Reports said U.S. President Donald Trump pointed and told a female reporter who asked whether to release documents on the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, "Quiet, piggy," while jabbing a finger.
According to media outlets in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom on the 19th, President Trump held a Q&A with the press aboard Air Force One on the 14th local time.
When Bloomberg reporter Catherine Lucey tried to ask about the Epstein case documents that day, President Trump pointed a finger at the reporter and said, "Quiet, piggy." The scene was also captured in the White House's official YouTube video.
President Trump has shown a fierce reaction to Lucey before. On the 16th, while speaking with reporters outside Air Force One, when Lucey asked about interviews with former Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson and far-right activist Nick Fuentes, Trump said, "You are the worst! You're Bloomberg, right? I don't understand why they hired you."
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill on the 18th local time compelling the Department of Justice to release documents related to the Epstein case. In a floor vote of the 435-member House, the bill passed 427-1. Even among Republicans, it amounted to near-unanimous support.