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Newly published images of Jeffrey Epstein’s statement show him being questioned about his relationship with President Donald Trump, while the prolonged association of the president with the sentenced sexual offender faces a new scrutiny after a report from the Wall Street Journal last week that revealed that Trump’s name and firm appeared in a birthday card with sexual insinuations delivered to Epstein on his 50 2003.
Chronology
1980s
Trump and Epstein met around 1985, when Trump bought Mar-a-Lago and Epstein also lived in Palm Beach. In 2002, Trump told New York Magazine that he knew Epstein for “15 years”, he described him as a “great guy” and added: “It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as me, and many of them are quite young.”
1992
Trump and Epstein were seen laughing together at a party organized by Trump in Mar-A-Lago, according to NBC images discovered in 2019.
1992
At a theme party of “calendar girls” in Mar-a-Lago, which Trump invited only two more people: businessman George Houraney and Epstein, the then Houraney girlfriend, Jill Hareth, declared that Trump kissed her and groped without her consent, retained her in a room and even got into the bed with another 22-year-old woman. Harth filed a lawsuit in 1997 that Trump resolved extrajudicially (he has denied accusations), according to The New York Times.
1993
Trump flew in the private Jets of Epstein four times, according to flight records during Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial, he reported The New York Times.
1993
Photos published by CNN showed Epstein attending Trump’s wedding with Marla Maples – his second wife – in New York Hotel Plaza. Months before, another image showed both together at the inauguration of Harley Davidson Café in the city.
1994
According to flight records, Trump flew again in one of Epstein’s private jets.
1995
According to The New York TimesMaria Farmer – who has accused Epstein and Maxwell of sexual abuse – told the FBI that Epstein called her to her office in New York, where Trump appeared, “he approached him too much” and “he stared at his bare legs” before Epstein said: “No.
1995
Trump took another flight in an Epstein Jet, according to flight records.
1997
Trump made a seventh flight on one of Epstein’s jets.
1997
Trump and Epstein were photographed together at a Victoria’s Secret party, according to an image of Getty in which Trump appears with the Ingrid Seynhaeve and Epstein model in the background.
1999
A video broadcast by CNN showed Trump and Epstein laughing and talking at another Victoria’s Secret event.
2000
Virginia Giuffre, victim of Epstein, worked in Mar-A-Lago when she was recruited by Maxwell to be Epstein’s personal masseuse. According to a statement made public in 2019, Giuffre was manipulated to provide sexual services to Epstein and his circle of powerful.
2003
According to The Wall Street JournalTrump allegedly gave Epstein a birthday card that said: “Let it be another wonderful secret every day.” The president denies having signed it.
2004
Trump and Epstein broke their relationship when Trump won an auction for a mansion in Palm Beach, according to The Washington Post.
2010
A video resurfaced and published by the Progressive Media Meidotouch showed Epstein confirming that he socialized with Trump and refusing to answer if he did it “in the presence of women under 18 years.”
2015
Trump’s name appeared in the “black notebook” of Epstein, which contained 1,571 personal contacts on 97 pages, including powerful figures such as Prince Andrés and Ehud Barak, whose names were also marked, according to a copy published by Gawker In 2015.
Cita Crucial
“I knew him as everyone in Palm Beach knew him,” Trump told reporters from the Oval office in 2019 when Epstein was arrested. “He wasn’t his fan, I can tell them.”
What supposedly said Trump’s birthday message for Epstein?
Trump wrote to Epstein a typed letter that also included a drawing of a naked woman and referred to a “wonderful secret” between the two for Epstein’s 50th birthday in 2003, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal on Thursday, which indicated that he reviewed the note. The report is published while Trump has faced criticism of its base in the last two weeks, after the Department of Justice announced that it will not reveal more information about its research on Epstein, despite previous suggestions of high officials that they would do. The text of the note supposedly says: Tk
Lee: Trump was informed in May that his name appeared in Epstein’s archives
Main critics
Trump’s allies defended him after the report of the Wall Street Journalsome arguing that the alleged text does not sound like something he would write, and others claiming that history was a coordinated attack by the Democrats
Additional data
Trump ordered the attorney general PAM Bondi to disseminate “relevant” records of the testimony before the Grand Jury in the Epstein case, in response to criticism for the management of the investigation by the Department of Justice.
Key context
Jeffrey Epstein died for suicide in 2019 in a Manhattan prison while waiting for federal positions of sexual trafficking for minors for his wealthy friends and associates. Trump is part of a long list of public figures linked to Epstein, such as Magnate Les Wexner, Prince Andrés and former President Bill Clinton. Over the years, several Trump allies within the Maga Movement have promoted conspiracy theories, including that Epstein was killed and maintained a list of influential customers. The Department of Justice reiterated last week that there is no such list and that Epstein committed suicide.
This article was originally published by Forbes Us
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