The Trumpstein Files — Redux
The Prosecution We Might Never See
You read "I Dub Thee Trumpstein," and you saw the tip of the iceberg. But the truth is, we only scratched the surface. In that first dispatch, I held back, attempting to cleave to what I believed was "best established," trying to play by rules that—let's be honest — no longer exist. That was a mistake. A strategic error. Because when the stakes are this high, when the fight is this brutal, we cannot afford to hold back a single, solitary piece of the puzzle.
This is the extended cut. The uncensored version. An unflinching, relentless dive into every damning detail surrounding Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein, and the swirling vortex of allegations that continues to plague a White House desperate to bury the truth.
Make no mistake: every single piece of information laid bare in the following pages is sourced. It’s all here, meticulously collected. But here’s the critical difference from our first pass: I'm not going to tell you what's "well-established" or what you should "trust." That’s their game — controlling the narrative, spoon-feeding you their version of reality. Not ours. You are not a passive observer. You are the jury.
The level of proximity to the Trump ↔ Epstein connection does vary. The number of sources does vary. But that doesn’t mean any of it is less real, less relevant, or less crucial to understanding the rot at the core. It means you decide. You connect the dots. You weigh the evidence. You discern the patterns. Because the truth isn't something to be filtered for your convenience; it's a weapon you wield, and it’s time you had the full arsenal.
They want you to move on. They want you to forget. They want you to believe there’s "nothing to see here." We're about to show you everything. And it's on you to spread the truth. Get ready to fight.
“I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy, He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it — Jeffrey enjoys his social life.”
— Donald Trump, New York Magazine, 20021
I have one ask of you as we move forward: Every time we finish a paragraph, I want you to replay the quote above in your mind. Every. Damn. Time.
The Quiet Rise, the Loud Rot
Long before the wreckage spilled into public view, Jeffrey Epstein was quietly inserting himself into the bloodstream of American power. He didn’t have a degree; he didn’t need one. In 1974, he was hired to teach math and physics at the elite Dalton School — thanks to a decision made under the leadership of headmaster Donald Barr, father of future Attorney General William Barr2. From there, he charmed his way into the world of high finance and launched J. Epstein & Co., a firm supposedly so selective it only served billionaires. Somehow, it worked. And through one of those billionaires — Leslie Wexner — Epstein acquired everything: money, homes, private jets, power of attorney¹.
No one asked too many questions. That was the point.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump was building a different kind of empire — louder, flashier, built not on trust but spectacle. He wasn’t respected. He was seen. A name slapped on buildings, plastered across tabloids, whispered through Page Six gossip.
But behind the flash was a man already leaving bruises. His wife Ivana told her lawyers he’d yanked out her hair and forced himself on her in a fit of rage. She used the word: rape. Years later, she softened it — said it wasn’t criminal3.
But read the description. Then decide for yourself.
What mattered wasn’t just the act. It was what came next. The NDA. The silence. The strategy. Even in the '90s, Trump already knew the golden rule of power: make sure the people you hurt take your secrets to the grave².
And she did.
When Ivana died in 2022, Trump buried her off the first tee of his golf course. Not in a family plot. Not in a mausoleum. Just a bare patch of land swallowed by weeds. No dignity. No tribute. Just a corpse and a tax shelter4.
Because in New Jersey, land used for human burial can be exempt from property tax, income tax, even business tax5.
He didn’t build her a shrine. He filed a deduction.
That’s the man we’re dealing with. That’s the soil this tree grows from. Everything that follows—every party, every flight log, every lawsuit—sprouts from the same rotted root.
The predator who charmed billionaires.
The predator who played one on TV.
And the system that fed them both.
A System of Selection
Power gravitates toward beauty. In the early 1990s, the fashion industry became a favored gateway for the rich and connected — and for men like Donald Trump, it wasn’t just about sponsorships. It was about access.
At the center of this world stood John Casablancas, founder of Elite Model Management. His agency brought in young models from around the globe. Some were barely in their teens. Trump didn’t just know Casablancas — he partnered with him. In 1991, Trump sponsored Elite’s Look of the Year competition, providing support and visibility for Casablancas’s empire while aligning his brand with the gateway to thousands of aspiring girls. The two men were seen attending private dinners with young girls, the kind 16-year-old model Shayna Love would later describe as something “expected” of young models.6
According to reporting, one 15-year-old girl was sent by Casablancas to Epstein’s Manhattan residence for what was described as a “casting.” She later said the encounter turned abusive.⁵ These were not isolated tales. They formed the latticework of a system — one that offered glamour on the surface, and something far darker beneath.
At Casablanca’s 1991 Look of the Year event, Trump served as one of ten judges. Dozens of girls, some reportedly as young as 14, were flown in to be evaluated by a panel of older men. A resurfaced video shows Trump gesturing and repositioning contestants on camera — all while discussing their bodies and appearance.7
Trump was all over that teen pageant. Not only was he a judge, but he also hosted the award ceremony for the 1991 Look of the Year:
Trump felt very comfortable around Casablancas. So much so that he even brought Ivanka, 9 at the time, for the 1991 Look of the Year Final.
You’d think Trump would keep his daughter away from a guy like Casablancas, a known pedophile who had a public affair with a child8 — Stephanie Seymour, then 16 — back in 1983. Less than 2 years after the picture above was taken, he would be leaving his wife for a 17-year-old whom he had “met as a schoolgirl entrant in an Elite contest in Rio de Janeiro.”9
But maybe he was just too busy hanging out in the nightclubs of Manhattan…
It was there, amid the din and velvet, that Kristin Anderson says she found herself seated beside a man she didn’t recognize — until “his fingers slid under her miniskirt, moved up her inner thigh, and touched her vagina through her underwear.”10 She says she jumped, looked up, and realized it was Donald Trump. She fled. She never saw him again. But his presence lingered.
There was no conversation. No lead-up. “It was like just to prove that he could do it, and nothing would happen,” she later recalled. Sounds a lot like the so called “locker room talk” from the Access Hollywood tape.11
Then, the year after the 1991 Look of the Year contest, Trump can be heard making an odd comment towards a child going up an escalator. Trump is heard saying “I’m going to be dating her in 10 years, can you believe it?” — after clearly asking the small child “Are you going up the escalator?” to which the extremely young voice replies: “Yeah.”12
In the same year Trump hosted a party at Mar-a-Lago. The NBC footage shows him pointing toward women on the dance floor, whispering into Jeffrey Epstein’s ear, and triggering laughter that left Epstein bent over in amusement.13
The 1992 party wasn’t a one-off. It was a preview.
In the modeling circuit, business blended with access. George Houraney and Jill Harth, organizers of the American Dream calendar girl competition, approached Trump about hosting their event at one of his casinos. He agreed — and sweetened the deal by offering to throw a party at Mar-a-Lago, promising to invite top modeling agents and VIP sponsors. Houraney flew in a group of finalists — the contestants ages ranging from 16 to 22—dressing them for the occasion with a $30,000 budget provided by Trump. But when the girls arrived, there were no VIPs. No agencies. Just one other guest: Jeffrey Epstein.514
Houraney was stunned. He later recalled asking, “Donald, where are the guys? What’s going on here?” Trump replied: “Well, this is it.”
It wasn’t a business opportunity. It was a setup.
Not long after, Harth filed a lawsuit accusing Trump of sexually assaulting her on the night of the party. She says that a 22-year-old contestant told her, that on the same night, Trump “crawled into her bed uninvited.” Harth’s case was later dropped as part of a broader, confidential settlement involving a separate business dispute filed by Houraney.¹³, ⁵
Harth could no longer speak freely. Another silence… contractually secured.
But not all were bound.
Stacey Williams, a top swimsuit model in the 1990s, said she initially believed she was visiting Trump Tower for a professional opportunity. But after arriving with Jeffrey Epstein — whom she was casually dating — she alleged that Donald Trump greeted her by groping her breasts, waist, and buttocks, all while continuing a casual conversation with Epstein. The two men, she said, “were smiling at one another” as it happened, as if playing out “some sort of sick bet … or twisted game.” Williams said she was left humiliated and shaken, especially after Epstein later scolded her for “letting” it happen.
🎥 Watch: Williams recounts the incident and her reaction in her own words.
She provided contemporaneous details to friends, passed a polygraph examination, and produced a postcard sent by Trump inviting her to Mar-a-Lago: “Stacey — Your home away from home. Love, Donald”.1516
By the end of ’93, Trump was already stacking up the body count — of allegations, NDAs, and disturbing associations.
Ivana: “Rape.” Then an NDA. Now buried in an unmarked grave for a tax break.
Casablancas: Known pedophile when Trump partnered with him. Still good enough to bring his daughter around. Trump judged teenagers at his pageants — then built his own.
Epstein: No words needed. By ’92, already co-hosting “VIP” parties with Trump at Mar-a-Lago — just the two of them, surrounded by “young” women.
Kristin Anderson: The first documented case of Trump “grabbing them by the pussy.”
Jill Harth: Another incident. Another NDA.
Stacey Williams: The first known case of Trump and Epstein “sharing” someone. A chilling account — backed by testimony and a polygraph.
And we’re just getting started.
From Participant to Apex Predator
In the beginning, the late 80s and early 90s, Trump was a hanger-on. He orbited the world of elite modeling through men like John Casablancas, showing up to judge contests, sponsor events, and schmooze backstage.
But by the mid-1990s, the orbit collapsed — and Trump took center stage. He stopped attending someone else’s events. He started creating his own. He bought the brands. He controlled the venues. He positioned himself not on the sidelines, but at the center of it all — with access not just granted, but guaranteed. He installed himself at the top of the food chain: judge, owner, host, backstage pass holder.
And with that power came a shift. The stories began to change. The lines he seemed to cross grew darker — and far more disturbing.
Trump wasn’t just a participant anymore. He was an apex predator.
The Katie Johnson/Jane Doe Allegation
In 1994, Donald Trump is alleged to have committed one of the most brutal acts ever described in a legal complaint bearing his name.
According to sworn filings later submitted in federal court, Trump — then 48 — attended a series of parties at Jeffrey Epstein’s Manhattan residence. There, a 13-year-old girl says she was repeatedly raped by both men17.
She gave her name as Katie Johnson. In the lawsuit, she alleged that she had been lured to Epstein’s home with promises of modeling opportunities and cash. What she encountered instead, she said, was a closed-door environment where underage girls were expected to perform sexual acts for powerful men. She described threats, isolation, and physical violence — including a specific incident in which she claimed Trump struck her and screamed that he could have her family killed if she spoke out¹⁷.
The claims were extreme. And, to many, they seemed out of character — even compared to the deeply disturbing behavior already emerging from Epstein’s orbit and Trump’s own past. The nature of the allegations raised serious questions. But so did the pattern.
Johnson first filed suit in California in April 2016. The case was dismissed — not on the facts, but because the complaint cited an inapplicable statute18. She refiled five months later in New York under the name Jane Doe, this time backed by a witness affidavit and legal support from attorneys who insisted she had a credible case19.
As the court date neared, Johnson’s legal team scheduled a press conference. The suit was gaining traction. Then, without warning, the case was dropped. Johnson’s lawyers cited a wave of death threats and a bomb threat at the law firm20. She no longer felt safe coming forward¹⁹.
We are not here to litigate the case. We are here to document the record — to lay out what was claimed, what was filed, and what was never answered in court. Whether you find the story credible or not, one fact is indisputable:
This lawsuit existed.
It was filed. Twice.
It was dropped after alleged death threats.
And it has never been resolved.
And in case you’re thinking that Trump would not sleep with a 13-year-old, here’s what he had to say to Howard Stern in 2006 about his sexual “age limit”21
A Pattern of Proximity
Donald Trump’s name appears in least six separate entries in Jeffrey Epstein’s private flight logs between October 1993 and January 1997 — according to records introduced during the Maxwell trial22.
Most of these flights were short domestic legs — Palm Beach to New York, occasionally with a stop in Washington, D.C. Trump wasn’t alone: a couple of entries list Marla Maples, Tiffany Trump, and a nanny as passengers. One lists Eric Trump alongside Donald Trump.
Does this matter? Maybe. Maybe not. The flight logs don’t tell us much on their own. Many entries list vague descriptions like “+N pax” or “+2 females,” which — while unsettlingly casual — means the records aren’t precise. Could Trump have been among the + Pax? Maybe, maybe not.
People tend to latch onto the logs, as if they’re a smoking gun. They aren’t. But they do place Trump within the gravitational pull of Epstein’s world — during a time when the rest of Trump’s behavior, access, and associations were accelerating.
We're including some of these log pages here for reference, not revelation. They don’t answer any questions. But they may help you ask better ones.
The Warning They Ignored
Before the headlines. Before the flight logs. Before anyone was “shocked” by the scope of Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes—Maria Farmer was already sounding the alarm23.
It was 1995. She was working the front desk at Epstein’s New York townhouse. In one instance, Epstein called her in for some work. She showed up in running shorts and then, a few minutes later, Donald Trump walked in — suited, silent, staring. She says he hovered over her legs. Watched her. Made her feel like prey. Then Epstein came in and redirected him:
“No, no. She’s not here for you.”
As they left the room, she says she heard Trump say he thought she was sixteen.
