Jeffrey Epstein’s sex scandal came back to haunt Donald Trump this week amid the crisis facing the United States and the current president’s declining popularity. This time it includes new documents linking him to a controversial case.
Jeffrey Epstein case
- Jeffrey Epstein is accused of sexually abusing underage girls through his sex trafficking network during the 1990s and 2000s.
- The investigation into the former investors began in mid-2005. He was arrested in 2008 after pleading guilty to several charges and was guaranteed a lighter sentence. Epstein was released in July 2009.
- Mr. Epstein was thrust back into the spotlight in 2019 when a federal investigation led to new arrests.
- In August of that year, less than three weeks after his re-arrest, Epstein was found dead in a Manhattan jail. After investigation, it was determined that the billionaire had committed suicide.
These emails were sent by a former financier accused of running a child sex exploitation network in the early 2000s. These files are part of a batch of 20,000 pages related to this subject released by Democratic members of the U.S. House Oversight Committee.
In one, sent to author Michael Wolff in 2019, Epstein said the current US president “knew about the girls.”
“While Mr. Trump has stated that he asked me to resign, I was never a member (of Mr. Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club). Of course he knew about the girls. “I asked Ghislaine (my former partner) to stop,” Mr. Epstein said in a letter to Mr. Wolf.
In a 2011 email exchange with his then-partner, Ghislaine Maxwell, who was later convicted of aiding and abetting a crime, Epstein claimed that Trump “spent hours” with one of his victims at his home.
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Trump and Epstein relationship
Although the case was never formally investigated, the relationship between Mr. Trump and Mr. Epstein became a point of turmoil during the Republican Party’s second presidential term.
Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, the two maintained a close friendship and were seen attending several parties attended by American high circles.
The current US president denies having knowledge of the crimes committed by Epstein. But Trump’s name already appears in several files related to the investigation.
In one of the cases, President Trump appears in a flight log linked to a former investor. A Wall Street Journal report revealed a painting the Republican had painted for Epstein that featured the silhouette of a naked woman.
During last year’s campaign, Mr. Trump promised to release new documents about the scandal, including a list of people allegedly involved in the sex trafficking scheme. Some of them were published in February, but they did not bring any big news about the case.
That’s why Democratic lawmakers are pressuring the Justice Department to release all files related to the Jeffrey Epstein case by U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi.
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The photo was taken in 1997. Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump attended an event held at the Mar-a-Lago Club Resort
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President Trump praises Epstein in book dedication: ‘You are the greatest’
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President Trump attacks Democrats
After the emails were released, Donald Trump accused Democratic lawmakers of using the incident to “distract attention” from the government shutdown the United States is facing.
“Democrats are trying to revive the Jeffrey Epstein hoax because they will do anything to distract from how bad the results have been with the government shutdown and many other issues,” the US leader wrote.
North American leaders were referring to the federal government shutdown after Democratic lawmakers blocked a budget bill in the Senate. This directly affected federal services due to lack of resources, and services were blocked until the situation was resolved.
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