WASHINGTON – An e mail written by Donald Trump’s once-close good friend Jeffrey Epstein suggests the 2 males maintained contact after Trump turned president, contradicting Trump’s oft-repeated declare that he minimize ties with the now-dead little one intercourse trafficker twenty years in the past.
The revelation is available in a Nov. 23, 2017, trade wherein Epstein discusses his plans for the approaching days with somebody described as “Faith Kates” in Epstein’s e mail contacts. The e-mail was amongst hundreds of paperwork launched by the Home Oversight Committee on Wednesday, which obtained them due to a subpoena of Epstein’s property.
Kates asks the place Epstein is spending Thanksgiving, and Epstein responds: “eva.”
Kates replies that “Glenn” can be there, however that he’s “such a snooze,” after which asks, “who else is down there?”
Epstein responds: “david fizel, hanson, trump.”
To which Kates responds: “Have fun!!!”
White Home spokesperson Abigail Jackson mentioned the e-mail chain was meaningless. “These emails prove literally nothing,” she mentioned, however declined to reply the precise query HuffPost posed, which was whether or not Trump had met with Epstein in November 2017.
Earlier Wednesday, White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt repeated that Trump had completed nothing improper and that he had banned Epstein from Mar-a-Lago, his Palm Seashore nation membership, due to his conduct.
It’s unclear who Religion Kates or David Fizel or Hanson are — or even when their names are spelled appropriately, given the copious misspellings in Epstein’s emails. It’s also unclear the place “down there” refers to, though each Epstein and Trump had residences in Palm Seashore, Florida, which by late November is totally into its social “season.”
Nov. 23, 2017, was Thanksgiving that 12 months, and Trump ― as he has been on many weekends and holidays from late October by mid-spring as president — was at Mar-a-Lago.
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Epstein communicated with others in Trump’s orbit effectively after the time Trump claims he broke off contact with him. In a March 9, 2016, trade with Trump confidante and actual property investor Tom Barrack, Barrack writes: “Hope ur good. Let’s catch up.”
Epstein responds: “send photos of you and child. – make me smile.”
Barrack is now the U.S. ambassador to Turkey.
This summer time, Trump started claiming that he ended his friendship with Epstein after he discovered that Epstein had been hiring employees away from Mar-a-Lago to affix what turned out to be Epstein’s underage intercourse trafficking ring.
“He did something that was inappropriate. He hired help. And I said, ‘Don’t ever do that again.’ He stole people that worked for me. I said, ‘Don’t ever do that again,’” Trump advised reporters throughout a $10 million taxpayer-funded golf trip to Scotland. “He did it again. And I threw him out of the place. Persona non grata.”
That hiring away started no later than 2000, nonetheless, which was when Epstein confederate and fellow intercourse trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell recruited Virginia Giuffre, then 16 years outdated, within the Mar-a-Lago parking zone. It took a full seven years earlier than Trump lastly ended Epstein’s Mar-a-Lago membership, which coincided with Epstein’s 2007 announcement that he would settle for a plea cut price to a state prostitution cost to keep away from federal expenses.
When HuffPost requested him why it took seven years to interrupt with Epstein, Trump mentioned: “I don’t understand your question.”
Curiosity within the Epstein case rekindled this spring and summer time when Trump’s Division of Justice, after claiming it could launch all of the investigatory information within the case in opposition to Epstein, abruptly reversed course and mentioned there was nothing else to launch. Not lengthy afterward, Maxwell was transferred with out clarification from a Florida jail to a “Club Fed” kind camp in Texas after assembly with a prime DOJ lawyer.
Epstein was discovered lifeless in his jail cell in 2019, a month after he was arrested once more, this time on federal intercourse trafficking expenses following a Miami Herald investigation into his 2007 plea deal.
Maxwell was convicted by a federal jury in 2021 and sentenced to twenty years in jail.