Maria Farmer didn’t wait for the #MeToo movement. She didn’t wait for Epstein to be arrested. In 1996, she became the first woman known to report Epstein and Maxwell to law enforcement. And even then — even then — she told them to look into Trump.
Ten years later, in 2006, the FBI came back. She told them again.
Who does that? Who brings up the same man a decade later, if they didn’t mean it? If it wasn’t important? This wasn’t political. This wasn’t reactive. She named Trump because she saw what others refused to see. And they ignored her.
No charges. No investigation. No follow-up. Just another woman written off.
But now you know. She warned them about Epstein a decade before he was first arrested. They didn’t listen.
She also warned them about Donald Trump. Twice.
The Dressing Room
Sometime in late 1995 or early 1996, E. Jean Carroll says she crossed paths with Donald Trump at the Bergdorf Goodman department store in Manhattan. The encounter, she would later claim, started as flirtation, a game of dress-up suggested by Trump himself. But it didn’t stay playful. According to Carroll, it turned violent. She says Trump forced her into a dressing room and raped her.
That story wouldn’t reach the public for decades. But the details never changed.
In 2023, a federal jury found Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation. Though the verdict didn't use the legal term “rape,” the judge in the case later clarified what the jury actually concluded: that Trump forcibly penetrated Carroll — that in plain terms, he raped her2425.
In 2024, another jury added an $83.3 million price tag to Trump’s response — a financial reckoning not just for the act, but for the smear campaign that followed.
And in 2025, the appeals court confirmed it all. The $5 million judgment stood. The rest was on its way26.
Though a court didn’t decide it until nearly 30 years later, by the mid-90s, Trump was already a rapist. A jury of Trump’s peers decided it. A judge clarified what that meant. Keep that in mind when weighing everything that we’ve reviewed so far, and everything that follows — every pattern and every accusation.
The Walk of Shame
In 1996, Lisa Boyne attended a dinner in Manhattan that left her shaken for decades. She had been invited by her friend Sonja Tremont (later Sonja Morgan of Real Housewives), and the table was already full when she arrived: John Casablancas, several young models, and Donald Trump.
What happened next stayed with Boyne for decades.
According to her, Trump and Casablancas sat at either end of a semi-circular booth, deliberately boxing the girls in. If anyone needed to use the restroom, they had to walk across the table itself — something Boyne says Trump insisted on. He used the moment to stare up their skirts. He made comments. On what underwear they were — or weren’t — wearing. On what their bodies looked like. On whether they were worth his time27.
He didn’t touch her. She wasn’t a model, she says. Just another woman forced to watch.
Boyne eventually left the restaurant in disgust. Her memory of the night was so visceral that she says it triggered a flashback two decades later, when she saw other women come forward during the 2016 campaign. That’s when she decided to tell her story. Because nothing about that night, she said, felt like an outlier. It felt like a window.
She described Trump as the most vulgar man she’d ever met — an embodiment of the modeling world’s darkest corners, and the power that let men like him do whatever they wanted. That’s saying a lot, considering sitting next to Trump was Casablancas, whom we met earlier, the known pedophile who cheated on one wife with a 15-year-old and left another for a 17-year-old.
Lord of the Teens
By the fall of 1996, Donald Trump wasn’t just attending modeling events. He owned them. That year, he purchased the Miss Universe Organization — including the Miss USA and Miss Teen USA pageants⁶.
Let that sink in.
Earlier that same year, Donald Trump raped E. Jean Carroll in a department store dressing room. The courts would later agree. Now, this same man was putting himself in charge of teenage beauty queens.
The power wasn’t symbolic. It was real, personal, and invasive. Multiple contestants have since come forward to say Trump walked into their dressing rooms while they were undressing, including underage girls.2829 Some were in various stages of nudity. They didn’t know he was coming. He wasn’t escorted. He just strolled in, because he could.
According to one contestant from Miss Teen USA, the girls were as young as 15. “He just came strolling right in,” she said. “There was no second to put a robe on or any sort of clothing or anything. Some girls were topless. Others girls were naked.”²⁸
One contestant said she reported Trump’s behavior to someone she thought would care: Ivanka. According to the teen, she told Ivanka Trump that her father had walked in on the girls while they were changing. Ivanka’s response? “Yeah, he does that.”²⁹ Not surprise. Not outrage. Just acknowledgment. As if it were normal. As if it were expected.
At least five different teen beauty contestants have now accused him of doing the same.²⁹
And then, in 2005, Trump bragged about it. In his own words, on The Howard Stern Show, he said he had the right to walk in on women while they were changing because he owned the pageant.⁷30
🎥 Watch: Trump boasts about walking in on women during pageants.
At the time, one likely assumed he was talking about adult women. Now? You tell me.
Because you’ve seen the pattern. You’ve seen what came before. And you’re about to see what comes next.
Trump’s pageant empire spanned two decades. We’re not done hearing from the girls he paraded in front of cameras — or the ones he cornered behind them.
A Monster Is Born
By the end of ‘96 Trump was on a completely new level compared to where he was just 3 years earlier:
He went from “grabbing them by the pussy” with Kristin Anderson to raping them with E. Jean Carroll and potentially Katie Johnson/Jane Doe, who was 13 at the time.
He went from sponsoring and judging at a known pedophile’s (Casablancas) teen pageant, to owning his own, the Miss Teen USA — along with the Miss Universe and Miss USA — which several contestants including Victoria Hughes (former Miss New Mexico Teen USA) and Mariah Billado (former Miss Vermont Teen USA), alleged he used his power as the owner to walk in on them while they were naked or changing, with his own daughter, Ivanka, purportedly replying: “Yeah, he does that“, when confronted.
Trump’s behavior was so predatory, that even when sitting side by side with Casablancas, a known pedophile, Lisa Boyne quickly identified Trump as the most vulgar man she had ever met. And when Maria Farmer tried to tell the FBI to investigate Epstein, she made sure to tell them they should investigate Trump as well. Twice.
Most of these women never crossed paths with one another. Yet the pattern of behavior they witnessed from Trump implies nothing less than a predator. Trump may not have trafficked any women, but it sure seems that he took every opportunity — whether they came by happenstance or by his active attempts to create them — to prey on his victims.
The Turning Point
The ascent was almost complete. By the end of the 1990s, Trump had everything he ever wanted — the spotlight, the women, the control.
Epstein was still in the shadows, but never far. If nothing else, he was closer than ever — and bolder than ever — to Donald Trump.
For a moment, it looked like the machine might run forever.
But something was shifting.
Because the party doesn’t last forever. Sooner or later your past is bound to catch up to you.
Brunches, Pageants, and Unwanted Kisses
Trump didn’t need a private jet or a backstage pass to cross the line. Sometimes, all it took was brunch.
In 1997, Cathy Heller attended a Mother’s Day brunch at Mar-a-Lago with her family. She didn’t know Donald Trump personally — had never even spoken to him. But as he made his rounds, she says he grabbed her face and went straight for her lips. She turned away, resisting the advance. Trump didn’t say a word. He moved on like nothing happened.31
“He was strong,” Heller recalls. “It just happened instantly.” She described feeling stunned, humiliated — and furious that he did it in front of her mother-in-law.
That same year, Temple Taggart was just 21 when she won Miss Utah USA. As part of the pageant circuit, she met Trump — twice. Each time, she says, he kissed her directly on the mouth without asking. Once backstage. Once again at Trump Tower. She remembers him advising her to lie about her age if she wanted to make it in modeling — to say she was 17 instead of 21. She didn’t understand. She wasn’t a teenager. But maybe that was the point.32
🎥 Watch: Taggart recounts her encounters with Trump and how it made her feel.33
One year later, another woman says Trump did it again — this time, to a stranger. Karena Virginia was waiting for a car service outside the U.S. Open in 1998 when she overheard Trump talking about her to a group of men: “Look at those legs.” Moments later, he walked up, grabbed her arm, and touched her breast. When she recoiled in shock, she says Trump demanded, “Don’t you know who I am?”34
For years, Virginia blamed herself for wearing a short dress and heels. But she never forgot the moment. “Your random moment of sexual pleasure came at my expense,” she later said. “And it affected me greatly.”
The Circle Starts to Crack
In 1998, another name from Trump’s orbit entered the headlines — this time in handcuffs.
David Weil wasn’t a household name, but in the world Trump and John Casablancas operated in, he was a regular. Weil had worked alongside Casablancas at Elite Model Management and had ties to both men through the pageant and fashion circuits. That alone would’ve raised eyebrows.
Then came the charges.
Weil pled guilty to defrauding investors — and to raping a 15-year-old girl he had met at the very same Look of the Year contest Trump helped host and judge in 1992.⁶
It didn’t lead the news. There were no dramatic headlines about Trump’s friend. But the pattern was there — in plain sight. A shared circle. A shared stage. A shared silence. Casablancas. Weil. Epstein. Trump. It reminds me of an old quote I once heard:
“Tell me the company you keep, and I’ll know exactly who you are without a single word about yourself.”
Enter Melania — and Epstein’s Plane
It was 1998 when Trump first met Melania Knauss, the woman who would become his third wife and, eventually, First Lady of the United States.
But their relationship, like so much else in Trump’s world, came with baggage — and with Epstein.
According to audio tapes released by journalist Michael Wolff, Jeffrey Epstein claimed that the first time Trump and Melania had sex, it was aboard his infamous private jet: the Lolita Express.35
Epstein called himself Trump’s “closest friend” during that era, and said he had intimate knowledge of Trump’s sexual exploits — including this one. The boast was crude. The detail, damning. And if true, it would mean Trump began his relationship with the future First Lady in the sky — on the same plane that ferried Epstein’s victims.
They weren’t hiding. Trump and Epstein partied together in public — and so did their partners. In the year 2000, Donald Trump and Melania Knauss were photographed standing side-by-side with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell at Mar-a-Lago, smiling like any other power couple out in town.¹⁴
Their social lives had merged. Their worlds were now fully entwined.
Trump’s Club Was Their Playground — and Their Pipeline
Speaking of 2000 — that was Virginia Giuffre’s final year working at Mar-a-Lago. She wasn’t a guest. She was a teenage locker room attendant, reading a book on massage therapy to pass the time. That’s when Ghislaine Maxwell spotted her.
According to court documents, Maxwell struck up a conversation, then offered Giuffre a lucrative opportunity: a traveling masseuse gig for a wealthy friend. That friend, of course, was Jeffrey Epstein. The job quickly turned into something else — paid massages that often involved sex.36
Giuffre said it all started at Trump’s club. From there, she became one of Epstein’s primary victims, trafficked across his properties in the U.S. Virgin Islands, New Mexico, and New York. Maxwell and Epstein instructed her to have sex with their powerful friends. She named names. Governors. Senators. Royals. Billionaires.
And while Giuffre clarified that Trump never assaulted or flirted with her, the larger point remains: Epstein and Maxwell felt perfectly comfortable recruiting girls from inside Donald Trump’s own house.¹⁴
The Circle Tightens
By the end of 2000, the machine had reached its apex. The money. The pageants. The women. The power. Trump had it all — and so did the people around him.
David Weil’s guilty plea the year before should’ve been a warning shot. A man who once shared the same rooms and runways as Trump and Casablancas, convicted of raping a 15-year-old girl he met at Trump’s teen modeling event. But the world barely blinked.
And Epstein? He wasn’t hiding. He and Ghislaine felt confident enough to recruit girls from inside Trump’s club — comfortable enough to turn Mar-a-Lago into a hunting ground.
Melania by Trump’s side. Giuffre pulled into Epstein’s orbit. A smiling foursome of Trump, Melania, Epstein, and Maxwell caught in photographs, mid-laugh, like nothing could touch them.
It looked unstoppable.
But storms were gathering.
Weil was just the first crack. From here on out, the descent would begin — and there was no going back.
The Fallout and the Cover-Up
By now, the stories were stacking up. So too were the excuses.
Trump has floated multiple reasons for why he supposedly “fell out” with Jeffrey Epstein. Sometimes it was a vague business dispute. Sometimes Epstein was just a “creep.” Sometimes it was both.37 Other times — like in a 2025 statement aboard Air Force One — Trump gave a more specific explanation: Epstein, he said, had started “stealing” young women from the Mar-a-Lago spa — including, he claimed, Virginia Giuffre.38
“People were taken out of the spa, hired by him,” Trump said. “Gone.” He claims he warned Epstein once, then kicked him out after a second incident. When asked specifically about Giuffre, Trump responded: “I think so. I think that was one of the people… and by the way, she had no complaints about us whatsoever.”³⁸
Here’s then President Donald Trump in 2025 “clearing it all up”39:
But if that story is true — if Trump knew Epstein was targeting underage spa attendants at Mar-a-Lago back in 2000 — then we need to talk about everything that happened after that.
Because just two years later, Trump told New York Magazine:
“I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy. He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do — and many of them are on the younger side.”¹
And one year after that, in 2003, Trump sent Epstein a birthday letter so disturbing it reads like a veiled confession, considering that Trump now wants to claim he knew Epstein was “stealing” spa attendants from Mar-a-Lago as early as 2000:
“Voice Over: There must be more to life than having everything,” the note began.
Donald: Yes, there is, but I won’t tell you what it is.
Jeffrey: Nor will I, since I also know what it is.
Donald: We have certain things in common, Jeffrey.
Jeffrey: Yes, we do, come to think of it.
