India, Feb. 17 -- US President Donald Trump has once again denied any links to financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Amid the uproar caused with the release of the Epstein Files, the US president told reporters that he has "nothing to hide".

'I have nothing to hide. I've been exonerated. I have nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein. They went in hoping that they'd find it and found just the opposite. I've been totally exonerated," Trump told reporters on Air Force One.

The US president further accused Epstein of working against him in the 2016 elections.

"In fact, Jeffrey Epstein was fighting that I don't get elected with some author," he added.

Following the release of the Epstein Files, Trump, whose name has repeatedly shown up i...