The Epstein Client-in-Chief

8 Jul 2025 •

29 truths about Trump and Jeffrey Epstein you won't hear from Pam Bondi

Trump is the first President in history to prove he could rape someone on Fifth Avenue and still win the popular vote.

"When you're a star they let you do it" — Donald Trump, 2005

He's a serial — and self-confessed — sex predator who famously bragged to Howard Stern (when discussing then-18-year-old Lindsay Lohan) about the joys of sex with "deeply troubled women" and his habit of gleefully abusing his role as a beauty pageant owner to ogle underage girls in a state of undress.

"I sort of get away with things like that"—Donald Trump, 2005

Trump's affair with an adult film star led him to commit crimes big enough to steal the 2016 election and provable enough to see him convicted on 34 felony counts.

But the one thing he doesn't want the MAGA faithful to know is the extent of what transpired during the years he was palling around with Jeffrey Epstein, the world's most notorious sex trafficker.

"I’ve known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy... It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side" — Donald Trump, 2002

For years, MAGA World has clamored for the release of "The Epstein Client List," convinced that it would reveal heinous crimes committed by the likes of Bill Clinton and Bill Gates. Throughout, the MAGA faithful have clung steadfastly to the cultish belief that, when the truth is finally revealed, King Donald of Mar-a-Lago — despite being accused in 2016 of raping a 13-year-old girl at Epstein's NY home in 1994 — would be fully absolved.

In June 2024, Trump appeared to panic when the Fox & Friends weekend crew (Pete Hegseth included) asked him if he would, if re-elected, release the Epstein Files.

By September, on the Lex Fridman podcast, Trump handled the Epstein question more nostalgically, fondly remembering his longtime friend as "a hale and hearty type of guy" with a lot of "nice assets" he could "throw around." (Comments that no one in the mainstream media thought to ask more about.)

By February 2025, Pam Bondi, President Trump's new Attorney General was facing "mounting pressure from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle to release" Epstein's alleged "client list."

"It's sitting on my desk right now to review" — Attorney General Pam Bondi, discussing the Epstein Client List with Fox News, February 2025

A month into Trump 2.0, Bondi told Fox News she had all the files on her desk and Trump was gung-ho to see them released.

Trump lawyer Alina Habba was equally psyched that there would finally be "accountability," agreeing with Piers Morgan that the coming revelations would be "shocking."

"There were so many individuals that were hidden and kept secret... Now it's time for accountability... I really believe that now with Kash and Pam there will be accountability" — Trump lawyer Alina Habba to Piers Morgan, February 2025

Then four months went by.

When June rolled around, it was Elon Musk who tweeted the ugly truth:

"Donald Trump is in the Epstein Files. That is the real reason they have not been made public" — Elon Musk, June 2025

It wasn't just Elon Musk and other MAGA influencers demanding answers. Democratic Rep. Dan Goldman used Musk's tweet to re-up his demand for the unredacted release of all files containing Trump’s name, along with an explanation for all the stonewalling.

And then we got to July.

BREAKING NEWS: TRUMP ADMINISTRATION ANNOUNCES "THERE IS NO EPSTEIN CLIENT LIST"

MAGA influencers are outraged by the news, first reported by Axios, that the Trump Administration has concluded there is no Epstein Client List and there's definitely nothing to see regarding Epstein's incredibly suspicious "suicide" in 2019.

And it's not only Pam Bondi who has let the MAGA crowd down.

As Axios notes:

As social media influencers and activists, Kash Patel (now the FBI's director) and Dan Bongino (now deputy director) were among those in MAGA world who questioned the official version of how Epstein died.

On X, Elon Musk joined the likes of Jack Posobiec, Gunther Eagleman and Benny Johnson in expressing frustration and disbelief at the continued cover-up.

