During his first presidential campaign, donald trump He summed up the loyalty of his base with a very powerful image. “I could shoot someone in the middle of Fifth Avenue and they would still vote for me.” He was right. Since then, Trump has incited a coup attempt, been convicted of sexual abuse, indicted for financial fraud, and is under investigation for leaking secrets by storing classified documents in his Mar-a-Lago mansion.
Despite all this, the New York billionaire was not prevented from receiving more than 77 million votes in the November 2024 election last year, the highest ever achieved by a Republican candidate. The question now is whether he can emerge unscathed from his increasingly tested relationship. Jeffrey Epstein and alleged participation in a “party” in which a businessman prostituted minors to please his famous friends.
On Wednesday, Democrats took advantage of Mr. Epstein’s personal documents being delivered to the committee investigating the case in Congress to leak several emails to the press suggesting that Mr. Trump was fully aware of what was going on on his island. And he hinted that he may have been with one of the girls, whom Republicans identified as one of the girls, even though her name was crossed out in the document. virginia roberts giuffre.
Giuffre, who committed suicide last April after years of media and legal battles against Epstein and his cronies, decided to break his silence in 2015 and was one of the victims who managed to put the pedophile behind bars and die a very bizarre death. prince andrewrecently removed from the British royal family by his brother carlos. Additionally, he worked for years at Trump’s official residence at Mar-a-Lago, where his father also worked.
Republican reaction
In fact, the Republican response to trying to save the president was: Giuffre already said at the 2015 trial that she “doesn’t believe” Trump had anything to do with Epstein’s promiscuity. As a participant, as an observer, and even as an expert. If Giuffre is indeed the victim mentioned in the documents leaked by Democrats, her sworn testimony is far more valuable than Epstein’s personal communications.
Separately, the White House accused Democrats of spreading a “false narrative” by extracting emails out of context just to implicate the president. So within hours, Republicans decided to release up to 20,000 documents related to the case, some of which had few references to Trump or were based on personal impressions rather than hard evidence.
Republicans highlighted conversations between Mr. Epstein and his lawyer in which Mr. Epstein encouraged Mr. Trump to get involved in the matter. “It will distract people, and the press will treat you better by taking an anti-Trump position,” his legal representative told him at one point. For Republicans, this is evidence that all subsequent communications are designed for that very purpose, but the fact is that Mr. Epstein never publicly engaged with the president, neither when he was convicted by a Florida jury in 2008 nor when he was arrested and imprisoned in 2019.
Friendship for decades
But Epstein and Trump’s friendship is already very public, and there are images and documents to prove it. An anonymous woman previously sued both men in 2016, but withdrew her complaint and press conference after claiming she had received threats days before an election pitting the billionaire against each other. Hillary Clinton. President Trump initially denied any connection, but changed his strategy when it became too obvious.
According to him and the White House press secretary, caroline leavittit would have been Trump himself who broke the friendship by not trusting Epstein. There is no data to support this statement. A video of the two at a party in the 90s has been released. wall street journal He recovered a congratulatory note the president wrote to Epstein on his 50th birthday in 2003, when Epstein’s underage prostitution “business” was at its peak.
Is it possible that President Trump didn’t know that one of his great friends with whom he said he “shared secrets” was a criminal? Perhaps, but that seems unlikely. Another is that he participated in the aforementioned crimes, but Democrats insist on the fact that he has already been convicted of sexual assault against a writer. E. Jean CarrollIn other words, violence against women is not new to them.
What would MAGA think of this?
In any case, the question is whether his supporters will tolerate this as well. It’s tempting to think so, but the “Epstein dossier” is one of the things that the alt-right and the MAGA movement always refer to when criticizing Hollywood, and progressives in general. From time to time, lists come to light with the names of actors, directors, and politicians (usually Democrats) who would have flown to the island.
It’s unclear how Trump has so far avoided the relationship. Even if Epstein’s circle of friends is said to have been limited to the Democratic side, it’s important to remember that Donald Trump clearly saw himself that way in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Perhaps conservative voters will eventually run out of patience and think it’s OK to kill someone in the middle of New York…but a trip to an island of forbidden pleasure with a pedophile is already too much.
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