Jeffrey Epstein’s ghost aims to continue to haunt Donald Trump’s second term as president. Details of their relationship continue to emerge in a series of revelations following the publication this week of a vast collection of documents from the hapless sex offender. … And next week, the issue will come back into focus. The House is scheduled to vote on requiring the Justice Department to declassify all documents related to Epstein. The latter is opposed by President Trump, and would open a rift with a faction of the Republican Party.
The latest major document disclosure was made Wednesday by the Republican-led House Oversight Committee. The incident came in response to the committee’s release of three emails from Epstein containing damaging information about Trump. In the latter case, Epstein claimed in a private letter that the current president “knew all about the girls” or “spent hours” with one of his victims in connection with his misdeeds, including the trafficking and sexual abuse of minors.
But the remaining 23,000 pages include many more that were later published. For example, new findings showed that Trump knew what Epstein was doing, but that Epstein did not participate in it. “Mr. Trump knew this and came to my house many times during that time,” the investor wrote in an email in February 2019, before he was indicted and arrested. He was put in a cell where he committed suicide. in the summer of that year. But she added: “He never gave her a massage,” referring to the practice of fabricating abuse of young girls.
President Trump has repeatedly denied involvement in or knowledge of these raids. The currently known Epstein documents, as well as others known so far, raise questions about at least the second.
“Mr. Trump knew this and came to my house many times, but never once gave me a massage,” the investor wrote in an email before he was charged.
In July 2019, when Epstein was ousted, President Trump said he had “no knowledge” of his crimes. “I haven’t talked to him in years.” The first one is still suspicious. The second seems true. Trump and Epstein were friends in the 1990s and early 2000s, both successful New Yorkers with homes in Manhattan and Palm Beach, and shared similar interests. “He’s someone you’ll enjoy spending time with.”Trump said of Epstein in a 2002 interview: “It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are younger.” Footage and photographs of the two of them surrounded by young women remain.
Trump and Epstein, 1995 image
farewell of friendship
The friendship broke down in the mid-2000s. Trump said this was because Epstein “stole” employees from his Mar-a-Lago mansion in Florida. Some versions suggest that the cause of their breakup was a dispute over real estate that the couple coveted.
Trump stopped talking to Epstein, but Epstein never stopped talking about Trump. This can be seen in the newly uncovered documents, in which the investor repeatedly mentions his former friend. Above all, this was due to two circumstances: Trump’s awareness of his overreach, and the fact that his political rise began in 2015, when he launched his winning presidential campaign in 2016.
Mr. Epstein has made it clear that his friendship with Mr. Trump, who was in the midst of sexual abuse, could be beneficial to him. “I know what a dirty person Donald is,” he said in an August 2018 conversation with President Barack Obama’s White House Counsel Kathryn Remler. “I might be able to defeat him.”He said in another communication in December 2018 that he already felt investigators were closing in on him amid the accusations in the press.
No evidence implicates the president so far, but documents cast doubt on his views
In December 2015, as Trump was rising in the Republican primary, he provided a New York Times photographer with a photo of him “in the kitchen with girls in bikinis.” Shortly after, when Epstein was about to be the subject of a damaging book, a contact, journalist Michael Wolff, suggested that his past with Trump might help “change the narrative.”
In many communications, friends and contacts ask him to release information harmful to Trump, which Epstein only threatens to do. But he expanded on his insults toward the current president, calling him a “lelo” and “demented” and questioning the president’s fate.
The Epstein melodrama will be lengthened by revelations that have yet to be discovered and are being boldly investigated by the American media. And next week, Congress will vote, with several Republicans likely to signal support for the same thing Trump promised during his campaign and now opposes. Maximum transparency for Epstein.
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