Donald Trump has never had many close friends.
But the few he’s had have been disgusting creeps.
Take Jeffrey Epstein.
“I’ve known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy,” Trump told New York magazine in 2002. “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.”
Trump reportedly knew about Trump Epstein’s pedophilia.
He wasn’t repulsed by it.
He was amused by it.
https://www.msnbc.com/transcripts/the-last-word/2019-07-08-msna1251131
Epstein owned his own financial consulting firm and had wealthy and influential friends while trafficking in sex with under-aged girls. He was accused of having sex – and arranging for his friends to have sex — with underaged girls.
Unlike other pedophiles, Epstein had money and privilege and hired Allan Dershowitz, who negotiated a deal for Epstein with U.S. attorneys, including Alexander Acosta.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48913377
Yes, the same Alexander Acosta who would become President Donald Trump’s secretary of labor before resigning because of the Epstein scandal.
Epstein pled guilty to a felony charge of solicitation involving a minor. He was sentenced to 13 months in a county jail and given extensive time away from jail for work release.
https://apnews.com/article/epstein-maxwell-timeline-b9f15710fabb72e8581c71e94acf513e
Once Epstein was released, he told the New York Post: “I’m not a sexual predator, I’m an ‘offender.’ It’s the difference between a murderer and a person who steals a bagel.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48913377
In 2019, Manhattan federal prosecutors charged Epstein with sex trafficking and being part of a sex- trafficking conspiracy. He was accused, according to the New York Times, “of hiring dozens of girls as young as 14 to perform nude massages on him, at which point he would masturbate and touch their genitals with his hands or with sex toys.”
The newspaper said the girls were paid hundreds of dollars and were paid to recruit other girls, “creating a network of vulnerable victims,” the newspaper said.
Epstein hanged himself in a Manhattan jail in August 2019.
https://www.npr.org/2023/06/27/1184380805/jeffrey-epstein-suicide-department
