India calls Modi’s Israel visit mention in Epstein email ‘trashy ruminations’
The foreign ministry acknowledged the 2017 trip but said the rest of the claims ‘deserve to be dismissed with the utmost contempt’
In an email addressed to a Y. Jabor in July 2017, Epstein referred to Modi’s trip to Israel, saying the Indian prime minister “took advice. and danced and sang in Israel for the benefit of the US president. They had met a few weeks ago”.
India’s Ministry of External Affairs on Saturday acknowledged Modi’s visit to Israel in July 2017, but rejected the characterisation of his trip in the email.
“Beyond the fact of the prime minister’s official visit to Israel in July 2017, the rest of the allusions in the email are little more than trashy ruminations by a convicted criminal, which deserve to be dismissed with the utmost contempt,” Randhir Jaiswal, spokesman for the MEA, said in a statement.
US officials said Friday’s release includes more than 2,000 videos and 180,000 images.