Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump: a chronology
President Donald Trump continues to face questions about Jeffrey Epstein, the multimillionaire sex offender who died in prison in 2019 while faced federal accusations of traffic by minor girls.
While the media reveals new information on the Epstein affair and his personal relationship for a very long time with Trump, the American president and his administration have tried to change the story.
Here is a quick guide to the Epstein saga and the way he crossed with Trump over the years.
1990
Trump, then a rich real estate developer, and Epstein, a healing fund manager, move in the same social circles of elite in Manhattan and Palm Beach, Florida, and become friends.
1992: Trump’s video of a Trump resort party shows the two men together.
1993: Epstein assists Trump’s marriage to Marla Maples, depending on the video and the photos obtained by CNN.
1993-97: Trump travels at least seven times on one of the private Epstein jets, according to the flight newspapers which finally become evidence in the prosecution. However, none of the flights will go to the private island of Epstein in the Caribbean.
Epstein had many rich and powerful friends and enjoyed sumptuous parties. In these images of Trump’s Mar-A-Lago house, Epstein is seen from women on the dance scene with the real estate magnate.
2000
Trump goes to national glory with his reality TV show The apprenticeWhile Epstein is accused of sexually abuse teenage girls.
2002: In a feature film on Epstein in New York magazine, Trump said that he had known Epstein for 15 years. “A great guy. He’s very fun to be with it,” said Trump. “It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are younger.”
2003: For its 50th anniversary, Epstein receives a book linked to leather containing friends. A message comes from Trump, with a outline drawing of a naked woman and the text suggesting that the two men share a secret, the Wall Street Journal said recently. Trump denied having written the letter and continued the newspaper for defamation.
President Donald Trump continues the Wall Street Journal and its owners, including Rupert Murdoch, after the newspaper reported that his name was on a 2003 birthday greeting for Jeffrey Epstein which included a sexually suggestive drawing and a reference to the secrets they shared.
One-25000: Trump and Epstein have a fall and the reasons are not clear. More recently, Trump said he had been launched by Epstein “taking people who worked for me” in Mar-A-Lago. Other accounts blamed a 2004 tender war on a manor in Palm Beach or Epstein to harass the daughter of a member of Mar-A-Lago in 2007.
2008: Epstein is the subject of an investigation to sexually abuse minor girls in his houses in Florida and New York from 2002 to 2005. He avoids federal prosecution and a potentially long prison sentence by pleading guilty to less significant state accusations of a minor, under a secret advocacy.
In an extraordinary audience, 16 women who say that Jeffrey Epstein assaulted them sexually in adolescence in adolescence shared their heartbreaking stories. One by one before a New York judge, they expressed the anger they feel towards the financier, who committed suicide this month while waiting for the trial.
2010
Trump’s life’s journey takes him to the White House, while Epstein suddenly ends in prison.
2017: Trump appoints Alexander Acosta to be his secretary at work. Acosta was the American lawyer who supervised the then secret advocacy of Epstein, revealed in 2018 by Miami Herald. He resigned in 2019, shortly after the federal prosecutors relaunch the criminal affair against Epstein.
In a newly non -sealed indictment, more details are revealed on the federal accusations against the American multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein. The financier would have exploited a ring of sex traffic in which he sexually abused dozens of minor girls, allegations that have circulated around the politically connected businessman for years.
2019: On July 8, before the Manhattan Federal Court, Epstein was charged with sex trafficking. He pleads not guilty and is detained in a federal prison. The next day, a journalist asks Trump if he still thinks that Epstein is a great guy. Trump replies: “I don’t think I spoke to him for 15 years. I was not a fan.”
On August 10, Epstein died in detention. His death is considered to be suicide.
The weeks of the death of the financier Jeffrey Epstein after being charged with accusations of sex trafficking have raised a range of questions on how a high -level prisoner could die in detention, while US President Donald Trump has retweeted not sustained affirmations on the death of Epstein. Epstein, who died by apparent suicide according to the officials, had pleaded not guilty.
2020
Despite Epstein’s death – Or maybe because of that – The questions about the scandal continue to swirl.
2023-24: During the presidency of Joe Biden, the main actors of the Magan movement of Trump made pressure for more details on the Epstein affair to make public. Some play the key role in Trump’s second administration: Vice-President JD Vance, FBI director Kash Patel and Attorney General Pam Bondi.
2025
February 21: One month after the inauguration of Trump, Fox News is invited to Bondi if the Ministry of Justice will publish the list of Epstein customers. “He is sitting on my desk at the moment to examine,” she replied, adding that a “truck” of evidence previously chosen was being examined.
July 7: The Ministry of Justice announces that no more files related to the Epstein survey will be published and declares that no list of its customers exists. This makes some supporters of Maga, but both on social networks and in exchanges with journalists, Trump tells people to stop talking about Epstein.
President Donald Trump has produced a series of controversial publications on social networks, some political scientists saying that it is probably a tactic to divert the attention of the so -called Epstein files.
July 23: The Wall Street Journal reports that Trump had been informed in May that his name is among many that appear in Epstein files. The newspaper notes that this does not indicate any reprehensible act by Trump.
August 2: Federal prison officials say that the former Epstein girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, serving a 20 -year sentence for sexual trafficking, was transferred to a minimum security prison camp. This occurs just a few days after Maxwell met the American deputy prosecutor Todd Blanche, previously one of Trump’s personal lawyers.
US President Donald Trump seemed to be sympathetic to Ghislaine Maxwell when he was asked on Tuesday the British worldly, accused of having helped the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Somodevilla chip photo / Getty Images
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