Epstein, Trump and Wall Street Journal
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Trump, Jeffrey Epstein and Grand Jury
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Trump and his administration recently faced scrutiny over their handling of Epstein’s sex abuse case after building up hype for the files’ release — only for the Department of Justice and FBI to say there was no evidence Epstein was murdered in jail, nor did he have a so-called “client list.”
"All the work that we did to tell the world what happened to us, it’s all being erased," victim Danielle Bensky said.
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When Epstein was deposed in 2016 and was asked under oath if he ever socialized with Trump in the presence of minor girls, he claimed his Fifth Amendment right to not incriminate himself and refused to answer. (He invoked his Fifth Amendment rights at least 600 times during this deposition.)
Donald Trump was friendly for at least 15 years with Jeffrey Epstein, the multimillionaire financier and convicted sex offender who died in prison in 2019.
The Justice Department said unsealing grand jury transcripts related to Epstein's case is necessary given "longstanding and legitimate" public interest in the case.
President Donald Trump sued the Wall Street Journal, seeking at least $10 billion in damages, after the newspaper described a letter he allegedly sent to Jeffrey Epstein in 2003.
For nearly 15 years, the two men socialized together in Manhattan and Palm Beach, Fla., before a falling out that preceded Mr. Epstein’s first arrest.
And yet, by this point, many of Trump’s supporters had established that they still care very much about Epstein, and were not willing to move along. Elon Musk—who, while in the process of blowing up his relationship with the President,
The FBI allegedly instructed agents to “flag” any mention of President Donald Trump while reviewing files related to Jeffrey Epstein.