As Head of state Donald Trump offers brand-new information regarding his connection with Jeffrey Epstein, it’s elevating brand-new concerns regarding what he recognized and when regarding the departed investor and founded guilty sex wrongdoer.
The head of state remains to deal with reaction and concerns over his management’s handling of documents connected to Epstein, that passed away by self-destruction in 2019 while waiting for test on fees of sex trafficking small women.
Trump has actually stated he’s understood Epstein because the late 1980s however that they later on befalled and had not talked in 15 years at the time of Epstein’s apprehension in 2019.
Right here’s a comprehensive timeline of their connection, and what Trump has actually stated regarding the factor for their befalling.
November 1992:
Video clip reveals Trump with Epstein laughing and speaking at Mar-a-Lago event.
1993:
Previous Sports Illustrated swimwear version Stacey Williams affirmed that Trump searched her before Epstein when she saw Trump Tower. Trump refuted the complaints after Williams stepped forward with her cases in October 2024.
December 1993:
Epstein participates in Trump’s wedding event to Marla Maples, photos obtained by CNN program.
1993-1997:
Trump takes a minimum of 8 trips on Epstein’s personal jet, according to trip logs launched by the Division of Justice.
Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump as they posture with each other at the Mar-a-Lago estate, Hand Coastline, Florida, 1997.
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1997:
Trump was photographed with Epstein at a Victoria’s Secret “Angels” Celebration. Epstein was likewise photographed with Trump at Mar-a-Lago that year.
2000:
Trump and Melania were photographed with Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell at Mar-a-Lago.
Donald Trump and his partner, and fiancée previous version Melania Knauss, investor Jeffrey Epstein, and British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell posture with each other at the Mar-a-Lago club, Hand Coastline, Florida, February 12, 2000.
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2000:
According to Social Safety and security documents sent to the court throughout Virginia Giuffre’s character assassination situation versus Maxwell, Giuffre was used at Mar-A-Lago Club LLC in 2000 and made $1,866.50 throughout that fiscal year. The period and accurate days of her work at Trump’s club stayed in disagreement when the legal action resolved in 2017. Giuffre implicated Maxwell of hiring her while she was functioning as a locker-room assistant at Mar-A-Lago in 2000 and bringing her to Epstein’s home for a massage therapy. She declares that she at some point came to be a “teen sex servant” to Epstein, and a target of sex trafficking, starting at age 17, through both Epstein and Maxwell. Maxwell refutes the accusations.
October 2002:
Trump informs New york city Publication that Epstein is a “fantastic man” which they have actually understood each various other for 15 years. “He’s a great deal of enjoyable to be with. It is also stated that he suches as attractive ladies as high as I do, and a number of them get on the more youthful side,” Trump stated.
2003:
Trump supposedly sent out Epstein a “bawdy” letter that was consisted of in a publication created Epstein’s 50th birthday celebration, theWall Street Journal reported Trump refutes composing the letter, which he claims does not exist, and previously this month, adhering to the record filed a claim against the Journal for character assassination looking for a minimum of $10 billion in problems. Dow Jones claims it waits the Journal’s coverage.
2004:
Trump and Epstein apparently had a befalling after a competitors to buy a Hand Coastline manor called Maison de l’Amitie, according to the Washington Post.
2005:
Cops in Hand Coastline start examining Epstein after a 14-year-old records he molested her at his manor.
2006:
Epstein fingered on one state felony cost of solicitation of hooking.
2007:
Trump supposedly outlawed Epstein from Mar-a-Lago after Epstein supposedly appealed one more participant’s child, according to the 2020 publication “The Grifter’s Club” by investigatory press reporter Sarah Blaskey. The White Residence has actually stated in current declarations regarding Trump’s previous connection with Epstein that Trump kicked Epstein out of his club “for being a creep.” “The reality is that The Head of state kicked him out of his club for being a creep,” White Residence interactions supervisor Steven Cheung has actually stated.
2008:
Epstein pleads guilty to state fees in Florida, consisting of acquiring a kid for hooking and solicitation of hooking. The offer consists of a nonprosecution contract providing him resistance from feasible government fees. He is punished to 18 months behind bars.
2015:
Trump presses the Epstein conspiracy theory link asserting the participation of previous Head of state Expense Clinton on phase at CPAC, months prior to revealing his 2016 project. “Wonderful man. Obtained a great deal of troubles turning up in my viewpoint with the well-known island. With Jeffrey Epstein.” Clinton has actually refuted any type of misbehavior and has actually asserted he had no understanding of Epstein’s criminal activities.
February 2017:
Trump chooses Alexander Acosta, that was the united state lawyer that looked after Epstein’s 2008 appeal offer, for assistant of labor.
2019:
Epstein is jailed in New york city on government sex trafficking fees on July 6, 2019. He is located dead by self-destruction in his prison cell a month after his apprehension on August 10, 2019.
In this handout, the cup shot of Jeffrey Epstein, 2019.
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July 9, 2019:
Trump claims in the Oval Workplace that he hasn’t spoken with Epstein in 15 years which both had a “befalling.” He decreases to state why they quit speaking. Trump stated of Epstein at the time: “Well I recognized him like everyone in Hand Coastline recognized him … he was a component in Hand Coastline. “I was not a follower of his, that I can inform you. I was not a follower of his,” Trump stated.
Donald Trump offers stops briefly to respond to a press reporters’ concern in the Oval Workplace at the White Residence September 30, 2019 in Washington, DC.
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July 12, 2019:
Complying with Epstein’s apprehension, Acosta surrendered as Assistant of Labor in the middle of restored objection of his supposed messing up of the Epstein situation.
July 12, 2019:
Trump stated on the White Residence South Yard: “Yes. And I did have a befalling a very long time back. The factor does not make any type of distinction, truthfully. Yet I have not spoken with him in most likely 15 years or even more. I had not been a large follower of Jeffrey Epstein, that I can inform you.” He duplicated that he “tossed him out” of his Mar-a-Lago club, however really did not define when.
July 2020:
Maxwell is billed with government criminal activities for assisting hire minor women for Epstein and joining the misuse herself.
July 2020:
Trump claims “I want her well” in reaction to press reporter concerns regarding Maxwell fees, accusations she refutes.
August 2020:
Trump increases down when pushed regarding desiring Maxwell well, claiming in a meeting: “Yeah, I want her well … I would certainly want you well. I would certainly want a great deal of individuals well. Best of luck. Allow them show someone was guilty.”
December 2021:
A court convicts Maxwell of fees consisting of sex trafficking, transport of a small for sex, and conspiracy theory. She was punished to twenty years behind bars in June 2022.
July 28, 2025:
Trump stated that his connection with Epstein soured since Epstein poached some staff members after he clearly alerted him not to do so. “But also for years, I would not speak to Jeffrey Epstein. I would not speak since he did something that was improper. He worked with assistance, and I stated, ‘do not ever before do that once more.’ He swiped individuals that benefited me. I stated, ‘do not ever before do that once more.’ He did it once more. And I tossed him out of the area character non-grata. I tossed him out, which was it. I rejoice I did, if you need to know the reality,” Trump stated.
Head of state Donald Trump boards Flying force One at RAF Lossiemouth, Scotland, July 29, 2025.
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July 29, 2025:
Trump recommends he had a befalling with Epstein after he “swiped” girls from the Mar-a-Lago health spa, consisting of Giuffre. “I do not recognize. I believe she operated at the health spa, I believe so I believe that was just one of individuals. Yeah, he swiped her. And incidentally, she had no issues regarding us, as you recognize. None whatsoever,” Trump stated.
