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The Epstein Files: Trump, Trafficking, and the Unraveling Cover-Up

Since the 1970s, 27 women and children have publicly accused Donald Trump of rape, kissing and groping without consent; looking under women's skirts; and walking in on naked teenage pageant contestants.

This post compiles everything known, leaked, and unsealed about Jeffrey Epstein’s network, with a special focus on Donald Trump’s connections, involvement, and reactions.

It's always the ones you suspect most.

TW: everything


TRUMP & EPSTEIN: TIMELINE & DEEP BACKGROUND

late 70s

early 80s

late 80s

  • Cathleen, a 15-year-old Swedish model, represented by Casablancas’ Elite Model Management said she met Trump in the mid-1980s at a party: “We had [agency parties] all the time, and [Trump] was there. I had no idea who he was,” she told us. “He came in with two girls from the agency and sat down at the other end to me. One of them was a Polish model. She must have been sixteen, seventeen, definitely no older than eighteen. He was all over her. Kissing her on her lips and neck and touching her.” [emphasis added] Cathleen said there were about four men at the dinner and about six models aged between fifteen and twenty — and that there was nothing unusual in that. “This happened every week,” she said of the dinners with older men. “You just have to show up…”

1989:

1990:

1991:

1992:

  • Trump directed Florida businessman George Houraney to organize a “calendar girl” competition at Mar-a-Lago, and after 28 female contestants were procured, revealed that the other guests were just “him and Epstein.”
  • A 16 year old Stacy Wilkes and a former Canadian contestant of the Trump sponsored 1992 “Elite’s Look of the Year” competition recalled: “Every time we changed, it was like Trump would find a reason to come backstage,” Wilkes says. A Canadian contestant from 1992 recalls similar incidents. “He’d come by and say, ‘Hey girls, are we ready?’” she says. “I remember thinking, what have I got myself into?”
  • NBC footage from that same year shows the two men partying together at the Palm Beach resort with cheerleaders for the Buffalo Bills and Miami Dolphins, laughing, chatting, and, in the case of Trump, pawing at women.

1993:

1993–1997:

1994:

1995:

1996:

1997:

1999:

For a comprehensive breakdown and context to these early years, please see "We All Knew About the Trafficking"-The Untold Story of Trump Model Management (Part 1)

late 90s

  • Jeffrey Epstein showed off photos of Donald Trump with “topless young women” sitting in his lap, the author Michael Wolff alleged. Epstein had about half a dozen pictures which showed Trump by the pool with multiple young women, Wolff claimed on his podcast They were taken in the “late 90s” at Epstein’s Palm Beach home, where he victimized dozens of underage girls along with his procurer, Ghislaine Maxwell.
  • Even without Epstein, it was pretty much known that Trump would ensnare vulnerable underage models via his model agency constructions, would invite them to parties at the Plaza Hotel, where they would be given drugs and he would then fuck some of them. I quote:
    • The girls were as young as 15, he says, and “over their heads, they had no idea, and they ended up in situations. There were always dramas because the men threw money and drugs at them to keep them enticed. It’s based on power and dominating girls who can’t push back and can be discarded. There’s always someone to pick them back up. Nobody wants to call home and say ‘Help me.’”
    • Trump would “go from room to room,” said the photographer, who added that “I was there to party myself. It was guys with younger girls, sex, a lot of sex, a lot of cocaine, top-shelf liquor” but no smoking. Trump didn’t approve of cigarettes.
    • Those men at these parties often knew each other. “It’s a small community,” the photographer says. “They exchanged information, facilitated each other. Trump was in and out. He’d wander off with a couple girls. I saw him. He was getting laid like crazy. Trump was at the heart of it. He loved the attention and in private, he was a total fucking beast.” [12]

2000:

  • Virginia Giuffre testified she was recruited at age 16 while working at Mar-a-Lago as a locker room attendant. Maxwell approached her while she was reading a massage book and offered her a job as Epstein’s traveling masseuse. This led to trafficking.
    • Trump later banned Epstein from Mar-a-Lago after another girl was allegedly assaulted.
    • Trump also wrote a letter of recommendation for Giuffre’s father.
  • Trump, his future wife Melania, Epstein and Maxwell were all photographed together at the club in 2000

2001:

2002:

  • In a interview with New York Magazine, Donald Trump said the following about Epstein: “I've known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy. He's a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side."

