Ehud Barak defends relationship with Jeffrey Epstein despite pedophile conviction

What was said

"I am not an expert on the rules and norms in America but from what have I seen the kind of people that were meeting in his place and meeting with him very regularly. I was only four or five times a year in America and the people I met there left for me no doubt that the American American society even the upper kind of privileged layers of it stratas of it understood that he made certain certain crime. He served some time in an open prison. He paid his duty. whatever to society and the American society as a matter of fact kept treating him in what seems to be the same way."

When confronted about his continued friendship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak defended the relationship by claiming American elite society had accepted Epstein after his conviction. Barak admitted meeting Epstein multiple times and visiting his properties but said he never witnessed improper behavior. He denied ever meeting Virginia Giuffre and said she could not have met him based on timelines.