{"id":2289935,"date":"2026-02-19T22:26:38","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T22:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2289935"},"modified":"2026-02-19T22:26:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T22:26:38","slug":"trump-laments-arrest-of-ex-prince-andrew-over-epstein-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/trump-laments-arrest-of-ex-prince-andrew-over-epstein-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Laments Arrest of Ex-Prince Andrew Over Epstein Scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>President<strong> Donald Trump<\/strong> expressed his sadness over the arrest of <strong>Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor<\/strong>, the brother of <strong>King Charles III<\/strong>, during a Q&amp;A with reporters on Air Force One on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tag\/prince-andrew\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Mountbatten-Windsor;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Mountbatten-Windsor<\/a>, who was stripped of his royal title last year, was <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/live\/c70kjr9wjw0t\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:arrested;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">arrested<\/a> on Thursday, reportedly over alleged misconduct stemming from his time serving as the U.K.\u2019s special representative for trade and investment.<\/p>\n<p>Emails published by the American Department of Justice in compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act appeared to show the former prince forwarding sensitive UK trade visit reports to <strong>Jeffrey Epstein<\/strong>, the deceased sex criminal with whom Mountbatten-Windsor maintained a friendship.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Fox News\u2019<strong> Peter Doocy <\/strong>made note of Mountbatten-Windsor\u2019s arrest and asked Trump, \u201cDo you think people in this country, at some point, associates of Jeffrey Epstein, will wind up in handcuffs, too?\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Well, you know I\u2019m the expert in a way because I\u2019ve been totally exonerated. That\u2019s very nice. I can actually speak about it very nicely. I think it\u2019s a shame. I think it\u2019s very sad. I think it\u2019s so bad for the royal family. It\u2019s a very, very sad-, to me, it\u2019s a very sad thing. When I see that, it\u2019s a very sad thing to see it, and to see what\u2019s going on with his brother, who\u2019s obviously coming to our country very soon. And he\u2019s a fantastic man, the king. So I think it\u2019s a very sad thing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It\u2019s really interesting because nobody used to speak about Epstein when he was alive, but now they speak. But I\u2019m the one that can talk about it because I\u2019ve been totally exonerated. I did nothing. In fact, the opposite, He was against me. He was fighting me in the election, which I just found out through the last 3 million pages of documents.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Watch above via C-SPAN.<\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump expressed his sadness over the arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the brother of King Charles III, during a Q&amp;A with reporters on Air Force One on Thursday. Mountbatten-Windsor, who was stripped of his royal title last year, was arrested on Thursday, reportedly over alleged misconduct stemming from his time serving as the U.K.\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2289936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[443712,403835,22389,396832,22942,183049,403810,443711,443713],"class_list":["post-2289935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-american-department-of-justice","tag-andrew-mountbatten-windsor","tag-donald-trump","tag-epstein-scandal","tag-jeffrey-epstein","tag-king-charles-iii","tag-mountbatten-windsor","tag-peter-doocy","tag-special-representative"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Trump-Laments-Arrest-of-Ex-Prince-Andrew-Over-Epstein-Scandal.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2289935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2289937,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289935\/revisions\/2289937"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2289936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2289935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2289935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2289935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}