Donald: Enigmas never age, have you noticed that?
Jeffrey: As a matter of fact, it was clear to me the last time I saw you.
Trump: A pal is a wonderful thing. Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret.”
— Donald Trump’s letter to Epstein for his 50th birthday in 200340
The letter is adorned with a pair of small arcs denoting a woman’s breasts and Trump’s squiggly signature “Donald” standing in for pubic hair.
So, let’s ask the obvious:
If Trump believed Epstein was “stealing” underage teenagers from his spa — what exactly did he think Epstein was doing with them?
Was this billionaire financier assembling a teen investment team? Giving them internships in asset management? And if Trump thought they were such prodigies, why didn’t he hire them to manage Mar-a-Lago — instead of sticking them in the spa?
Why did he say nothing publicly at the time? Why did he keep calling Epstein a “terrific guy”? Why send a letter about “enigmas that never age” and “wonderful secrets”?
Are we really supposed to believe that Donald Trump — who had already been in business with multiple known pedophiles like John Casablancas and David Weil, who raped E. Jean Carroll, and who, according to multiple Miss Teen USA contestants, used his power to walk in on them while they were undressed — had no idea what Epstein wanted with those underage girls?
Or is it more likely he knew exactly what was happening — and simply didn’t care? Or worse: that he was friends with Epstein precisely because of their shared interest in “enigmas” that “never age”?
The Friendship May Have Ended. The Behavior Didn’t
Trump may have parted ways with Jeffrey Epstein around 2000 — but if anything, his behavior only got worse.
Between 2000 and 2006 alone, more than half a dozen women have accused Trump of sexual assault, harassment, or inappropriate conduct. Some were contestants in pageants he owned. Some were strangers. Some were colleagues or acquaintances. All tell the same story: abuse of power, unsolicited touching, and a man who thought he could get away with anything.
Tasha Dixon, a former Miss Arizona, said contestants were forced to greet Trump even when they were not fully dressed — a situation that made her feel “like a piece of meat”.41
Mindy McGillivray said Trump groped her at Mar-a-Lago in 2003 during a concert, grabbing her without consent.42
Jennifer Murphy, a former Apprentice contestant, said Trump kissed her on the lips without warning after an interview.43
Rachel Crooks said Trump forcibly kissed her in Trump Tower in 2005 while she was working as a receptionist.44
Natasha Stoynoff, a journalist for People magazine, said Trump forced himself on her at Mar-a-Lago in 2005 — the same year she was there to write about his anniversary with Melania.45
Jessica Drake, an adult film actress, said Trump kissed her and two other women without permission in 2006, then offered her $10,000 and use of his private jet.46
Ninni Laaksonen, Miss Finland 2006, said Trump groped her buttocks just before a taping of Letterman that year. She was 20.47
Cassandra Searles, Miss Washington 2013, alleges Trump treated Miss USA contestants "like cattle" and “grabbed [her] ass” while inviting her to his hotel room.48
Karen Johnson alleges Trump of groped and forcibly kissed her at a New Year’s Eve party at Mar-a-Lago.49
Summer Zervos, a former Apprentice contestant, said Trump groped her and thrust his genitals toward her in 2007 when she asked him for career advice. She had admired him and wanted a job — instead, she said, he treated her “as though [she] was an object to be hit upon.”50
And those are just the ones who came forward. There are others — some with NDAs, some still afraid to speak — but all pointing to the same truth:
Trump didn’t need Epstein to keep preying on women. He just needed an opportunity. And if the man who claimed to "ban" Epstein from Mar-a-Lago ever truly cared about abuse, it didn’t show in his own actions.
The Porn Star and the Cover Up
It was 2006. Melania Trump had just given birth to Barron. She was home with a newborn. Healing. Nursing. Recovering. And Donald? He was at a celebrity golf tournament in Lake Tahoe, doing what he always did — chasing women who didn’t want him.
That’s where he met Stormy Daniels.
She was 27. He was 60. She says they had sex. Unprotected. In his hotel suite. While his wife — who had just given him a son — was hundreds of miles away51.
He didn’t care. Not about Melania. Not about Barron. Not about the timing. Because this wasn’t new. This wasn’t an outlier. This was Donald Trump doing what Donald Trump always does: taking what he wants and assuming he’ll never face consequences.
He didn’t see her as a risk. He saw her as disposable.
And for a while, she was.
Fast forward a decade. Trump is no longer a tabloid punchline. He’s the Republican nominee for President of the United States. And suddenly, that disposable porn star has become a problem.
Because Stormy Daniels was getting ready to talk. And Trump couldn’t let that happen. Not with the election weeks away. Not with the “family values” crowd already holding their nose to vote for him. Not after Access Hollywood.
So, like he always does, he tried to buy silence.
Michael Cohen, his fixer, paid Daniels $130,000 in hush money.⁵⁰ The payment was hidden behind a shell company. The records were falsified. And Trump denied knowing anything about it.
Just like he denied knowing what Epstein did.
Just like he denied knowing the girls in the dressing rooms.
Just like he always denies — until the paperwork proves otherwise.
Because this wasn’t just about sex. It never is. It was about control. It was about suppressing the truth. And most of all — it was about getting away with it.
He didn’t cover up the affair because he cared about Melania. He covered it up because he cared about winning. And for the most part, it worked. He became President. Stormy Daniels got smeared. Cohen went to prison.
But for once — just once — the consequences circled back.
In 2024, Donald Trump was convicted on 34 felony counts for falsifying business records to bury the Daniels story during the 2016 election.52 The verdict didn’t erase the win — but it did mark something else:
The first time Donald Trump got caught.
He’s spent his life dodging accountability. Raping, grabbing, groping, spying, silencing — always certain he could spin the truth into oblivion. But this time, the spin stopped short. The lie unraveled. And the predator finally became a felon.
The affair didn’t destroy his campaign. But it did make history.
And history will remember this: He cheated on his wife while she was home with their newborn son — then broke the law to cover it up.
Not even that was off-limits.
That’s who he is. That’s who he’s always been. And this time, the whole world saw it.
Epstein’s 2008 Plea and the First Cover Up
Jeffrey Epstein was first arrested in 2006 following a Palm Beach Police Department investigation triggered by a complaint from the parents of a 14-year-old girl. The probe uncovered a broader pattern: Epstein had been paying underage girls for massages that escalated into sexual abuse. The FBI soon opened a federal investigation, culminating in a proposed 60-count indictment that could have sent Epstein to prison for life.53
Instead, then-U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta—later appointed Secretary of Labor by Donald Trump—negotiated a deal so lenient it defied explanation. Epstein pled guilty to two low-level state charges, served just 13 months in a county jail under relaxed work-release conditions, and secured immunity for himself and his co-conspirators from federal prosecution. The deal, known as a Non-Prosecution Agreement (NPA), was concealed from Epstein’s victims in violation of federal law, and the victims were actively misled into believing the federal investigation was ongoing⁵³.
A later court ruling found that Acosta’s office had violated the Crime Victims’ Rights Act (CVRA) by failing to inform or consult victims prior to the NPA. The judge found that even the letters sent to victims falsely suggested that Epstein might still face federal prosecution⁵³.
Despite this history, Donald Trump nominated Acosta as Secretary of Labor in 2017. During his confirmation hearing, Acosta was asked only briefly about the Epstein case and was confirmed shortly afterward. Trump stood by Acosta even as the deal came under renewed scrutiny following Epstein’s 2019 arrest. When asked, Trump downplayed the controversy, called Acosta an “excellent Secretary of Labor,” and defended the arrangement as better than what state prosecutors had originally planned.⁵¹5455
This wasn’t just a case of bad judgment — it was a betrayal of justice. And Trump rewarded the man who orchestrated it.
The Pattern That No One Saw
By the time the 2016 election rolled around, the floodgates had opened.
More than two dozen women had come forward with stories of Trump groping, kissing, or assaulting them — many describing eerily similar behavior: unsolicited advances, abuse of power, and the assumption that no one would stop him.
Predictably, Trump called them all liars. He blamed the media. Claimed it was all politically motivated. That these women had suddenly come forward just because he was running for president.
And for the most part, that’s how the media framed it — as part of the chaos of the campaign. A scandal, yes. But also something convenient to dismiss.
But there’s one detail that’s been sitting in plain sight this entire time — and no one’s talked about it.
Not until now.
Because when you line up all the allegations — and we mean all of them — a strange pattern emerges:
Nearly every incident occurred between 1991 and 2007 — a 16-year window that just so happens to align almost perfectly with Trump’s friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.
And then? The allegations stop.
Not because the behavior stopped. But because the spotlight started.
In 2006, the FBI began investigating Epstein. In 2007, the legal pressure escalated. And in 2008, he took the now-infamous sweetheart deal.
But here's the thing: if the allegations against Trump were just political hit jobs… if these women were all just making things up to hurt his campaign… why would their stories all stop in 2007?
Why wouldn’t someone invent a story from 2010? Or 2012? Or 2015?
Why do they cluster and overlap Trump and Epstein’s friendship — and none after his arrest?
Statistically, it makes no sense. Unless they’re telling the truth.
Let's consider the numbers. There are roughly 28 known allegations against Donald Trump. The timeframe for these allegations spans from the mid-1980s, up to his 2016 presidential campaign – a period of about 30 years.
Now, consider the specific period of his documented closeness with Jeffrey Epstein: from around 1991 to 2007, a window of about 16 years.
If these allegations were truly random, or simply fabricated for political gain during the 2016 election, you would expect them to be scattered more evenly across those three decades. Some would fall before 1991, and certainly many more would be invented for the years between 2007 and 2016, a period much closer to the election.
Yet, out of 28 allegations, an astounding 25 of them fall precisely within that 1991-2007 window. Only three fall outside (Jessica Leeds⁴⁵ — who Trump allegedly groped during a flight in the mid 80s — Ivana Trump, 1989, and Cassandra Searles⁴⁸, 2013).
To put this into perspective, if you were to randomly pick 28 points across that 30-year span, the chance of 25 of them just happening to land in that specific 16-year segment is incredibly, almost impossibly, small. The odds are roughly 1 in 17,556 or 0.0057%.
This isn't a coincidence. This isn't random. The extreme unlikelihood of this pattern occurring by chance strongly suggests that there's a real, non-random reason for this concentration. Unless they're telling the truth.
And consider this: Trump now claims he ended his friendship with Epstein in 2000 because Epstein was “stealing girls” from Mar-a-Lago’s spa. But then why did he describe Epstein as a “terrific guy” in 2002? Why did he write him a glowing 50th birthday letter in 2003?
You can’t rewrite the timeline. And you can’t dismiss the pattern.
The truth is, Trump’s predatory behavior fits perfectly into the Epstein era — and it all but disappears when Epstein becomes a liability.
That’s not politics. That’s evidence.
And it’s only the beginning.
Because when Epstein came back into public view in 2019, something else came back with him — the truth.
But this time, they didn’t cover it up with a plea deal.
They covered it up with a body.
Epstein’s Death and the Second Cover Up
By 2019, Jeffrey Epstein had returned to the headlines — this time, in handcuffs.
Federal prosecutors in New York brought new sex trafficking charges against him, citing dozens of underage victims, including fresh allegations involving his Palm Beach residence and others recruited from Mar-a-Lago56. The media erupted. So did scrutiny of those who had enabled him — including Trump’s own Secretary of Labor, Alex Acosta, the very man who had let Epstein off with a sweetheart deal in 2008.
Trump didn’t distance himself. He defended Acosta. He called him a “really great secretary of labor” and said he felt “very badly” for him. He dismissed the criticism as political, even though Acosta had violated federal law by hiding the deal from Epstein’s victims⁵⁵.
Then, one month after his arrest, Epstein was found dead in his jail cell.
And the man assuring us it was just a “perfect storm of screw-ups”57? That was then Attorney General Bill Barr — son of Donald Barr, the headmaster of the elite Dalton School who gave Jeffrey Epstein his first job teaching math and physics to teenage girls, despite having no degree. That job was Epstein’s gateway into high society. Into billionaires. Into victims. The circle was perfectly closed.
For years, that’s all we had — theories and silence. Until 2025.
That’s when the Department of Justice and the FBI released what they called the “full raw” surveillance video from outside Epstein’s cell.
They said it showed everything. That no one entered. That Epstein acted alone.
They were lying.
The metadata proves the video was not raw — it was edited and stitched together in Adobe Premiere Pro.58
2 minutes and 53 seconds were cut from the first clip — a deletion confirmed by forensic experts.59
One of those missing segments? The entire minute of 11:59 PM — the moment just before midnight on the night of Epstein’s death.60
The FBI claimed that this camera angle captured everyone who entered the area. But CBS News revealed the camera didn’t even show the main SHU entrance, and the stairwell to Epstein’s cell was only partially visible, meaning someone could have gone to his cell without being seen at all61.
Let that sink in.
Every major claim made by the government — that the video was raw, that it was continuous, that no one could have reached Epstein — is demonstrably false.
Maybe Epstein did just kill himself. Or maybe someone else killed him or instructed or helped him kill himself. But the only thing this footage proves beyond any doubt is:
We were lied to.
And when Trump was finally asked about it? He exploded.
“Are we still talking about this creep?” he snapped at a reporter. “This guy’s been talked about for years”⁶⁰.
