Fox Business senior correspondent Charles Gasparino put the latest reporting on Jeffery Epstein into perspective Thursday morning, reminding colleagues that former President Donald Trump was “friends at one point” with the convicted sex trafficker when they brought up former President Bill Clinton‘s involvement — while noting that being among Epstein’s extensive network of associates doesn’t necessarily imply anything “sordid” attached to knowing him.

America’s Newsroom anchor Bill Hemmer asked Gasparino if there were any new revelations in the 900 pages of court documents that were unsealed on Wednesday regarding a case involving Epstein’s partner Ghislaine Maxwell, who is currently serving a 20-year sentence for her role in the sex trafficking scheme.

Gasparino replied that there was “nothing” new, nothing that wasn’t already known, revealed in these new documents.

“This is a story about who Jeffrey Epstein knew,” he said, describing how the disgraced financier “knew so many people in power” in Wall Street, academia, and politics that it was hard to “do justice to his Rolodex,” which also included celebrities as well as billionaires who were at the top of major financial companies like JP Morgan.

“This doesn’t mean they were in a sordid relationship,” Gasparino emphasized. “This means they were in a business relationship with a guy who was a high net worth broker.”

“I’m not excusing his crimes,” he said, but “a lot of these people had no idea,” and that perception was easy to maintain after Epstein’s initial jail sentence was so short, just a year, so there was a “rationalization” that “he made a mistake” and “he might have slept with somebody” he didn’t know was underage, not that he was “that type of guy.”

“That’s really the mystery,” said Gasparino. “Why did he only get a year the first time?”

“Also, President Clinton is named,” said Hemmer’s co-anchor Dana Perino. “There is this one line that says, that at one point Epstein says ‘Clinton likes them young.’ Is that new? It’s sort of been out there? Also is that something significant that we should be aware of?”

“That Clinton likes them young?” Gasparino replied. “What does that mean? Here’s something really interesting, if you go back in time — and I did a lot of research on this, Donald Trump was quoted as saying that — you know, Donald Trump and Epstein were friends at one point. In Palm Beach. And Trump was commenting about Epstein, I’m paraphrasing.”

Perino called for the producers to play a video clip of Trump talking about Epstein, in which the ex-president said that he had a “falling out with [Epstein] a long time ago” and was “not a fan of his.” After it played Gasparino said “that’s not the quote” and he was thinking of a different clip.

The quote Gasparino was meant, he said, was from “either New York Magazine or Vanity Fair where he said Jeffrey Epstein is a great guy — this is before they had the falling out — he hangs around with a lot of beautiful women including very young women. Now this is from Donald Trump who hung around with Jeffrey Epstein. Now are we supposed to play a game, well that means Donald Trump was part of that sordid relationship? No, that’s not the way it works.”

It was “tawdry,” and “not good for the people named,” Hemmer said, quoting Gasparino’s column, but “what does it mean you said hello to Epstein?” so “we wait for the next drop, whenever that is.”

“It’s a sordid, interesting story –” Gasparino said.

“– that involves very rich people,” said Hemmer.

“And there’s victims,” added Perino, “and young women, even girls.”

“Just being on the list,” wasn’t necessarily proof of anything, Gasparino suggested.

“I never had his number,” Perino quipped.

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