Keep reading below for more on why Trump is truly "The Epstein Client-in-Chief." But first a quick thank you to all who support this paywall-free newsletter and everyone who shares my articles on social media. If you enjoy this newsletter, please consider upgrading at this special offer rate if you can:

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29 Truths About Trump and Epstein You Won't Hear from Pam Bondi

The news that the Epstein Client List that was sitting on Pam Bondi's desk in February never really existed may seem like the end of the cover-up.

But many stubborn facts remain — supplemented by various claims and allegations, some of which are buttressed by contemporaneous reporting.

Donald Trump with children Eric and Ivanka in the company of Jeffrey Epstein

Here are 29 things we know about the relationship between Trump and Epstein:

Trump met Ghislaine Maxwell in 1989 at a party aboard her father Robert Maxwell’s yacht, two years before Robert Maxwell "fell off his yacht in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and drowned, a sensational death that was ruled accidental." Ghislaine Maxwell played a crucial role in giving her boyfriend Jeffrey Epstein "access to Trump’s world."
Trump flew on Epstein's private jet at least seven times. ("That's just the start of it," tweeted his niece Mary Trump.)
Trump lived a few blocks away from Epstein's NYC mansion and was a frequent attendee at the child trafficker's parties. In 2000, a porter who worked next-door to the Epstein mansion told a UK newspaper, “I often see Donald Trump and there are loads of models coming and going, mostly at night. It’s amazing.”
Epstein and Trump partied openly together in Florida, as proven by a 1992 tape from NBC News which shows Trump and Epstein entertaining a group of Buffalo Bills cheerleaders at Mar-a-Lago.
Trump was such a fixture at Epstein's Palm Beach home that he regularly ate in the staff kitchen.
In 1992, Trump arranged for a "calendar girl" competition in which 28 young girls were flown into Mar-a-Lago. When they arrived, the girls realized they had been tricked into putting on a private show exclusively for Trump and Epstein.
Trump was photographed with Epstein and/or Ghislaine Maxwell on multiple occasions.
If Trump never seemed to miss an Epstein party, here's one reason why: Epstein had 14 different numbers for Trump, his wife, Melania, and members of his staff in his "little black book."
Epstein allegedly introduced Trump to a 14-year-old girl at Mar-a-Lago in the 1990s.
Another woman, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, was recruited by Maxwell at Mar-a-Lago to give massages to Epstein when she was just 15. She later alleged "the paid massages often involved sex" and that "she was also instructed by Epstein and Maxwell to have sex with Epstein’s friends." Giuffre, a mother of three, died by suicide in April 2025.
Trump allegedly raped a 13-year-old girl at Epstein's NY mansion in 1995. The plaintiff in the case withdrew her complaint in late 2016 after receiving threats.
In 1997, Ghislaine Maxwell introduced Trump, reportedly for the first time, to a 20-year-old British model, Anouska de Georgiou. Soon after, the three flew to Mar-a-Lago for a "happy weekend," after which De Georgiou was installed in a Trump-owned apartment in New York City. In 2019, de Georgiou revealed she had been groomed and raped by Epstein for years while still a teenager.
Anna Malova was another of the women who, as Craig Unger wrote in Vanity Fair, "entered Trump’s orbit" and "ended up being associated with both Trump and Epstein, spending part of their time living in a Trump Tower condo and part in Florida, at Mar-a-Lago or one of Epstein’s homes." Malova lived for free in Trump Tower and was allowed to compete as "Miss Russia" at Trump's Miss Universe contest under dubious circumstances. In 1999, the 27-year-old also "flew on board Epstein’s Gulfstream, the so-called Lolita Express, with Maxwell and Prince Andrew."
In 2008, while George W. Bush was President, Jeffrey Epstein was given a sweetheart deal — behind the backs of victims — by Florida prosecutor Alex Acosta.
Epstein's 2008 plea deal was negotiated by another known Epstein associate, Alan Dershowitz, who made sure that everyone on the Epstein client list — including Trump and Dershowitz — became immune from prosecution.
In 2016, Epstein told his brother he had dirt that could destroy Trump.
During the 2016 campaign, Trump used his connection with National Enquirer to downplay his association with Epstein, while suggesting to others he had knowledge of future stories tying Epstein to Bill Clinton.
