Trump's Mar-a-Lago admission raises questions about what he knew about Jeffrey Epstein
Of course, things don't always work as they should. The MAGA world, once in a tailspin over Trump's refusal to release more of the Epstein investigation records, seems wholly less interested in getting to the bottom of what the man who is now president knew.
Trump was good friends with Epstein in the 1990s. They moved in the same circles, attended the same parties, flew together on Epstein's plane, and in the US president's telling, shared a similar taste in 'beautiful women'.
Then they apparently fell out. The exact circumstances remain vague, but once the heinous allegations of sex trafficking were publicly ventilated and a disgraced Epstein faced charges, Trump was resolutely 'not a fan'.
In 2019, The Washington Post revealed the two men were pitted against each other when they competed to buy a waterfront property in Palm Beach, Maison de l'Amitie, in 2004. In 2007, The New York Post reported Epstein had been banned from the Mar-a-Lago.
These days, the White House says Trump banned Epstein from the club 'for being a creep'. That is the same reason he gave his former aide Sam Nunberg in 2014, before he first ran for president, according to the Post 's 2019 story.
Trump now says he knew Epstein 'stole' young women from the Mar-a-Lago spa, namely Virginia Giuffre, who escaped the clutches of Epstein and his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell by marrying an Australian she met in Thailand in 2002, and moving to Australia. Tragically, she took her own life earlier this year.
The question he hasn't been asked, and therefore hasn't answered is: what did he think Epstein was 'stealing' these young women for? Trump suggests he was upset about Epstein depriving him of his employees.
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