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littlemissmartypants

(34,381 posts)
Wed Aug 13, 2025, 06:50 PM Aug 2025

Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein's relationship: A visual timeline

Aug 12, 2025

By
Em Steck, Andrew Kaczynski, Bob Ortega, Allison Gordon, Jhasua Razo, Maya Blackstone

(Photo Illustration Alberto Mier/CNN/Getty Images)

They flew together on a private jet, partied
side by side at Mar-a-Lago, appeared at
Victoria's Secret runway shows, and
reportedly dined with royalty at a luxury
Upper East Side townhouse.

Their names appear together in flight logs,
legal filings, phone messages-and in
photo after photo in the moneyed world of
Palm Beach and Manhattan.

President Donald Trump has long tried to
distance himself from Jeffrey Epstein, the
billionaire sex offender who died in a
Manhattan jail cell in 2019 while awaiting
trial on sex trafficking charges. Trump has
called him a "creep," insisted he was "not a
fan," and said that before Epstein's death
they hadn't spoken in years.

Yet a comprehensive CNN review of court records, photographs, interviews, and other public documents paints a portrait of an enduring relationship until the mid-2000s, when Trump says he broke it off. Trump now repeatedly downplays his past friendship with Epstein, even as new material continues to surface.
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https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/12/politics/trump-epstein-relationship-timeline-invs-vis
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Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein's relationship: A visual timeline (Original Post) littlemissmartypants Aug 2025 OP
That's great. Bookmarking. Scrivener7 Aug 2025 #1
Don't forget Blue Owl Aug 2025 #2
Ok... littlemissmartypants Aug 2025 #4
K & R malaise Aug 2025 #3
Thanks, malaise. I really hope more people will take a look at it. 🙏❤️ littlemissmartypants Aug 2025 #5
Keep it alive malaise Aug 2025 #6
UK bus stop. No text... JoseBalow Aug 2025 #7

Blue Owl

(59,631 posts)
2. Don't forget
Wed Aug 13, 2025, 07:05 PM
Aug 2025

to search "Trump Epstein" on every search engine you can -- Google, Bing, Yahoo, Dogpile, Brave, Duck Duck Go, etc. etc. etc.

littlemissmartypants

(34,381 posts)
4. Ok...
Wed Aug 13, 2025, 08:48 PM
Aug 2025
https://democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=20558698

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