WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump has taken to boasting that he severed ties with Jeffrey Epstein after learning that the child sex trafficker had “stolen” staff from his country club — but has failed to mention that it took him seven years to do so. A 2021 book by journalists then with the Miami Herald, who were shown logs of Mar-a-Lago membership rolls, found that Epstein remained a member there until October 2007 — a full year after Epstein was indicted on a state prostitution charge and just after he had agreed to plead guilty in return for a shorter prison sentence and avoiding more severe federal charges entirely. Two of Epstein’s victims, meanwhile, expressed outrage that the federal government under Trump is ignoring them while working to protect him and other Epstein friends and associates as it works to quell outrage over Trump’s reluctance to release Epstein’s investigative files.
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Published at: 2025-08-05 21:10:46
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