That wasn’t anger at Epstein.
That was fear that the conversation wasn’t over.
The Unkept Promise and Last Cover Up
For years, conspiracy theories have swirled around the so-called “Epstein Files” — a vast collection of evidence seized during multiple federal investigations into Jeffrey Epstein. According to reporting, this trove is believed to contain more than 300 gigabytes of material, including flight logs, surveillance footage, contact books, grand jury transcripts, and thousands of illicit images and videos — many involving minors.62
In the final weeks of his 2024 campaign, Donald Trump gave his base exactly what it wanted: a promise to release the Epstein files. On shows like Lex Fridman and Will Cain, he dangled the prospect of transparency—JFK, MLK, 9/11… and yes, even Epstein. “I’d have no problem with it,” he said when asked about releasing the so-called “client list.” And yet he couldn’t help but flinch: “You don’t want to affect people’s lives… there’s a lot of phony stuff with that whole world,” he added, already planting the seeds of retreat.63 64
JD Vance, now his VP, went even further in October 2024: “Seriously, we need to release the Epstein list. That is an important thing,” he told Theo Von, with a smirk and a knowing laugh.65 It was an applause line across MAGA rallies, Telegram channels, and influencer feeds: Release the list. Drain the swamp. Expose the elite pedophiles.
The Hype Before the Storm
Once Trump was back in power, his administration continued to hype the Epstein Files. Pam Bondi, handpicked by Trump to serve as Attorney General, declared on Fox News when asked “The DOJ may be releasing the list of Jeffrey Epstein’s Clients? Will that really happen?”: “It’s sitting on my desk right now to review. That has been a directive by President Trump.” 66
Alina Habba, Trump’s longtime legal surrogate turned White House counsel, took it even further. In a televised interview with Piers Morgan, she claimed the Epstein files were not just real — they were “incredibly disturbing.” Her tone was breathless, urgent, and designed to stoke outrage.67 And it worked. MAGA influencers flooded the airwaves with conspiratorial anticipation. The Q crowd rebooted their slogans. The entire far-right media machine reactivated its Epstein file countdown.
To hype it even further, the administration invited conservative influencers to the White House to receive binders labeled "The Epstein Files: Phase 1."68 But when those influencers cracked them open? It was almost entirely old, publicly available material — in fact, it was worse than that, as what was given to the influencers were heavily redacted whereas what was available publicly showed much more unredacted information.
The Beginning of the End
Fast forward to June: Elon Musk, in the middle of a public rift with Trump, threw gasoline on the fire by claiming Trump’s name was actually in the Epstein files and that was the real reason the documents were being buried69. He would later delete his post, but it did not matter. That one post was the first in the never-ending dominoes that are currently falling.
It would be just over a month until the entire thing boiled over. The DOJ announced that the Epstein investigation was officially "closed." They insisted there was no client list, no new evidence, no further disclosures coming.70 They released an 11-hour video that supposedly proved Epstein committed suicide — except the video left more questions than answers: it did not show Epstein’s cell because the camera that would have wasn’t “working,” it included a full minute mysteriously missing⁵⁹, and metadata revealed it may have been manipulated in Adobe Premiere Pro⁵⁸, despite Trump officials claiming the footage was a raw, unaltered recording.
Piers, who typically sides with Trump called Habba out71 on X/Twitter as many other Influencers started to ask questions about the sudden change of heart by the Trump’s administration on the Epstein subject. Even Tucker Carlson brought up Bondi’s claims from earlier in the year, keeping his attacks focused on Bondi rather than Trump.72
When pressed by a reporter during a cabinet meeting the following day (July 8, 2025), Trump snapped⁶⁸:
"Are you still talking about this creep? Are people still talking about Epstein? This is unbelievable."
The First Attempt at Deflection: Call It a Democrat “Hoax”
Within a few days came the final meltdown: Trump’s long, ranting Truth Social post defending Bondi, blaming the "Radical Left" for creating the Epstein files, and attacking his own followers for questioning him. Instead of rallying behind him, his base turned. The post ended up ratioed73, with tens of thousands of angry replies demanding answers rather than blindly applauding.
“Why are we giving publicity to Files written by Obama, Crooked Hillary, Comey, Brennan, and the Losers and Criminals of the Biden Administration”
With that one sentence Trump opened a can of worms. The DOJ had said there were no files, but now, Trump was claiming they did exist, but were a Democrat “hoax,” undermining his own cover up.
The Lies Start to Backfire
On July 15th while answering questions from the media, Trump claimed that Pam Bondi told him he is not in the Epstein Files when she briefed him on the subject.74
Except, that within about a week — on July 23rd — the Wall Street Journal would break the news that in fact, Trump had been briefed by Bondi back in May that he was in fact in the Epstein Files.75
Not only had Trump allegedly been informed months prior that his name appeared in the Epstein Files, but evidence suggests the FBI had been preparing for such revelations long before the public firestorm. According to letters sent by Senator Dick Durbin to Attorney General Pam Bondi76 as well as FBI Director Kash Patel77 and FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino78, Durbin’s office was informed that as early as March 2025, over 1,000 FBI personnel had been assigned to 24-hour shifts to comb through more than 100,000 Epstein-related documents. More alarmingly, Durbin relayed that these agents were allegedly instructed to “flag any records in which President Trump was mentioned.”79 Now, a new report from Newsweek reveals that Trump’s name — along with those of other prominent public figures — was redacted from the files during that effort, raising even more questions about what DOJ leadership knew, when they knew it, and how far they were willing to go to bury it.80
The Second Attempt: Throw Away Your Own Supporters
Trump’s next desperate move was to take the unexpected step of disavowing some of his most ardent supporters: those who believed he would be the one to defeat the supposed cabal of elites abusing children in association with Epstein. In a devastating post, he called them “weaklings,“ whose support he doesn’t want anymore.
And if that was not enough, he then doubled down, calling his supporters “stupid” and claiming that there were “duped” by Democrats81:
And finally, he tripled down, suggesting that only “pretty bad people”82 were still interested in Epstein Files — with Howard Lutnick, who still owns a townhouse that used to be owned by Jeffrey Epstein next door to Jeffrey Epstein’s infamous Manhattan townhouse83, standing by his side laughing as Trump threw his own supporters under the bus.
And finally, as part of what appears to be a last hail Mary to cement the Epstein Files as a Democrat “hoax,” Trump fired Maurene Comey84, daughter of James Comey, and lead prosecutor on the Epstein cases — not only leading the original prosecution against Epstein before his mysterious death in prison, but also one of the lead prosecutors of Ghislaine Maxwell’s case.
But none if it has worked. A large portion of Trump’s base continues looking for answer and every attempt to throw them under the bus or suggest it’s all just a “hoax” is only igniting them more. In fact, the entire talk of the Epstein Files being a “hoax” has now given Maxwell the opportunity to contest her conviction. After all, if the whole thing was a hoax, then why is she in prison serving a 20-year sentence? Her family has even issued a statement hinting that this is a card they’re considering playing.85
The Third Attempt: Damage Control Turned Self Damage
With large a large portion of the base still wanting answers on Epstein, even Republican members of Congress have done what seems impossible: breaking with Trump. Marjorie Taylor Greene has come out in support of those in the base whom Trump has tried to distance himself from.86
“… People in MAGA, they really want to know more information about the people that were involved with Jeffrey Epstein and is there a blackmail list and are there foreign countries, governments involved? There’s nothing wrong with people continuing to ask.”
and Josh Hawley have come out in support of Ghislaine Maxwell testifying before Congress.87
“Here’s what I think is maybe a little difficult to believe: the idea that the DOJ and FBI, who prosecuted cases related to this, that they don’t have any idea who Jeffrey Epstein’s clients were and that he had no record of it… Ghislaine Maxwell, I think that she said she would be willing to testify. Why not put her under oath? … I’d be fine with that.”
On top of that, Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna launched a bipartisan attempt to pass a discharge petition88 forcing the release of the Epstein Files.
The pushback has been so great that members of Congress on both sides of the aisle have come together to force testimony from Ghislaine Maxwell before Congress. James Comer — chair of the Oversight Committee — issued a subpoena for Maxwell to testify before the committee on August 11th.89
Once it became clear that Ghislaine Maxwell might actually testify before Congress — under oath, on camera, and in front of the world — the Trump regime scrambled. Just days after the subpoena, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche personally flew to the federal prison where Maxwell is serving her sentence and conducted two days of closed-door interviews. Blanche, notably, is the same man who served as Trump’s personal defense attorney in the Stormy Daniels case — the one that ended in 34 felony convictions. Now, suddenly, he was back in the spotlight, this time not to defend Trump, but to quietly interrogate a woman who potentially holds devastating secrets about him.
Even more stunning: the DOJ gave Ghislaine Maxwell proffer immunity90 — a legal shield that allows her to speak freely about criminal conduct, including potentially implicating herself or others, without fear of prosecution for anything she discloses during the interview. This kind of immunity is typically offered to cooperators in ongoing investigations. But according to the DOJ, there was no ongoing investigation — the Epstein case had been declared “closed.” So why was Trump’s deputy AG negotiating immunity deals with the most infamous woman in the Epstein network?
To top it off, just one week after her proffer interviews with Trump’s Deputy Attorney General, Ghislaine Maxwell has been quietly moved to a minimum-security prison91 in Texas. Previously, she had been held at a far more restrictive facility in Florida. The relocation raises serious questions: Is this a soft concession in exchange for cooperation? Her lawyer had submitted a list of demands to the House Oversight Committee, including immunity and a request not to testify from her Florida prison. The Committee rejected the immunity request but said they would consider the others. While it’s unclear whether the transfer was part of a deal, the optics are undeniable: a convicted child sex trafficker being granted increased freedom and comfort. With no public sign that her cooperation has led to new indictments in the supposedly “closed” Epstein case, Maxwell appears to inch closer to freedom — the only thing she seems to be offering is a promise not to incriminate Blanche’s boss, Donald Trump, who refuses to rule out a pardon for the convicted child sex trafficker.92
The Fourth Attempt: Pretend to Be Transparent
With backlash mounting and cracks spreading across the base, the Trump team has pivoted to their next strategy: flood the zone with distractions that look like transparency — but aren’t.
First came the president’s “health disclosure.” On July 17th, following public speculation over his visibly swollen ankles at a soccer match, the White House released a memo from Trump’s doctor diagnosing him with “chronic venous insufficiency,” a benign vein condition common in people over 7093. The press secretary read the memo aloud at a briefing, and Trump’s allies have since used it to portray him as unusually forthcoming about his health — a model of transparency, in contrast to Biden. But the press hasn’t bought it. It feels more like a calculated PR stunt to redirect headlines without actually addressing the bigger issue that has taken over the news cycle: the Epstein coverup.
Then, on July 18th, Trump officials tried something even more absurd: they filed a motion requesting the unsealing of grand jury transcripts from Epstein’s 2005 and 2007 indictments. But the move was doomed from the start. Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure strictly limit the circumstances under which grand jury records can be unsealed — and “distract my base from Epstein” isn’t one of them.94 More to the point, even if a judge had granted the request, the records themselves would have been nearly worthless. Grand jury transcripts only include the bare minimum needed to obtain an indictment. Since Epstein was the only person charged in those cases, the documents would contain nothing but limited evidence against him — and none against potential co-conspirators.95
This wasn’t about transparency. It was about optics. A motion the administration knew would fail, demanding documents they knew would say nothing — all to give the illusion that they were “releasing everything” while the real files, the ones people actually want, remained sealed and redacted.
Then, just days later, on the 21st, came the next deflection: 240,000 pages of FBI surveillance records on Martin Luther King Jr. Trump officials have suddenly released decades-old, long-contested documents about Dr. King over the objections of his family.96 Trump promised this document dump months ago as part of a broad executive order to declassify records connected to the deaths of JFK, RFK, and MLK. But the timing is no accident. As even Rev. Al Sharpton points out, this is not about truth or history — it is a “desperate attempt to distract people from the firestorm engulfing Trump over the Epstein files.”97
The King family had reviewed the files in advance but pleaded with the public to view them with “empathy, restraint, and respect for our family’s continuing grief.”⁸⁵ They also make clear the history behind these files: the FBI’s illegal surveillance of King was part of a disinformation campaign designed to discredit, dismantle, and destroy both the man and the movement. These aren’t ordinary records. They are part of J. Edgar Hoover’s COINTELPRO — a government operation that tried to paint King as a communist, destroy his reputation, and end the Civil Rights Movement before it could fully take root.
But Trump’s team isn’t trying to educate anyone about Hoover’s abuses. They are trying to weaponize them.
Attorney General Pam Bondi has posted a photo of herself alongside Alveda King — a conservative niece of MLK who has frequently broken with the family — as if to telegraph support. Tulsi Gabbard, now Director of National Intelligence, calls the release “unprecedented transparency.”⁸⁶
But it wasn’t transparency. It was a tactic. The Epstein narrative was collapsing, and the administration needed a new controversy to stir. So they dumped 240,000 pages of tainted surveillance on one of America’s most revered figures and dared the public to take the bait.
Once again, the Trump regime tried to smear someone else to save itself — even if that someone was Martin Luther King Jr.
The Fifth Attempt: Attack Black Personalities
With his followers still demanding answers and the Epstein fallout spiraling, Trump has done what he always does when cornered: try to change the subject — by pointing the finger at his favorite scapegoat:
Barack Obama.