After Trump was elected, Epstein claimed he was the person who had introduced Trump to his third wife, the Slovenian-born glamour model Melania Knauss.
Epstein spoke to journalist and author Michael Wolff for about 100 hours in 2017. Epstein told Wolff he had been Trump's "closest friend" for more than a decade, and claimed that Trump was "functionally illiterate," liked to "fuck the wives of his best friends," and that the first time Trump slept with Melania was on the Lolita Express.
Epstein showed writer Michael Wolff photos of Trump sitting with topless young women on his lap. "There’s one I especially remember where there’s a stain, a telltale stain and on the front of Trump’s pants, and the girls are pointing at him and laughing," said Wolff in 2024.
In 2017, Trump inexplicably named former Epstein prosecutor Alex Acosta his Labor Secretary. Acosta then attempted to slash funding for sex trafficking victims by 79%.
In November 2018, a blockbuster Miami Herald report raised questions about the "sweetheart deal" Jeffrey Epstein received in 2007 from Florida prosecutor Alex Acosta? Why were all of Epstein’s co-conspirators let off the hook? Why did Trump later reward Acosta with a plum job as Labor Secretary?
In February 2019, a federal judge ruled that Acosta and federal prosecutors "broke the law when they concealed a plea agreement from more than 30 underage victims who had been sexually abused" by Epstein. These revelations forced Labor Secretary Acosta to resign and led to Epstein's arrest in NY in July 2019.
Epstein was now the world's highest profile prisoner, in the ultimate care of then-AG Bill Barr. Despite the fact Barr's father was the Dalton headmaster (with a sideline writing fantasy novels about teenage sex slaves in space) who, in the 1970s, gave Epstein his first entrée into Manhattan high society, Barr did not recuse himself from the Epstein case. And despite the fact that Epstein was housed in a facility that hadn't seen a suicide in more than 20 years, he was found dead in his cell just five weeks later.
The forensic examiner hired by Epstein's brother to observe the autopsy said: "I’ve not seen in fifty years where (injuries like these) occurred in a suicidal hanging case."
In Epstein court documents unsealed in 2024, Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort featured 13 times.
According to TIME, the documents stated that "Epstein forced a minor to have sex with the former Harvard law professor (Alan Dershowitz) multiple times. The documents also say that Dershowitz 'was an eye-witness to the sexual abuse of many other minors by Epstein and several of Epstein’s co-conspirators.'"
As The New York Post reported, one accuser "claimed former President Donald Trump allegedly had 'sexual relations' with one of her unnamed friends at the late pedophile’s New York home 'on regular occasions.'"
In October 2024, a new accuser came forward alleging that she had been the victim of a "twisted game" played by Trump and Epstein at Trump Tower in 1993. Former model Stacey Williams said that after she began dating Epstein he took her to meet Trump at Trump Tower. As soon as he saw her, Trump pulled Williams toward him and began groping her breasts, waist, and buttocks while she noticed the two men smiling at each other. Back on the street, Epstein berated her angrily for letting Trump do it. "I had this horrible pit in my stomach that it was somehow orchestrated," Williams told The Guardian. "I felt like a piece of meat."

While Trump tried to distance himself from Epstein after falling out with him (possibly over a real estate deal) in 2004 — and especially after his 2008 conviction — the record clearly shows they were close associates for more than 15 years.

Trump and Epstein were two peas in a pod, powerful men who used their status to exploit and abuse young women even, or especially, girls they knew to be underage.

During Trump's first term, a mountain of evidence was seized from Epstein's homes, including audio and video recordings, hard drives and CDs containing thousands of photos.

A few months into Trump's second term, Pam Bondi and Kash Patel say they have reviewed all that evidence and can now assure us there's no indication anyone else was involved.

So that's the end of it.

The party that has spent the past 10 years obsessing about groomers and pedophiles finally says it's time to move on.

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Further reading:

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