Ex US President Trump on Epstein’s list of associates, Mar-a-Lago visit detailed

Former President of the United States and the 2024 Republican frontrunner, Donald Trump, has been named as one of the ‘known associates’ in the now-unredacted court document detailing the victims’ testimonies from the lawsuit brought against disgraced American financier Jefferey Epstein. Trump’s name found mention in Epstein’s ‘secret’ contact list that was published by the court alongside other powerful and influential figures such as Britain’s Prince Andrew and the 42nd US President Bill Clinton.

In the previously blacked-out secret court files and record dumps consisting a slew of accusations against the influential personas, Trump’s connection with the late sex offender Epstein emerged among at least 150 other famous colleagues. The confidential material, previously unsealed, is a part of the lawsuit that Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre brought against his longtime accomplice, the British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell.

All wealthy and famed figures, including Britain’s Prince Andrew, the late ex New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, billionaire Glenn Dubin, and the late model scout Jean-Luc Brunel denied any links with Epstein’s sex trafficking scandal.

Mar-a-Lago named over 13 times

Trump, the former American leader and the 2024 hopeful, isn’t prominently accused of any criminality in the unsealed court material that were released as part of victim Giuffre’s defamation case. Epstein’s partner Maxwell was convicted of five charges including sex trafficking a minor and was sentenced to 20 years in prison.

Financier Epstein, then 66, was dogged by accusations of sexual trafficking and abuse of girls and women. He died by suicide in the Manhattan’s Metropolitan Correctional Center, an autopsy in 2019 established. Epstein was denied bail on federal sex trafficking charges, and his sudden demise enraged his accusers who claimed he had maintenance of high profile connections during his trial on charges of solicitation of prostitution including of a minor.

Publicly released court documents from 2015 civil lawsuit, that do not unveil Epstein’s enablers, show that Trump and Epstein shared a longstanding relation in “length and depth,” a matter of contestation among Trump’s supporters.

In testimonies of Epstein’s victims, Trump’s Florida club Mar-a-Lago is named over 13 times, but an interview of Maxwell reveals that she may not have been a member of Trump’s resort. Epstein’s accomplice, although, acknowledges that she is "pretty sure" that she visited Trump’s resort in the year 2000. Trump also often travelled on Epstein’s private jet—at least seven times— the flight logs and the 2016 deposition, a transcript by one of the accusers who testified, reveals.

Victim hired as 'locker room attendant' at Trump’s at Mar-a-Lago

Epstein’s victim, Giuffre, in her testimony reveals that she was employed as ‘locker room attendant’ for the spa area at Trump’s at Mar-a-Lago. A young girl identified with just her pseudonym Jane, one of the four accusers who was a minor, claims that at the age of just 14 she was introduced to the ex-American President Trump at his Mar-a-Lago residence at Palm Beach, Florida in 1990s. Trump bought Mar-a-Lago in 1985.

"Mr. Epstein introduced you to Donald Trump, correct?” Maxwell’s defines attorney interrogated. “Yes” she replied in her testimony in the court documents. She, although, did not accuse the Republican leader of any sexual misconduct or inappropriate behaviour.

In an American broadcast in 2019, a Florida businessman George Houraney claimed that Trump requested to organise a "calendar girl" competition at Mar-a-Lago in 1992. But that he was left astonished after the only guests that arrived at the club were Epstein and Trump.  "I arranged to have some contestants fly in. At the very first party, I said, 'Who's coming tonight? I have 28 girls coming.' It was him and Epstein."I said, 'Donald, this is supposed to be a party with V.I.P.s. You're telling me it's you and Epstein?’"the businessman told American newspaper.

In a separate interview with the New York Magazine, Trump showered praises on his friend Epstein, saying that the late sex offender was a ‘terrific guy.’

Epstein accuser Johanna Sjoberg, who worked with him from 2001 to 2006, claims in her testimony that on one occasion after Epstein dined with popular American illusionist David Copperfield, he took her to Trump’s casino at Mar-a-Lago in Atlantic City. There, she was “lured away” to work as the spa attendant at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club, in order to become “masseuse” for Epstein.

“Great, we’ll call up Trump and we'll go to—I don’t recall the name of the casino, but—we’ll go to the casino,” the accuser really Epstein as saying, adding that the latter made a stopover for “few hours” at Trump’s Florida club due to the bad weather.  Sioberg travelled with Virginia Giuffre, who she says was too young to get in “because of an ID issue.”

“So she and I did not gamble,” the accuser spoke of the situation in her testimony, narrating her visit to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago.

Trump-Epstein fallout

While Trump and Epstein knew each other “socially” from Palm Beach in the 1990s, it is understood that the two had a “fallout” over real estate arguments. Trump later claimed that he “was not a fan” of the financier. Trump took Epstein’s private jets and the latter made efforts to ingratiate with Trump’s high profile contacts during the 2016 Republican presidential run. Epstein also held meetings with Trump’s onetime megadonor Peter Thiel and his real estate investor Thomas Barrack.

Epstein’s emails, correspondence and schedules unveiled by the court later show that he invited trump associates Thiel and Barrack to get-togethers with Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations, Vitaly Churkin, who died in 2017. He also allegedly met with his son, Max, then in business school and later hired at a Russian bank.

“Epstein knew things about Donald Trump that, if they had been revealed to the public, could have blown up the 2016 presidential race,” late pedophile’s younger brother said in an explosive interview with the New York Post after his father’s detention.