The president told reporters that he cut ties with Epstein after the pedophile āstoleā female workers from his exclusive Florida members club, but the revelation that Epstein was allegedly still a member of the club seven years after Epstein poached Virginia Giuffre from the spa at Mar-a-Lago in 2000 raises questions over Trumpās version of events.
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Trump Claims He Banned Epstein āBefore It Was CoolāāTimeline Says Otherwise
Palm Beach, FL ā In yet another dramatic twist in the never-ending saga of āDonald Trump vs. Reality,ā the former president has once again boldly claimed he ākicked Jeffrey Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago long before anyone else knew he was bad news.ā According to Trump, this decisive moral stand occurred sometime around the moment he invented the word ācovfefe.ā
During a recent rally, Trump told supporters, āI was the only one who had the guts to throw Epstein out of my club. Nobody else did it. I did it early. Very early. People were amazed. Some say it was the earliest ban in history.ā
Thereās just one problem: thatās not true.
The Receipts Public records and multiple reports, including a well-sourced 2002 profile in Vanity Fair (back when Trump was still on speaking terms with the publication), suggest Trump and Epstein remained cordial well after Epsteinās behavior was widely whispered about among the elite. In fact, Epstein was a regular guest at Mar-a-Lago, with Trump famously quoted as saying: āIāve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy. Heās 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.ā Ah yes, the telltale language of a man morally outraged.
Despite Trumpās insistence that he heroically ejected Epstein āsometime in the 90s, probably earlier, maybe even before I built Mar-a-Lago, who knows,ā multiple reports peg the actual incidentāreportedly involving a dispute over Epstein flirting with the daughter of a memberācloser to 2007. That just so happens to coincide with Epsteinās first major run-in with the law, which makes Trumpās claim sound less like principled foresight and more like āOh no, the yacht is sinkingātime to jump ship.ā
Revisionist History for Dummies Trumpās ability to rewrite his own timeline is nothing short of Olympic. He could make George Orwell blush. From claiming he opposed the Iraq War (he didnāt), to saying he saw āthousandsā of Muslims cheering in New Jersey on 9/11 (he didnāt), to asserting he won the 2020 election (he didnāt), Trumpās relationship with the truth is, at best, on a trial separation. His Epstein claim is just the latest entry in the ever-expanding āTrump Mythos,ā a rich fictional universe where Trump is always the hero, never the villain, and definitely never a guy who partied with Epstein years after everyone else started asking, āHey, whatās up with that guy?ā
Final Verdict Once again, Trump has proven that when faced with an inconvenient truth, heāll reach for a Sharpie and just draw a new one. As always, the truth is out thereājust not at Mar-a-Lago, and definitely not at Trump rallies. Coming up next: Trump insists he warned the Titanic about the icebergāpersonally.
I donāt think they know what twist means in the context they used it. This shit was extremely expected.