2003:

Trump allegedly authored a birthday letter to Epstein in the shape of a naked woman, with this dialogue:

Voice Over: There must be more to life than having everything.

Donald: Yes, there is, but I won’t tell you what it is.

Jeffrey: Nor will I, since I also know what it is.

Donald: We have certain things in common, Jeffrey.

Jeffrey: Yes, we do, come to think of it.

Donald: Enigmas never age, have you noticed that?

Jeffrey: As a matter of fact, it was clear to me the last time I saw you.

Trump: A pal is a wonderful thing. Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret

Trump’s signature appeared over the pubic area.

2004:

2005:

  • In a 2005 interview with Howard Stern, Trump boasted: I’ll go backstage before a show, and everyone’s getting dressed and ready and everything else. …You know, no men are anywhere. And I’m allowed to go in because I’m the owner of the pageant. And therefore I’m inspecting it. …You know, they’re standing there with no clothes. “Is everybody okay?” And you see these incredible-looking women. And so I sort of get away with things like that.

2006:

2008:

  • Epstein plea deal approved by Alex Acosta, Trump’s future Labor Secretary.
  • The deal was widely condemned as over-generous: Epstein received federal immunity, only served 13 months in county jail with work-release, and victims weren’t notified, violating the Crime Victims’ Rights Act. Miami Herald investigation confirmed misconduct.

2014-2016:

2015:

  • Gawker publishes the contents of Epstein's address book, redacting personal contact information. Ivana Trump, Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump's brother are included — as are 14 numbers associated with Trump himself, including numbers for Melania and Mar-a-Lago, and personal staff, suggesting a deeper level of familiarity.

2016:

2017:

2018:

  • Mark Epstein said that his brother told him, ““‘If I [Jeffrey] said what I know about both candidates, they’d have to cancel the [2016] election.’”
    • This was corroborated in a 2024 deposition by an Epstein associate, who claimed Jeffrey had compromising material on Trump involving “young women”.

2019:

2020:

  • Epstein's longtime confidante Ghislaine Maxwell is charged with conspiring to help Epstein abuse minors. The timeframe of the Maxwell allegations span 1994 to 1997.
  • Fox News airs a photo of Epstein and Maxwell in which Trump has been edited out.

2021:

  • Ghislaine Maxwell was tried in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York from  Nov  2021 to Dec  2021, when a jury found her guilty on five of six counts—including sex‑trafficking minors—and she was later sentenced on 28 June 2022 to 20 years in federal prison, a $750 000 fine, and five years of supervised release.

2022:

2023

  • A former Elite model files suit claiming Casablancas raped her at 15 and forced an abortion; Elite settles, then declares bankruptcy in 2003.
  • On May 9, 2023, a civil jury unanimously found Donald Trump guilty of sexually assaulting E. Jean Carroll, who accused him of raping her in a department store dressing room in the mid-1990s. During a 2022 deposition for the case Trump said, “[Carroll] indicated that she loved it, OK?”; and earlier was apparently unable to differentiate his wife at the time, Marla Maples, from that of Carroll in a photo of the three of them together in the 1990s. The jury awarded Carroll over $83 million in damages.
  • A 2023 investigation by Senator Wyden into Jeffrey Epstein's finances revealed that several high-profile Trump donors, including Leon Black and Peter Thiel, had significant financial ties to Epstein. This suggests an indirect financial network where the worlds of Trump's major political backers and Epstein's finances were closely linked.

2024:

2025:

There really seems to be an endless amount of dirt on this sleazebag. Some more overviews here as this post would end up as a book otherwise.

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