Despite the sheer number of photographs that exist of Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump together at numerous events over the past decades, during the 2016 presidential election, Alan Garten, an attorney for the Trump Organization, clarified to Fox News, “They were not friends and they did not socialize together.” The controversial politician himself confirmed, following his July 2019 arrest, that he only knew Epstein, “like everybody in Palm Beach knew him.”
But Trump denied any kind of close relationship. “I had a falling out with him,” he asserted while addressing reporters in the Oval Office. “I haven’t spoken to him in 15 years. I was not a fan of his, that I can tell you,” (via The New York Times). This seems counter to, among other things, the recently unredacted testimony from the 2015 defamation trial of Ghislaine Maxwell. Trump’s name also came up during Maxwell’s 2021 sexual abuse trial.
An unnamed woman who took the stand claimed that Epstein had introduced her to Trump while at Mar-a-Lago when she was 14. The woman didn’t accuse Trump of any untoward behavior, but it does seem to show that the two men were close, at least to some degree, for a while. No word, as of yet, from Trump or his team regarding the release of the 2015 court documents. Other high-profile names include Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Prince Andrew.
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