Trump & Epstein: The Truth Emerges
It was a smear in 2016 and it’s a smear today.
By Roger Stone
With a judge ordering the release of documents regarding sex trafficker and pedophile Jeffrey Epstein this week, we have also seen a vicious attempted assault on President Donald Trump, distorting the facts about Trump’s “connection” to Jeffrey Epstein to distract from the disgraced billionaire’s very real connection to Bill and Hillary Clinton. If anything, the new revelations exonerate Trump.
Online Trump haters are exhuming a phony line of attack, misstating the history between Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein. It should be no surprise that such a narrative was previously used by Hillary Clinton and her flunkies to distract from the Clinton’s extensive and financially beneficial relationship with rapist and sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
That Trump knew and was at social gatherings with Jeffrey Epstein is accurate. Since 2021 it has been publicly known that Trump was only on Epstein’s plane once and that was with his wife Marla Maples and their daughter Tiffany. Trump never visited Epstein’s island, nor Epstein’s New York residence. Having reviewed all of the FAA records on Epstein’s plane when I wrote my book ‘The Clinton’s War on Women,’ I know that the Trumps were on Epstein plan only once.
The Epstein story is a twisted one. Palm Beach Police Chief Michael Reiter insisted that he gave the state’s attorney enough evidence from a six-month undercover investigation to charge Epstein with 35 incidents of child sex trafficking and multiple counts of rape of a minor. Chief Reiter was shocked when the state’s attorney filed the sweetheart plea deal that Epstein’s high-priced lawyers (including Roy Black, Gerald Lefcourt, Alan Dershowitz, and former U.S. Solicitor General Ken Starr) secured.
The State’s Attorney who gave Epstein a slap on the wrist immediately resigned and formed a private law firm which began immediately providing legal services to several of Epstein’s accomplices.
Trump broke with Epstein prior to Epstein’s prosecution in Florida. Epstein should have gone down for sex-trafficking. Instead, Epstein was allowed to plead to one count of solicitation—a shocking plea deal that required him to serve his 15 month sentence in the air-conditioned Palm Beach County jail, where he only had to stay in jail from 10 P.M. until 6 A.M, and where he often had his gourmet meals brought in.
The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s office operated more like Epstein’s personal security detail as they transported him during his daytime business activities or on his leisure time at his Palm Beach mansion.
When Palm Beach Police Chief Reiter took his concerns about the State’s Attorney’s soft plea deal with Epstein to the U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta, Acosta rubber stamped the state plea deal and sealed the record. After many years of litigation, The Palm Beach Post ultimately obtained the documents that proved that the Bush Justice Department instructed Acosta to give Epstein a pass. In preparation for his confirmation hearings in the U.S. Senate when he was appointed Secretary of Labor by President Donald Trump, Acosta told U.S. Senate staffers that if asked about his disposition of the Epstein case as U.S. Attorney, he would say that the DOJ told him that Epstein worked for the CIA and that the matter needed to be closed and the file legally sealed.
After serving his state sentence, Epstein essentially returned to the management of his blackmail and sex-trafficking operations—but for the dogged reporting of Julie K. Brown of The Miami Herald, whose exposure of the facts about Epstein caused his subsequent indictment and his questionable suicide.
Virginia Giuffre ( Roberts) is among the victims who sued Epstein for his sexual abuse. In her lawsuit deposition, she said she met billionaire Donald Trump once at Epstein’s Palm Beach mansion and that Trump was a “complete gentleman” who she never saw acting inappropriately. Through her attorneys, Giuffre also said that Trump was the only significant public figure within Epstein’s orbit who was helpful to her attorneys.
Brad Edwards, Giuffre’s attorney, had this to say about Trump:
“He (President Trump) is the only person, who in 2009, when I served a lot of subpoenas, on a lot of people – to some pretty connected people and I wanted to talk to them – He is the only person who picked up the phone and said ‘Let’s just talk, I’ll give you as much time as you want, tell you wha you need to know.’ He was very helpful in the information that he gave, and gave no information whatsoever that he was involved in anything untoward whatsoever – But had good information – That checked out – And that helped us and we didn’t even have to take a deposition from him.”
Trump turned down numerous invitations to Epstein’s hedonistic private island and his Palm Beach home. There is no evidence Trump did anything improper. Norma Foerderer, Trump’s longtime personal assistant, told me that Trump thought Epstein was “creepy.”
“The one time I visited his Palm Beach home, the swimming pool was full of beautiful young girls,” Trump told a member of his Club, Mar-a-Lago. “‘How nice,’ I thought, ‘he let the neighborhood kids use his pool.’” According to his personal security guard, Trump left Epstein’s home within 15 minutes of arrival, feeling uncomfortable with the strange ratio of men to much younger women.
Many of the Epstein-based smears against Trump that are now being recycled by Trump critics originated with the Clinton campaign. Epstein provided millions in seed funding for the Clinton Global Initiative, was a heavy donor to the Clinton Foundation. Bill Clinton visited Epstein’s island on at least 17 occasions, as well as being identified by FAA records as having been on Epstein’s plane on at least 26 occasions.
The Clinton Foundation provided one hundred percent of the funding for TerraMar, a nonprofit controlled by Epstein pimp Ghislaine Maxwell, which was utilized to hire young female interns to allegedly work on environmental projects while actually constituting a grooming pool of Epstein’s future victims.
Unlike the Clintons, Trump cut Epstein off after he heard about an inappropriate advance by Epstein toward a young woman who worked at the Spa at Mar-a-Lago, and Trump told security that Epstein was barred from the property. The Clintons continued to socialize and fundraise with Jeffrey Epstein after his state conviction. The Clinton Foundation actually took a donation from Epstein after he had a probable cause affidavit filed on him by Palm Beach Police in May of 2006. Trump cut Epstein off well before state charges were brought against the sex-trafficker.
The Clintons were desperate to distract from their own relationship with Epstein by trying to throw shade on Trump. Now, Trump’s political opponents are recycling the same trash.
It was a smear in 2016 and it’s a smear today.