The group posted a 1997 photograph of Trump with late convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein:
“I’ve identified Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific man,” Trump informed New York Journal in 2002. “He’s numerous enjoyable to be with. It’s even stated that he likes lovely ladies as a lot as I do, and lots of of them are on the youthful facet.”
Epstein would later declare that he was Trump’s “closest pal for 10 years.”
Epstein was first arrested two years later and ultimately convicted of intercourse crimes. He was arrested once more in 2019, and died in custody in an obvious suicide whereas awaiting trial on allegations of trafficking underage ladies and different prices.
Trump and his allies campaigned in 2024 on releasing Justice Division recordsdata associated to Epstein. As soon as in workplace, nevertheless, his administration obstructed that launch, with Trump himself calling the recordsdata a “Democrat hoax.”
Congress in the end handed a regulation forcing the discharge of these recordsdata, one thing critics say the Trump administration has not totally complied with.