After days of online silence, Trump himself reemerged on Truth Social — not with an explanation, but with a video. It shows Obama being arrested, handcuffed, and escorted by law enforcement officers. Of course, the video is fake — AI-generated fan fiction from the same corners of the internet that once pushed QAnon. But Trump doesn’t care. He has amplified it anyway, writing in all caps: “TREASON. THE CRIME OF THE CENTURY!”98
The excuse? A new conspiracy theory — this time, repackaged and promoted by Tulsi Gabbard, Trump’s handpicked Director of National Intelligence.
Gabbard, who once ran for president as a Democrat, claims she has uncovered “overwhelming evidence” that the Obama administration manipulated intelligence after the 2016 election to frame Trump. Her theory: that a 2017 intelligence report — one that concluded Russia interfered in the election to help Trump win — was not a legitimate analysis, but rather part of a “years-long coup” initiated by Obama. She calls it “treason,” demands prosecutions, and has declared the case closed.99
The only problem? It’s nonsense. The claims are based on outdated memos that don’t contradict the 2017 intelligence report at all. Even FactCheck.org, normally reserved in its language, calls it a “nonexistent contradiction” and says Gabbard has “distorted the facts.” The same report she attacked has been validated by Robert Mueller’s special counsel investigation, confirmed by a bipartisan Senate committee, and endorsed by Trump’s own Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, who once called the Russian meddling “irrefutable.”⁸⁵
And when that didn’t work? Trump figured he would claim Beyoncé, Oprah, and Al Sharpton took money to endorse Kamala Harris — and that they should be prosecuted for it.100 The accusation, completely unsubstantiated, echoed a fringe conspiracy that had already been debunked during the 2024 campaign.101 But that didn’t matter. With the Epstein backlash still burning and Ghislaine Maxwell closer than ever to flipping, Trump needed a new outrage cycle — one that would redirect his base’s fury toward a new target: Black celebrities, liberal icons, and the woman he still couldn’t believe beat him four years earlier.
But facts don’t matter. The goal isn’t truth — it’s deflection. Trump is so desperate to change the subject, to regain control of the narrative, that he will take literally anything that might achieve the goal of getting the news cycle away from the Epstein cover up. Does this seem like the actions of an innocent man?
There’s Too Much Smoke for There Not to Be Fire
We may not have a “smoking gun” tape of Trump raping someone. But let’s quickly go through what we do have:
An alleged rape by his first wife and a litigated one with E. Jean Carroll.
A long period of association with a multitude of pedophiles, including Casablancas, Weil, Epstein himself and even Prince Andrew102 as it has been recently reported.
The buying of the Miss Teen USA, Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants after he was already a rapist. By 1996, when he purchased the pageants, he had already allegedly raped Ivana in ‘89, as well E. Jean Carroll — who has since successfully litigated the rape. This demonstrates a desire to gain additional power and create opportunities for him to prey on women of all ages.
The multiple allegations from those who were underage when Trump’s sexual misconduct impacted them, along with the way he seems to look at underage girls, like the one at the elevator in ‘92 that he pointed out and said he’d be dating in 10 years; the way he leered at Maria Farmer in ‘95 and even the way he talks about his own daughter as seen below:
A string of 28 allegations of sexual misconduct varying from forced kissing to rape, of which 25 of them fall directly within the time when Trump became friends with Epstein — late 80s / early 90s — to 2007 when Epstein finally found himself in crosshairs of law enforcement for his child sex trafficking. Trump’s fame started to take off in 1986 and most of the allegations surfaced at the end of the 2016 presidential campaign, giving us a 30-year period to examine. The statistical chance that 25 of the 28 allegations would fall within the 16-year period between 1991 and 2007 is only 0.0057%. This represents the chance that the women accusing Trump just independently made fake allegations that fall within this time period. Put another way, there is a 99.9943% chance that if these allegations were made up, they would’ve been spread more evenly throughout the 30-year period from 1986 to 2016 rather than being clustered in the time period that Trump and Epstein were close. Furthermore, that the clustering overlaps precisely with his friendship to Epstein, rather than some other arbitrary period, only further reinforces the connection and validates the allegations.
The way that Epstein himself talked about Trump:
The incoherence of his offered timeline:
Saying he kicked Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago around 2000 because he knew Epstein was “stealing” underage girls from the spa — and what did Trump think Epstein wanted these underage girls for? A high-school math club?
Then telling New York Magazine in 2002 about how great Epstein was and how they had been friends for 15 years, and how Epstein likes “beautiful women as much as” Trump does, with “many of them” being on “the younger side.”
Then sending the “bawdy” letter to Epstein for his 50th birthday in 2003, talking about how “enigmas” never age, and wishing that every day for Epstein be a “wonderful secret.”
The incongruence with the fact that actually, Epstein’s membership at Mar-a-Lago lasted until October 2007107 when Trump purportedly kicked him out for inappropriate behavior towards a member’s daughter.
So, Trump kicked him out around 2000 when Epstein “stole” Giuffre and others, but then he gave Epstein a stellar review for New York Magazine in 2002, sent him an extremely friendly letter in 2003, and then kept Epstein’s membership to Mar-a-Lago until 2007 when he “re-banned” him from the club?
The panicked, rapid-fire, incoherent, attempts to kill the Epstein Files public interest since he’s returned to office in 2025 demonstrates a desperate, guilty individual, who sees the truth approaching. Almost everything that follows happened within the space of about 20 days:
Lying that the Epstein prison tape proves that he killed himself when it just creates more questions.
Throwing his most ardent supporters under the bus, calling them “weaklings”, “stupid”, “dupes” for still being interested in the Epstein Files.
Contradicting his own DOJ’s coverup by saying that the Epstein List is a “Democrat hoax” after the DOJ said there was an Epstein List, which requires that a list exist.
Offering Maxwell proffer immunity and moving her to minimum security for “contributing” to a case the DOJ has declared “closed”.
Refusing to rule out a pardon for Maxwell.
Firing Maurene Comey, who prosecuted both Epstein and Maxwell.
Lying in July about the fact that Bondi told him in May that he is in the Epstein files.
Having the FBI flag and redact every mention of his name in the Epstein Files in March.
Feigning “transparency” by trying to unseal a grand jury transcript that the courts were not going to unseal, which also would not have had much information anyway if they had.
Feigning Transparency by releasing his medical diagnosis.
Feigning Transparency by releasing the MLK Files against the family’s desire.
Accusing Obama of treason on obviously made-up claims.
Reviving the debunked claim that Beyonce, Oprah and Al Sharpton took money to endorse Kamala Harris.
Taken together, this tells a story of two friends who competed with one another to see who could exercise the most power over women, each in their own sick way. For Epstein, it was about having sex with underage girls that he would force under his control. For Trump, it was just as he described in the Access Hollywood tape, to own and take the opportunities to move in on the women — whether by groping, kissing, or grabbing “by the pussy” — that men drool over on TV while being untouchable due to his stardom.
But here’s the thing:
You can’t “win a competition” when the “competitors” aren’t aware of each other’s “moves”. There is no way that these two competitive predators did not brag to one another about their “game.” Given what we know now, I don’t see how anyone can come to any conclusion other than that, at minimum, Trump knew precisely what Epstein was doing, enabling and validating it, finding it “amusing” and “fun” even if having sex with underage girls was not his thing. At worst, and granted, this is much less likely though there’s evidence that supports it — the 2003 letter, the leering at underage girls, the comment about his “sexual age limit”, the allegations of walking in on underage girls — he partook on Epstein’s depraved hobby and just did a much better job of keeping it secret.
Whichever the case, Trump realizes that if people come to either conclusion, his life as he knows it is completely over. This is the reason for all the panicked misfiring going on now. Where he has been cool and collected about every scandal in his life, he knows this is the one he cannot survive. It’s up to you to decide if he gets away with it or if he is held accountable for it. In my eyes, he deserves to be locked away and forgotten in some dark cell where his only audience is his own shadow.
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Notes:
If you are familiar with the Epstein ↔ Trump reporting, there are two things you may have noticed absent from the main reporting above, that I will be including here just for the sake of completion, but that I did not feel confident keeping in the main reporting:
The supposed real estate deal that might have caused a rift between Trump and Epstein:
It has been reported that one possible reason why Trump and Epstein’s friendship ended was a real estate deal that took place in 2004 for one Maison de L’amitie in Palm Beach, Florida. The way the story goes, Epstein was the top bidder on it with a bid of about $36 million. Because Epstein trusted Trump’s knowledge about real estate, he supposedly brought Trump in to take a look at the property and subsequently Trump outbid Epstein with a $41.35 million bid. While there is reporting on the auction, the narrative is not really well established. Some of it is from Michael Wolff’s tapes (which to my knowledge he has not released the tape covering this publicly). Additionally, some of the other reporting has conflicting information. Some say they both were saying the other did not have the money to cover the purchase (Washington Post). Some say that Trump would not close because he wanted Title insurance (Esquire). Supposedly, after Trump outbid Epstein, Epstein started to harass him, and it was at this point that the two started to turn sour, with some reporting claiming that Trump would eventually get tired of it and point law enforcement in Epstein’s direction, which would lead to the 2006 case that eventually turned in the 2008 plea deal with Acosta. The issue is that way too much of it seems like conjecture. And with Trump having since come out and claimed that actually the falling out was because Epstein “stole” underage girls from the spa back in 2000, including Virginia Giuffre, the real estate angle seems even less reliable now, especially considering that records show that Epstein remained a member of Mar-a-Lago until 2007, further undermining the real estate angle (by suggesting that the two remained close until 2007 and that Trump’s claim about “stealing” spa attendants was him putting his foot in his mouth while desperately trying to take control of the narrative). One thing about the deal remains well established. Trump bought the property for $41.35 million in 2004 then sold it a four years later to a Russian named Dmitry Rybolovlev for $95 million, raising questions about Russian money laundering. But that’s a story for another day.The “Black Book” (which I did include in the original “I Dub Thee Trumpstein” article. There are a couple of reasons I did not include it here:
There is already plenty of reliable evidence that establishes the strong friendship between Trump and Epstein, from Trump’s own quote to the New York Magazine, to Epstein’s own voice in Michael Wolff’s tape, to the flight logs, to the many pictures and video of the two together. A phone/address book entry isn’t that much of a connection.
Oh, but Trump’s name is circled in the phone book. Here’s the thing, the way the reporting goes, Trump’s name, along with others, was not circled by Epstein himself. Rather, it was circled by an Alfredo Rodriguez, a former house manager for Epstein, who upon his termination, stole the book, circled a bunch of names that he “thought” might be Epstein clients, and then tried to sell the book for profit, before eventually being arrested and convicted for obstruction of justice. Therefore, I personally find the reliability of it as “evidence” of wrongdoing extremely sketchy. However, in the interest of completionism, the picture is attached below:
Mark Seal, Jeffrey Epstein: International Moneyman of Mystery, New York Magazine (October 28, 2002):
Epstein formed J. Epstein & Co. in the early 1980s, claiming to serve only billionaires. He managed Leslie Wexner’s fortune and was given power of attorney, allowing him to buy and manage properties on Wexner’s behalf. The article also includes Donald Trump’s infamous quote: “I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy. He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”
Marie Brenner, The Untold Tale of Young William Barr Among the Manhattan Liberals, Vanity Fair (October 7, 2019):
While Epstein was hired at Dalton just after Donald Barr stepped down, the hiring occurred during Barr’s tenure as headmaster. The choice was widely seen as irregular—Epstein lacked a college degree—yet it marked his first step into elite social circles. That Donald’s son, William Barr, would decades later oversee the Justice Department’s investigation into Epstein’s death has not gone unnoticed.
PBS News Staff, All the assault allegations against Donald Trump, recapped, PBS News (June 21, 2019):
Ivana Trump alleged in a 1990 divorce deposition that Donald Trump “violated their bond of love” in an incident described in court filings as “rape.” She later said her use of the word was figurative and “did not mean rape in the criminal sense.” She is bound by a confidentiality agreement and cannot speak publicly about the marriage without Trump’s approval.
Alex Kasprak, Are These Real 2023 Photos of Ivana Trump's Burial Site at Trump Golf Course?, Snopes (August 14, 2023):
Photos from 2023 show Ivana Trump’s grave at Trump’s Bedminster golf course overgrown and unkempt. She was buried there in 2022, near the first hole. The site drew viral attention for its barren, neglected appearance.
Edward Helmore, Will Ivana help Donald Trump with tax breaks from beyond the grave?, The Guardian (July 31, 2022):
Ivana Trump’s burial may enable Trump to claim significant tax exemptions under New Jersey law. The land was previously submitted for cemetery zoning. Experts noted this could provide property, income, and business tax relief.
Joanna Walters, Teen models, powerful men and private dinners – when Trump hosted Look of the Year, The Guardian (March 14, 2020):
Elite Model Management, founded by John Casablancas, recruited teenage girls from around the world. Casablancas was photographed alongside Donald Trump at events involving young models. Shayna Love, an Australian model who was 16 at the time, recalled attending a private dinner with Trump and Casablancas, describing it as “something we were expected to do as models.”
