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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Sidney Blumenthal

Trump cannot dispel the ghost of Jeffrey Epstein

trump with epstein in 1997
‘All the president’s men–and women–have stoked the Epstein plot.’ Photograph: Davidoff Studios Photography/Getty Images

Some enchanted evening, Donald Trump saw a stranger across a crowded room.

It is likely that there is hardly anyone living who knows exactly under what glowing lights Donald Trump met Jeffrey Epstein, except perhaps Trump himself and Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s former girlfriend who is serving a 20-year prison term for helping to procure minors for sexual abuse. Trump said in an interview in 2002, when his Epstein relationship was still tight, that it had been a 15-year mutual admiration society. Epstein was “a terrific guy” and “a lot of fun to be with”, and “likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side”. Epstein described himself as “Donald’s closest friend for 10 years”.

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