As the Jeffrey Epstein files keep flowing into the public sphere, many are combing through them to figure out exactly what kind of relationship the convicted child sex offender had with President Donald Trump. Turns out, Trump’s former wife, Marla Maples, thought it was too close all the way back in the mid-1990s.
As serious allegations of Trump conspiring with Epstein to rape a woman continue to splash across the internet, the president keeps insisting that, at that point in time, Epstein was just a popular guy and that their closeness is being overstated by the press. According to Trump, this entire saga is just another Democratic plot to undermine his administration, despite the opposition having many other weak points that are far less speculative.
