group of cheerleaders from the Buffalo Bills, the team he was trying to purchase.
Epstein was still 15 years away from being charged for paying young girls for sex at his palatial mansion nearby. He got a sweetheart plea deal from then-U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta, a misstep that came back to haunt Acosta when he resigned last week as Trump's labor secretary.
Trump has insisted he barely knew Epstein from Florida social circles. "I was never a fan," the president said after Epstein was charged with a string of federal sex trafficking charges.
The tape sure makes the two men look like pals. Trump urges Epstein to "come on in" as the tape rolls, and the pair ogle the gyrating cheerleaders.
