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Newly discovered photos released by CNN on Tuesday showed Jeffrey Epstein attending President Donald Trump’s second wedding in 1993, at a time when the president’s lengthy association with the convicted sex offender is facing renewed scrutiny following a Wall Street Journal report last week that Trump’s name and signature appeared on a sexually suggestive birthday card presented to Epstein on his 50th birthday in 2003.
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Trump and Epstein met around the time Trump bought Mar-a-Lago in 1985, when Epstein was also living in Palm Beach, according to Trump, who told New York magazine in 2002 he had known Epstein for “15 years,” calling him a “terrific guy,” and adding “it is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”
Trump and Epstein were spotted laughing together at a party Trump threw at Mar-a-Lago, according to NBC footage of the event unearthed in 2019.
At a “calendar girl” party at Mar-a-Lago where Trump invited just two other guests, Florida businessman George Houraney and Epstein, Houraney’s girlfriend at the time, Jill Harth, said Trump forcibly kissed and fondled her, restrained her from leaving a bedroom and alleged Trump crawled into bed with another 22-year-old woman at the party in a 1997 lawsuit Trump settled the lawsuit with Harth (he has denied her allegations), The New York Times reported.
Trump flew on Epstein’s private jets four times in 1993, according to flight logs made public during Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial, The New York Times reported.
Photos released by CNN showed that Epstein attended Trump’s 1993 wedding to Marla Maples—his second wife—at the Plaza Hotel in New York. A few months before the wedding another photo published by CNN showed Epstein and Trump together at the opening of the Harley Davidson Cafe in New York.
Trump flew on one of Epstein’s private jets, according to the flight logs.
Epstein reportedly called Maria Farmer—who has accused Epstein and Maxwell of sexual assault—to his New York office late at night, where Trump then arrived and “started to hover over” Farmer, who was in her mid-20s at the time, and “stared at her bare legs” before Epstein said, “No, no. She’s not here for you,” Farmer reportedly told the FBI, according to The New York Times.
Trump took another flight on an Epstein jet, the flight logs say.
Trump took a seventh flight on one of Epstein’s jets.
Trump and Epstein were photographed standing near each other at a Victoria’s Secret “Angels” party, according to a Getty image of Trump posing with model Ingrid Seynhaeve that shows Epstein in the background.
A video released by CNN showed Trump and Epstein laughing and chatting with each other at another Victoria’s Secret event.
Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre was working at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort when she was recruited by Maxwell to work as Epstein’s personal masseuse and was groomed by the two to provide sexual services for Epstein and his wealthy circle, according to a deposition Giuffre gave that was made public in 2019.
Trump allegedly gave Epstein the birthday card that said “may every day be another wonderful secret,” according to the Thursday report in the Wall Street Journal, which the president denies.
Trump and Epstein had a falling out when Trump outbid him for a Palm Beach mansion, according to a Washington Post report.
Trump’s name appeared circled in Epstein’s “little black book” of 1,571 personal contacts, which spanned 97 pages of names, numbers and addresses of Epstein’s associates, including high-powered figures such as Prince Andrew and Ehud Barak, whose names were among about 38 also circled, according to a copy of the document published by Gawker in 2015.
“I knew him like everybody in Palm Beach knew him,” Trump told reporters from the Oval Office in 2019 when Epstein was arrested. “I was not a fan of his, that I can tell you.”
Trump wrote Epstein a typewritten letter that also included a drawing of a naked woman and referenced a “wonderful secret” between the two for Epstein’s 50th birthday in 2003, according to a Thursday report in the Wall Street Journal, which reported that it reviewed the note. The report comes as Trump has faced backlash from his base over the past two weeks after the Justice Department announced it wouldn’t release any additional information on its Epstein probe, despite some previous suggestions from top law enforcement officials that it would. The text of the note allegedly reads: tk
Trump’s allies rallied behind him in the wake of the Journal report, with some claiming the alleged text doesn’t sound like the president and others alleging the story was a coordinated attack by Democrats.
Trump ordered Attorney General Pam Bondi to release “pertinent” records from grand jury testimony in Epstein’s case amid criticism of the Justice Department’s handling of the Epstein probe.
Epstein died by suicide in 2019 in his Manhattan jail cell while awaiting trial on federal charges of sex trafficking minors to his wealthy friends and associates. Trump is among a long list of Epstein’s high-profile associates, including billionaire Les Wexner, Prince Andrew and former President Bill Clinton. Many of Trump’s MAGA allies have pushed conspiracies about Epstein through the years, including that he was killed, rather than died by suicide, and kept an alleged list of high-profile clients. The Justice Department said last week that no such list exists and reiterated that Epstein died by suicide.
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