Additionally, the article confirms that in 1996, Trump purchased the Miss USA, Miss Teen USA, and Miss Universe pageants, solidifying his control over the beauty contest empire.
Also documents that David Weil, a former Elite Model executive linked to both Trump and Casablancas, pled guilty in 1998 to statutory rape and investor fraud after targeting a 15-year-old he met at the contest.
Amanda Marcotte, Video from 1991 shows Trump at teen modeling competition, Salon (July 21, 2025):
Footage from the 1991 “Look of the Year” contest shows Donald Trump serving as one of ten judges. The event featured dozens of teenage girls, some reportedly as young as 14. In the video, Trump is seen gesturing toward contestants, physically repositioning them, and commenting on their bodies and appearance.
The article also references Trump’s 2005 Howard Stern interview, where he openly bragged about walking into dressing rooms at his own pageants while contestants were changing.
The Week Staff, John Casablancas, 1942–2013, The Week (July 24, 2013):
Casablancas had a public affair with 16-year-old Stephanie Seymour in 1983, ending his marriage. He often slept with models and encouraged a party lifestyle. Though not implicated in later scandals involving Elite’s European agents, Casablancas left the agency following a damaging 1999 BBC documentary.
Veronica Horwell, John Casablancas obituary, The Guardian (July 24, 2013):
Casablancas’s marriage ended after a very public affair in 1983 with 16-year-old model Stephanie Seymour. A decade later, he married 17-year-old Aline Wermelinger, whom he had “met as a schoolgirl entrant in an Elite contest in Rio de Janeiro.” Casablancas openly admitted his preference for “child women” and remained unapologetic about his behavior throughout his career.
Karen Tumulty, Woman says Trump reached under her skirt and groped her in early 1990s, The Washington Post (October 14, 2016):
Anderson alleged that Trump groped her while she was sitting at a Manhattan nightclub with friends. She identified him only after recoiling and looking up at his face, which she described as unmistakable. The incident was corroborated by a friend she told days later and a photographer who recalled hearing the story years before it became public.
Donald Trump Makes Lewd Remarks About Women On Video, NBC News (October 7, 2016)
The infamous “Access Hollywood” tape captures Donald Trump boasting about sexually assaulting women — saying, “When you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything… grab ’em by the pussy.” The release of the footage just before the 2016 election led to widespread backlash and opened the floodgates for dozens of women to come forward with similar allegations.
Trump makes questionable comments about young girls in 1992 video. CBS News. (October 12, 2016)
In a resurfaced Entertainment Tonight clip from 1992, Trump asks a young girl if she’s going up an escalator, then turns to the camera and says: “I’m going to be dating her in 10 years, can you believe it?”
Michael D. Shear and Maggie Haberman, Donald Trump: ‘Not a Fan’, The New York Times (July 9, 2019):
Footage from a 1992 Mar-a-Lago party shows Trump socializing with Jeffrey Epstein, pointing toward women on the dance floor, whispering in Epstein’s ear, and provoking laughter. The video, unearthed by NBC, was cited as early evidence of their shared social circle and apparent interest in young women.
Kenneth P. Vogel and Susanne Craig, Inside the Long Friendship Between Trump and Epstein, The New York Times (July 19, 2025):
Following the 1993 Mar-a-Lago party for the American Dream finalists, Jill Harth filed a lawsuit against Donald Trump, accusing him of sexual assault and attempted rape. The suit was dropped in 1997 after Trump settled a related business dispute with Harth’s partner, George Houraney. The terms of that settlement remain confidential. The party itself was later described by Houraney as a setup, with Epstein as the only guest despite promises of VIP modeling agents.
The story also highlights how closely intertwined Trump’s circle had become with Epstein’s — including public appearances with Melania, Epstein, and Ghislaine Maxwell at Mar-a-Lago.
Beth Reinhard, Alice Crites, and Aaron Schaffer, Trump accused of groping by former model Stacey Williams, The Washington Post (October 24, 2024):
Williams, a former Sports Illustrated model, said Trump groped her in Trump Tower in 1993 while Epstein looked on. She described the moment as a “twisted game” between the two men. She passed a polygraph, produced a signed postcard from Trump, and had contemporaneous witnesses who corroborated her account as early as 2005.
Stephanie Kirchgaessner and Lucy Osborne, Donald Trump groped me in what felt like a ‘twisted game’ with Jeffrey Epstein, former model alleges, The Guardian (October 23, 2024):
Williams alleges Trump groped her in Trump Tower in early 1993 while Epstein stood nearby smiling. She described the moment as a “twisted game” between the men. Trump later sent her a postcard of Mar-a-Lago, signed “Your home away from home. Love Donald.” She shared the story publicly in 2024 and corroborated it with friends who recalled her mentioning the incident as early as 2005 and again in 2015.
Southern District of New York, Jane Doe v. Trump – Filed September 30, 2016, Politico (2016):
Federal civil complaint filed in the Southern District of New York accusing Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein of raping a 13-year-old girl at parties in 1994. Includes graphic allegations and affidavits from two witnesses. The case was later withdrawn before being heard.
Central District of California, Katie Johnson v. Donald Trump – Filed April 26, 2016, CourtListener (2016):
Initial pro se filing by “Katie Johnson” in California, later dismissed due to citing the wrong statute. Allegations mirrored those later filed in New York. Dismissal was procedural, not factual.
Mike Hayes, Attorney: Donald Trump Will Have To Answer Teen's Rape Accusation In Court, BuzzFeed News (October 12, 2016):
Outlines the transition from the original California suit to the refiled New York case. Details emerging legal support, plans for a press conference, and the eventual voluntary dismissal after threats. Highlights the attorney’s insistence that the case was credible and carefully vetted.
German Lopez, The lawsuit accusing Trump of raping a 13-year-old girl, explained, Vox (November 3, 2016):
Provides broader context around the Jane Doe lawsuit, including concerns about the credibility of some intermediaries involved, the media’s cautious coverage, and the unresolved status of the accusations.
Donald Trump’s Sexual ‘Age Limit’ Comments on The Howard Stern Show Come Back to Bite Him. The Daily Beast. (July 21, 2025)
In a resurfaced 2006 Howard Stern interview, Trump dodges the question of a lower age limit for sex, then says, “I don’t want to be like Congressman Foley… with 12-year-olds.”
Ben Wieder and Julie K. Brown, Logs show Trump flew more often on Epstein jets than was known, Miami Herald (December 21, 2021):
Flight records introduced during the Maxwell trial show Trump flew at least six times on Epstein jets between 1993 and 1997. Flights were domestic: Palm Beach to NYC, one via Washington. Passengers included Marla Maples, Tiffany, Eric Trump, and a nanny. Some entries use shorthand like “+N pax” or “+2 females,” making full manifests unclear. Trump did not own a plane during that time.
Guardian Staff, Jeffrey Epstein accuser urged FBI to investigate Trump decades ago – report, The Guardian (July 21, 2025)
Maria Farmer, the first woman known to report Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell to law enforcement in 1996, told the FBI at that time—and again in 2006—that Donald Trump should be investigated due to a disturbing 1995 encounter at Epstein’s office. She recalled Trump silently hovering over her legs and later remarking that he thought she was 16. Farmer has long questioned why authorities never followed up on her repeated warnings.
Aaron Blake, Judge clarifies: Yes, Trump was found to have raped E. Jean Carroll, The Washington Post (July 19, 2023):
Judge Lewis Kaplan wrote that although the jury stopped short of calling it "rape" under New York law, it effectively found that Trump forcibly penetrated Carroll, meeting the standard of rape as commonly understood.
ABC News Staff, Trump ordered to pay $83.3 million to E. Jean Carroll in defamation case, ABC News (February 7, 2024):
A second jury awarded Carroll $83.3 million after determining Trump’s continued attacks on her credibility were defamatory. This came after the earlier $5 million ruling tied to the original sexual assault and defamation.
Leigh Kimmins, E. Jean Carroll Trolls Trump as His Appeal Fails in $5M Sexual Abuse and Defamation Case, The Daily Beast (July 11, 2025):
Trump’s appeal of the $5 million verdict was denied by the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals. He now faces payment of an additional $83.3 million awarded by a separate jury for ongoing defamation. Carroll responded with a celebratory post, declaring the court’s rejection a final farewell.
Mollie Reilly and Sam Stein, Trump Faces Another Accusation — This Time, He Looked Up Models’ Skirts, HuffPost (October 13, 2016):
Lisa Boyne described a 1996 dinner with Donald Trump, John Casablancas, and several young models. She alleged Trump made the girls walk across a table so he could look up their skirts and make comments about their underwear and bodies. Boyne said the scene was deeply offensive and stayed with her for decades, prompting her to speak out after Trump’s 2016 Access Hollywood tape.
Kendall Taggart and Jessica Testa, Teen Beauty Queens Say Trump Walked In On Them Changing, BuzzFeed News (October 12, 2016):
Five former Miss Teen USA contestants alleged that Trump entered the dressing room while girls as young as 15 were changing, some of them nude or partially clothed. Trump was the owner of the pageant at the time.
Jessica Testa, A Fifth Teen Beauty Queen Says Trump Visited Dressing Room, BuzzFeed News (October 13, 2016):
A fifth contestant corroborated the pattern of Trump entering dressing areas during Miss Teen USA events, reinforcing prior accounts shared publicly the day before.
Donald Trump's crude talk on The Howard Stern Show, CNN (October 8, 2016):
In audio from a 2005 interview with Howard Stern, Trump boasts about his ability to walk into dressing rooms at his beauty pageants while contestants — some of them teenagers — were undressed, claiming he could “get away with things” because he was the owner.
Molly Redden, Donald Trump 'grabbed me and went for the lips', says new accuser, The Guardian, (October 16, 2016)
Details Cathy Heller’s account of being forcibly grabbed and kissed by Trump during a Mother’s Day brunch at Mar-a-Lago in 1997. Her story was corroborated by multiple witnesses and shared with others years before going public.
Michael Barbaro, Megan Twohey, and Kate Kelly, Crossing the Line: How Donald Trump Behaved With Women in Private, The New York Times, (May 14, 2016)
Includes Temple Taggart McDowell’s allegation that Trump kissed her on the mouth twice in 1997 without consent, and pressured her to lie about her age to appear younger for modeling opportunities.
CNN, Trump accuser: former Miss Utah Temple Taggart entire CNN interview, YouTube, (October 14, 2016)
Video interview in which Temple Taggart McDowell details how Donald Trump kissed her without consent twice in 1997 — once at a pageant event and again at Trump Tower — and how the experience left her feeling humiliated and powerless.
Elizabeth Chuck, Karena Virginia Becomes 10th Woman to Accuse Trump of Sexual Misconduct, NBC News, (October 20, 2016)
Virginia alleges that in 1998, Trump made lewd comments about her legs, then groped her breast and arm outside the U.S. Open, later berating her for reacting in shock.
Hugh Dougherty, Listen To The Jeffrey Epstein Tapes: ‘I Was Donald Trump’s Closest Friend’, The Daily Beast, (June 5, 2025)
Audio tapes recorded by Michael Wolff include Epstein’s claim that Trump first had sex with Melania on his private jet, the “Lolita Express.” The tapes offer Epstein’s personal and graphic account of Trump’s sexual behavior, including his proclivity for betraying friends and exploiting women.
Josh Gerstein, Unsealed documents detail alleged Epstein victim’s recruitment at Mar-a-Lago, Politico, (August 9, 2019)
Outlines Virginia Giuffre’s 2000 recruitment by Ghislaine Maxwell while she worked at Mar-a-Lago. Giuffre testified she was approached by Maxwell after being seen reading a massage book. That conversation led to her sexual abuse by Jeffrey Epstein and eventual trafficking across his properties. The documents include Giuffre’s pay records from Mar-a-Lago and a letter of recommendation written by Donald Trump for her father.
Annie Karni and Maggie Haberman, Donald Trump ‘Not a Fan.’, The New York Times (July 9, 2019)
Outlines Trump’s shifting explanations for distancing himself from Epstein — including claims of a real estate dispute, discomfort with Epstein’s behavior toward a club member’s daughter, and Trump’s eventual statement that he was “not a fan.”
Ben Johansen, Trump: Epstein ‘Stole’ Young Woman From Mar-a-Lago Spa, Politico (July 29, 2025)
In remarks aboard Air Force One, Trump claimed Epstein “stole” young women from the Mar-a-Lago spa — including, he believes, Virginia Giuffre — and said this was the reason he eventually severed ties with Epstein.
Trump Says Epstein ‘Stole’ Young Women From Mar-a-Lago Spa, Including Virginia Giuffre, Associated Press (July 29, 2025)
Includes video of Trump aboard Air Force One stating that Epstein “stole” girls from the Mar-a-Lago spa, naming Virginia Giuffre as one of them. Trump claims he gave Epstein a warning after the first incident, and banned him after the second.
Khadeeja Safdar and Joe Palazzolo, Exclusive — Jeffrey Epstein’s Friends Sent Him Bawdy Letters for a 50th Birthday Album. One Was From Donald Trump, The Wall Street Journal (July 17, 2025)
In a 2003 birthday letter included in Epstein’s private album, Trump’s typewritten note — stylized as a back-and-forth with Epstein — ends with the line: “Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret.” The page was adorned with a nude sketch and included cryptic lines like “enigmas never age” and “we have certain things in common,” alongside a signature written below the waist of the drawing.
