Bombshell New Report Casts More
Doubt on Trump’s Epstein Claims
In 2019, Jeffrey
Epstein referred to Donald Trump as his “closest friend for 10 years.”
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A bus stop in
London displays a photo of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein.
The
timeline of Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump’s friendship is not adding up.
Despite
Trump’s doing everything within his power to distance himself from the
pedophilic financier, interviews conducted prior to Epstein’s death suggest
that the pair were close long after Trump claimed to have thrown Epstein out of
Mar-a-Lago for being a “creep.” A new timeline compiled by
CNN reveals just how long the two men were entwined.
Their
friendship spanned three decades, but in a 2019 interview, Epstein described
Trump as his “closest friend for 10 years.” That would have been 15 years after
they had a falling out over a
bidding war on a Palm Springs oceanfront mansion, and 11 years after Epstein
was first convicted on child sex offenses.
Three
other individuals who knew the men have also described them as best buds. They
include Maria Farmer, a visual artist hired by Epstein who provided the first
criminal complaint of sex abuse to law enforcement; Stacey Williams, a model
who referred to Trump as Epstein’s “wing man” after the Manhattan real estate
mogul allegedly groped her; and Jack O’Donnell, the former president and chief
operating officer of Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City, who recalled scolding Trump in
the late 1980s after he arrived at the gambling floor with Epstein and three
underage girls.
Trump
has never been accused of wrongdoing by law enforcement with regard to the
Epstein case, and has insisted that he had “no idea” that Epstein was
abusing underage girls.
The
White House claimed on July 23 that Trump and Epstein’s relationship ended
after Trump kicked Epstein out of his Palm Springs resort for “being a creep.”
But days later, Trump offered a different version of events to a crowd of
reporters aboard Air Force One, revealing that he knew Epstein “stole” girls in
his employ at Mar-a-Lago, and that Virginia Giuffre—one of Epstein’s most
prominent accusers—was among them.
His
remarks partially corroborated Giuffre’s account of being abducted in 2000 by
Epstein’s longtime associate and girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, at Mar-a-Lago,
where Giuffre worked at the time as a pool attendant.