CBS Los Angeles, Former Beauty Queen: Contestants Were Forced to Greet Trump Even When Not Fully Dressed, CBS News (October 11, 2016)
Former Miss Arizona Teen USA Tasha Dixon alleged that during the 2001 pageant, Donald Trump entered the dressing area unannounced while contestants, many of them teenagers, were in various stages of undress. She described the experience as humiliating and predatory.
Lori Rozsa and Jane Musgrave, Donald Trump: Woman says candidate groped her, Palm Beach Post (October 12, 2016)
Mindy McGillivray alleged that in 2003, while attending a concert at Mar-a-Lago, Trump groped her buttocks without consent while she stood next to him and her employer, a photographer.
Jennifer Savin, Exclusive: Apprentice Star Jennifer Murphy On Her Relationship With Donald Trump, Grazia (June 29, 2019)
Jennifer Murphy, a contestant on The Apprentice in 2005, alleged that after a job interview at Trump Tower, Trump kissed her on the lips without consent. She initially stayed quiet but later described the moment as uncomfortable and inappropriate.
Megan Twohey and Michael Barbaro, Two Women Say Donald Trump Touched Them Inappropriately, The New York Times (October 12, 2016)
Rachel Crooks, a receptionist at a real estate company in Trump Tower in 2005, alleged that Trump grabbed her hand, kissed her on the cheeks, and then kissed her “directly on the mouth” without consent after she introduced herself in the lobby.
Natasha Stoynoff, Attacked by Donald Trump — a PEOPLE Writer's Own Harrowing Story, People (October 12, 2016)
Stoynoff alleged that during a 2005 interview at Mar-a-Lago, Trump lured her into a room, closed the door behind them, and forcibly pushed her against the wall to kiss her, only stopping when interrupted by a butler. It also includes a claim from Jessica Leeds that would have taken place sometime in the 1980s.
Gloria Allred, 11th Woman Accuses Trump of Inappropriate Sexual Conduct, NBC News (October 24, 2016)
Adult film actress Jessica Drake accused Trump of kissing her without consent and later offering her $10,000 and the use of his private jet in exchange for sex after they met at a golf tournament in 2006.
Barney Henderson, Former Miss Finland becomes 12th woman to accuse Trump of sexual assault, The Telegraph (October 27, 2016)
Former Miss Finland Ninni Laaksonen alleged that Trump groped her from behind before a joint television appearance in New York in 2006, describing it as an unsolicited and inappropriate act.
Esther Lee, Donald Trump Reportedly Treated Miss USA Contestants Like 'Property', Yahoo News (June 17, 2016)
The article highlights allegations from Cassandra Searles, Miss Washington USA 2013, who accused Trump of groping her and treating contestants "like cattle," recalling that he lined them up and inspected them like “meat” while owning the Miss USA pageant.
Jessica Glenza, ‘It felt like tentacles’: the women who accuse Trump of sexual misconduct, The Guardian (September 17, 2020)
The article features allegations from Karen Johnson, who says Trump groped and forcibly kissed her without consent during a New Year’s Eve party at Mar-a-Lago, pushing her against a wall and grabbing her as she attempted to leave the bathroom.
Julia Glum, Who Is Summer Zervos? Watch Video Of Latest Donald Trump Accuser Claim Sexual Misconduct, International Business Times (October 14, 2016)
Summer Zervos, a former Apprentice contestant, accused Trump of groping and thrusting his genitals toward her after she sought career advice. The article situates her among a wave of women who came forward in 2016, alleging sexual misconduct by Trump that spanned decades. Zervos’ account, like many others, echoes a consistent pattern: unsolicited touching, abuse of power, and a total disregard for consent.
Yohana Desta, Don’t Tell Donald Trump: Stormy Daniels Lands 60 Minutes Its Best Ratings in 10 Years, Vanity Fair (March 26, 2018)
Daniels described her 2006 encounter with Trump, noting that Melania had “recently given birth” to Barron and that Trump dismissed concerns about his marriage, saying they had “separate rooms and stuff.” She also explained how Michael Cohen paid her $130,000 in hush money to stay silent about the affair and how she felt intimidated afterward.
Jonah E. Bromwich and Ben Protess, Trump Guilty on All Counts in Hush-Money Case, The New York Times (May 30, 2024)
Trump was convicted on 34 felony counts for falsifying business records to cover up hush money paid to Stormy Daniels during the 2016 campaign. The historic verdict made him the first American president ever convicted of a felony.
Investigation into the U.S. Attorney’s Office on Jeffrey Epstein Case, Office of Professional Responsibility (Nov. 2020)
Provides a comprehensive overview of Epstein’s 2006–2008 case, including the non-prosecution agreement authorized by U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta, its unprecedented leniency, how it violated the Crime Victims’ Rights Act, and how Acosta later became Trump’s Secretary of Labor despite these findings.
The ‘completely unprecedented’ plea deal Jeffrey Epstein made with Alex Acosta, PBS NewsHour (July 8, 2019)
Interview with former federal prosecutor Elie Honig, who describes the plea deal as “indefensible,” criticizes Acosta’s failure to inform victims, and calls Trump’s defense of Acosta “inexplicable.”
Brandi Buchman, Trump Defends Acosta Despite Epstein’s Sweetheart Deal, Courthouse News Service (July 10, 2019)
Covers Trump’s continued public defense of Alex Acosta even after renewed media scrutiny of the Epstein case, detailing the administration’s attempts to distance itself from the fallout.
Joan E. Greve and agencies, Jeffrey Epstein charged with federal sex trafficking crimes, The Guardian, (July 8, 2019)
Details Epstein’s 2019 arrest, federal sex trafficking charges, and allegations involving Mar-a-Lago.
PBS NewsHour Staff, Epstein’s death was a ‘perfect storm of screw-ups,’ says AG Barr, PBS News, (Nov. 22, 2019)
Attorney General Barr blamed Epstein's death on staff negligence and systemic failures but rejected foul play.
Dhruv Mehrotra, Metadata Shows the FBI’s ‘Raw’ Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Was Likely Modified, WIRED, (July 16, 2025)
Reveals that the “raw” footage was in fact edited with Adobe Premiere and saved multiple times before being released.
Dhruv Mehrotra, The FBI’s Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Had Nearly 3 Minutes Cut Out, WIRED, (July 15, 2025)
Forensic analysis confirmed 2 minutes and 53 seconds were cut from the source video — including a gap just before midnight.
James Halpin, Mysterious 'lost minute' in Epstein CCTV fuels conspiracy theories but Trump rages: ‘We still talking about this creep?’, The Sun, (July 9, 2025)
Reports that the entire 11:59pm minute is missing, contradicting FBI’s claim of 11 continuous hours of footage. Also documents Trump angrily cutting off a question about Epstein during a Cabinet meeting — dismissing the topic entirely.
CBS News Staff, Forensics expert analysis of Jeffrey Epstein jail video contradicts government's claims, CBS News, (July 29, 2025)
Demonstrates that the main SHU entrance is not visible on the video and that the stairwell to Epstein’s cell is only partially in frame.
Ed Pilkington, What are the Jeffrey Epstein files and will they be released?, The Guardian, (July 24, 2025)
Details the scale and scope of the materials seized in federal Epstein probes, including flight logs, images of Epstein with victims, grand jury records, and over 10,000 illicit videos and images — some depicting child sexual abuse.
The Telegraph, Donald Trump promises to release Jeffrey Epstein 'client list' if he wins the US election, September 3, 2024
In an interview with Lex Fridman, Trump said he’d have “no problem” releasing the Epstein files but immediately backpedaled, calling the subject “phony” and expressing concern about “affect[ing] people’s lives.”
Fox News, Will Cain Show – Full Exclusive Interview With Former President Donald Trump, June 3, 2025
Trump reiterated that he would release documents related to JFK, MLK, and Epstein, but expressed the least confidence about Epstein, saying “less so because you don't want to affect people’s lives with this phony stuff.”
Sen. JD Vance | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von, October 22, 2024
During an interview with Theo Von, JD Vance laughed and emphatically supported the idea of releasing the Epstein files, stating: “Seriously, we need to release the Epstein list. That is an important thing.”
Haley Chi-Sing, Bondi says Epstein client list 'sitting on my desk right now,' and is reviewing JFK, MLK files, Fox News, (February 21, 2025)
Pam Bondi, serving as Attorney General under Trump, told Fox News the Epstein client list was “sitting on my desk right now” and mentioned it in the same breath as the JFK and MLK files. The comment ignited a firestorm of speculation among Trump supporters expecting imminent revelations.
Piers Morgan Uncensored, Alina Habba says Epstein files are ‘incredibly disturbing’, Twitter/X, (February 27, 2025)
In an on-air interview with Piers Morgan, White House counsel Alina Habba described the Epstein files as “incredibly disturbing,” suggesting there was significant content within that had not yet been made public. Her comments amplified expectations among Trump supporters that explosive disclosures were imminent.
Elissa Steedman, Why top Trump officials are fighting over an Epstein document they say does not exist, ABC News (July 12, 2025).
This article details the public rift within the Trump administration after Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI leadership clashed over the existence of an Epstein “client list.” It covers Bondi’s earlier promises, the internal fallout, the DOJ’s release of CCTV footage, and the final official conclusion that no such list exists, as well as the resulting backlash from Trump’s base.
Josh Fiallo, Musk Accuses Trump of Being in the Epstein Files in Jaw-Dropping Break-up Dig, The Daily Beast (June 5, 2025).
This article reports on Elon Musk’s public accusation that Donald Trump is named in the “Epstein files,” alleging this is why the files have not been released. It provides context on Trump’s historical relationship with Epstein, Musk and Trump’s escalating feud, and the broader political fallout, including reactions to the lack of new revelations in the Epstein case despite previous promises by the Trump administration.
Alex Isenstadt, DOJ, FBI conclude Epstein had no “client list,” died by suicide, Axios, (July 6, 2025)
Citing a memo obtained by Axios, the article reports that the DOJ and FBI officially closed the Epstein investigation. The memo found no “client list,” no credible blackmail evidence, and no basis for charges against any unindicted parties. It also reaffirmed Epstein’s death as a suicide and stated that no further disclosures were “appropriate or warranted.”
Justin Baragona, Piers Morgan calls out Alina Habba for hyping ‘incredibly disturbing’ Epstein files that never materialized, The Independent (July 7, 2025).
This article details how Alina Habba, a top Trump official, repeatedly promised “shocking” new revelations from the Epstein investigation but those files never materialized. The piece tracks the resulting backlash from MAGA supporters, the DOJ memo stating no Epstein “client list” exists and growing right-wing frustration as conspiracy theories go unfulfilled.
Sara Dorn, Tucker Carlson Blasts Pam Bondi For ‘A Bunch Of Ludicrous Claims’ About Epstein Files — As Backlash Mounts, Forbes, (July 14, 2025)
Tucker Carlson criticized Pam Bondi in an NBC interview for making “a bunch of ludicrous claims” about the Epstein files, particularly her assertion earlier in the year that the client list was “on her desk.” Carlson accused Bondi of misleading the public and blamed her for the growing outrage among Trump’s base, while notably avoiding any direct criticism of Trump himself.
Donald Trump, Post on Truth Social, Truth Social (July 12, 2025).
In a lengthy Truth Social post, Donald Trump lashes out at his supporters and allies for criticizing Attorney General Pam Bondi over the Epstein files, claims the files are a “hoax” created by political enemies, and urges his base to move on from the Epstein story, emphasizing his administration’s achievements and repeating claims that the 2020 and 2024 elections were rigged.
Associated Press, Trump praises Bondi’s Epstein file handling, says she should release what ‘she thinks is credible’, AP News, (July 15, 2025)
In this video, Trump defends Attorney General Pam Bondi’s management of the Epstein files, stating that the DOJ told him he is not implicated in any of the materials. He suggests Bondi should decide what to release based on what she finds “credible,” distancing himself from the disclosure process.
Sadie Gurman, Annie Linskey, Josh Dawsey, and Alex Leary, Justice Department Told Trump in May That His Name Is Among Many in the Epstein Files, The Wall Street Journal, (July 23, 2025)
According to senior administration officials, Pam Bondi and her deputy informed Trump in May that his name appeared multiple times in the Epstein files. The documents also named many other high-profile individuals, and were described as containing unverified hearsay. Despite the revelation, the DOJ concluded no further disclosures would be made. Trump's public denial of being told this came days before the story broke.
Dick Durbin, Letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi Regarding Epstein Files, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, (July 18, 2025)
Durbin asks AG Bondi to clarify whether she informed Trump of his name appearing in the Epstein Files, and whether she signed off on DOJ decisions to halt further disclosures. He also questions reports of redactions and FBI labor reassignment related to Epstein records.
Dick Durbin, Letter to FBI Director Kiran Patel Regarding Epstein Files, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, (July 18, 2025)
Durbin seeks confirmation of reports that over 1,000 FBI agents were assigned to round-the-clock shifts to review Epstein-related documents. He asks whether orders were given to “flag” any files referencing Trump and to clarify what role DOJ political leadership played in reviewing redactions.
Dick Durbin, Letter to FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino Regarding Epstein Files, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, (July 18, 2025)
Durbin raises concerns about alleged tension between DOJ leadership and the FBI over Epstein file disclosures. He requests details on chain-of-command decisions around redactions and whether the Deputy Director witnessed or approved document suppression.
Dick Durbin, Durbin Presses Bondi, Patel, Bongino On Rifts Between DOJ, FBI, White House On Epstein Files, U.S. Senate, (July 18, 2025)
Durbin announced he had sent letters to DOJ and FBI officials based on information received by his office suggesting that over 1,000 FBI personnel were placed on 24-hour shifts to review over 100,000 Epstein-related records — with explicit instructions to “flag any records in which President Trump was mentioned.”
Katherine Fung, Donald Trump Among Public Figures Redacted by FBI in Jeffrey Epstein Files — Report, Newsweek, (August 1, 2025)
A report reviewed by Newsweek revealed that Trump’s name — along with those of other prominent individuals — had been redacted during the FBI’s March review of the Epstein Files, despite prior internal flagging during document review.
Trump fires back at ‘stupid Republicans’ calling for release of Epstein files, NBC News, (July 16, 2025)
In a televised segment, Trump refers to his own supporters and GOP allies as “stupid Republicans” for demanding the release of the Epstein files, claiming they were “duped” by Democrats into believing what he now calls the “Epstein hoax.”
NewsNation / The Hill, Trump’s Sharp Response to Epstein and Economy Headlines, YouTube, (July 16, 2025)
During a press interaction, Trump dismisses continued interest in the Epstein Files, saying that “only pretty bad people” are still asking questions about the case, further distancing himself from his prior promises to release the documents.
Hugh Cameron, Howard Lutnick's Ties to Jeffrey Epstein Come Under Scrutiny, Newsweek (July 16,2025)
Howard Lutnick, Trump’s Commerce Secretary, has longstanding real estate ties to Jeffrey Epstein, having purchased and lived in Epstein’s former Manhattan townhouse at 11 E. 71st St. While Lutnick and the Commerce Department deny any personal relationship, property records confirm Epstein owned and transferred the property through entities linked to him before selling to Lutnick in 1998.
NBC News, Federal prosecutor Maurene Comey fired by Department of Justice, NBC News, (July 16, 2025)
Reports that federal prosecutor Maurene Comey, who had previously overseen elements of the Epstein case, was fired by the Department of Justice. The timing of her dismissal — just weeks before the official closure of the Epstein investigation — has raised questions about political interference and internal power struggles within the DOJ.
Matt Lavietes, Ghislaine Maxwell's family appeals to Trump amid battle over Epstein files, NBC News, (July 16, 2025)
The article reports that Ghislaine Maxwell’s family issued a public statement claiming she “did not receive a fair trial” and urging Donald Trump to intervene. Her attorney argued the DOJ violated Epstein’s 2007 non-prosecution agreement, and the family floated the possibility of a habeas corpus filing. The appeal was released amid growing public scrutiny of the Trump administration’s efforts to suppress or manipulate the Epstein files.
Marjorie Taylor Greene, MTG warns of ‘big’ blowback in MAGA world over handling of Epstein case, CNN, (July 15, 2025)
During an interview with CNN, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene expressed growing dissatisfaction within the MAGA base over the Trump administration’s handling of the Epstein case. She acknowledged that MAGA supporters "really want to know more information" about Epstein’s connections, including whether there is a "blackmail list" or involvement by foreign governments, adding, "There’s nothing wrong with people continuing to ask."
Sen. Josh Hawley, JUST IN: Hawley Calls BS On Idea That DOJ, FBI Don't Know Who Epstein Clients Are: 'Hard To Believe', Forbes Breaking News, (July 16, 2025)
In a press gaggle captured on video, Senator Josh Hawley criticized the idea that the DOJ and FBI are unaware of Epstein’s clients despite prosecuting related cases. He stated, “It’s hard to believe” they have “no record of it,” and pointed out that Ghislaine Maxwell has reportedly expressed willingness to testify, suggesting, “Why not put her under oath?”
U.S. House of Representatives, H.Res.581 — Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding the public disclosure of the Epstein client list and related documents, Congress.gov, (2025)
This document is a bipartisan resolution introduced in the House of Representatives calling for public disclosure of Jeffrey Epstein’s client list, as well as all documents seized by law enforcement in relation to his sex trafficking operations. The resolution further supports a legislative push via a discharge petition to compel a vote on the Epstein Files Transparency Act, circumventing committee obstruction.
United States House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, Chairman Comer Subpoenas Ghislaine Maxwell for Deposition at Federal Prison, United States House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, (July 23, 2025)
Chairman James Comer issued a subpoena for Ghislaine Maxwell to testify at Federal Correctional Institution Tallahassee on August 11, 2025. The DOJ agreed to facilitate the deposition. The announcement follows President Trump’s public call for the release of grand jury transcripts and ongoing congressional efforts to declassify Epstein-related materials, including public testimony from Maxwell.
Hannah Parry, Ghislaine Maxwell Offered Conditional Immunity in DOJ Interviews: Reports, Newsweek, (July 25, 2025)
The article reports that Ghislaine Maxwell initiated a meeting with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche — who also served as Trump’s defense attorney — and was granted conditional (proffer) immunity by the DOJ prior to two days of questioning. The meeting took place amid mounting pressure for transparency about the Epstein case, and the move has drawn sharp criticism, with Senator Chuck Schumer warning it “stinks of high corruption and conflict of interest.” Blanche later stated the DOJ would share more about what they learned “at the appropriate time.”
Hannah Parry, Ghislaine Maxwell Quietly Moved To Minimum Security Prison: What We Know, Newsweek, (August 1, 2025)
Newsweek reports that Ghislaine Maxwell was transferred to Federal Prison Camp Bryan, a minimum-security facility in Texas, just one week after meeting with Deputy AG Todd Blanche. The transfer followed her request to not testify from her original Florida prison and came amid speculation surrounding cooperation, clemency hopes, and her pending August 11 Congressional testimony.
Jason Lalljee, Trump won't rule out pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell, Axios, (July 28, 2025)
Trump told reporters he is “allowed” to pardon Maxwell but has “not thought about it.” His comments came just days after Maxwell met with Deputy AG Todd Blanche and was reportedly granted limited immunity to discuss Epstein’s child sex trafficking ring. The article also notes Maxwell’s pending Supreme Court appeal and suggests her testimony may be politically significant as Trump faces growing scrutiny over his Epstein ties.
Trump diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency, a minor vein condition, after noticing swelling in legs, CBS News, (July 17, 2025)
After public concern over Trump’s swollen ankles during a soccer match, the White House released a memo stating he had been diagnosed with “chronic venous insufficiency,” described as a minor and common condition among older adults. The announcement was widely seen as a strategic effort to appear transparent amid unrelated scandals.
Rebecca Schneid, Trump Administration Seeks Epstein Grand Jury Files, TIME, (July 23, 2025)
The article outlines how the Trump Administration, via a DOJ motion signed by Pam Bondi and Todd Blanche, requested that grand jury transcripts from Epstein’s 2005 and 2007 indictments be unsealed, arguing it was in the public interest. A federal judge denied the request, stating it did not meet any legal exceptions under Rule 6(e). Former prosecutors noted that grand jury material is minimal and unlikely to contain any new revelations beyond Epstein’s own charges.
Catherine Stoddard, Judge denies DOJ bid to release Epstein grand jury transcripts, FOX News, (July 23, 2025)
U.S. District Judge Robin Rosenberg rejected the DOJ’s request to release grand jury records, calling it legally insufficient. Former Assistant U.S. Attorneys explained that grand jury materials are sparse by design—often just enough to secure indictments, and in this case, would contain little more than a few dozen pages on Epstein alone, offering no new insight into alleged co-conspirators.
Trump administration releases FBI records on MLK Jr. despite his family’s opposition, PBS News, (July 21, 2025)
The DOJ released over 240,000 pages of sealed FBI surveillance files on MLK, despite opposition from the King family. Trump had ordered the release earlier in the year as part of an executive order targeting JFK, RFK, and MLK documents.
Trump officials release FBI records on MLK Jr. despite his family’s opposition, The Guardian, (July 21, 2025)
Al Sharpton denounced the release as a distraction from the Epstein backlash. The Guardian also noted that the release coincided with rising pressure on Trump for failing to release the Epstein files.
Trump Envisions Jailing Obama, TIME (July 21, 2025)
Trump reposted a video depicting a fake arrest of Obama, captioning it with accusations that Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Joe Biden had committed “THE CRIME OF THE CENTURY!” and calling it “TREASON.” The article highlights Trump’s intensifying rhetoric and growing reliance on conspiracy theories as he faces political backlash.
Gabbard's Misleading 'Coup' Claim, FactCheck.org (July 23, 2025)
FactCheck.org analyzed Tulsi Gabbard’s viral video claiming the 2017 intelligence assessment was part of a treasonous coup orchestrated by Obama. The article clarifies that Gabbard misrepresented the documents and falsely claimed a contradiction with the official findings. It affirms that the 2017 assessment of Russian interference has been repeatedly upheld across multiple bipartisan investigations and administrations.
Donald J. Trump, Truth Social Post - Democrats “Illegally” Paid Celebrities for Endorsements, Truth Social, (July 26, 2025)
Trump accused the Democratic Party of illegally paying celebrities for endorsements, claiming Beyoncé received $11 million, Oprah $3 million, and Al Sharpton $600,000 “for doing nothing.” He insisted that paying for endorsements is illegal and called for prosecutions, stating, “They should all be prosecuted!”
Jon Blistein, Trump Says Beyoncé Should Be ‘Prosecuted’ Over Baseless Endorsement-For-Pay Claim, Rolling Stone, (July 28, 2025)
The article details how Donald Trump revived a debunked conspiracy that celebrities like Beyoncé, Oprah Winfrey, and Al Sharpton were illegally paid to endorse Kamala Harris during the 2024 campaign. It emphasizes that there is no law prohibiting payment for endorsements, as long as those payments are properly disclosed, and that the allegations have no evidentiary support.
Andrew Lownie, ‘The truth about Andrew would bury the Royal Family for good’: Warnings Epstein may have sold prince’s most intimate secrets to Putin — including videos — exposed in the devastating book royals tried to ban, Daily Mail (Aug. 2, 2025)
Based on the book "Entitled" by Andrew Lownie, the article reveals that Donald Trump was overheard producing a list of masseuses for Prince Andrew while the two discussed “p**y” at a social event. This account adds to a string of disturbing allegations about Andrew’s involvement with Epstein and the extent to which Trump actively facilitated or enabled access to women for Epstein’s inner circle.
Trump: If She Weren’t My Kid, I Might Date Her, FOX News, (June 4, 2006)
During a 2006 appearance on "The View," Donald Trump made headlines when he stated, referring to his daughter Ivanka, “If she weren’t my daughter, perhaps I’d be dating her.” The remark sparked widespread media backlash and public discomfort, as it added to longstanding concerns about Trump’s sexualized comments regarding his daughter.
Wendy Williams, Donald Trump and Ivanka Trump | The Wendy Williams Show | 2/27/13, The Wendy Williams Show (YouTube), (December 24, 2014)
In this resurfaced 2013 interview, when asked what he and his daughter Ivanka have most in common, Donald Trump responds, “Well, I was going to say sex,” prompting awkward laughter from the audience. The remark is one of several public instances in which Trump has made inappropriate or sexualized comments about his daughter.
The Daily Beast, Epstein Tapes: “I Was Donald Trump’s Closest Friend”, YouTube, (November 2, 2024)
This video contains audio of Jeffrey Epstein recorded by Michael Wolff, in which Epstein claims, “I was Donald Trump’s best friend for years. I was his only friend. He didn’t have any other friends.” The conversation suggests a decade-long close relationship between the two men, contradicting Trump’s later denials.
Fox 11 Los Angeles, Epstein pleads fifth in 2010 testimony on Trump question | FOX 11 LA, YouTube, (July 25, 2025)
This video features footage from Jeffrey Epstein’s 2010 deposition in which he repeatedly invokes the Fifth Amendment when asked whether he has ever socialized with underage girls in the presence of Donald Trump.
Madison Czopek and Gabrielle Lazor, What we know about the Trump-Epstein falling out, Politifact, (July 31, 2025)
The article confirms that Epstein’s Mar-a-Lago membership was marked as “closed” around October 2007, following allegations that he harassed the teenage daughter of another member. This is cited as one of the primary explanations for Trump’s supposed “falling out” with Epstein
Very comprehensive list you got there. Damning evidence that the right won’t read unfortunately.
If you got a lot of extra time, maybe compile a list of sex offenders and the like that are in Rump’s circles today. Another example of ‘birds of a feather..’
Thank you for all you do.
So important.
"And here’s another fun thing to think about: everyone assumes that Trump is covering up the Epstein files because those files reveal him to be some kind of pedophile. But what if the files instead reveal that Trump and Epstein were working together to launder Russian money? It’s hardly a secret that Trump’s real estate projects from the 1980s to early 2000s wre rife with Russian oligarch money - oligarchs buying apartments in Trump Tower, oligarchs lending the Trump Organization money to build hotels, and so on. If Epstein and Trump were friends who liked doing real estate deals with Russian money, it seems reasonably likely to me that they might have done some deals together."
https://cryptadamus.substack.com/p/epsteins-arrest-shook-the-blockchain