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Donald Trump wants to know how to leave Jeffrey Epstein.

The president has repeatedly professed the desire to move from the questions. on whether it is included in the Archives of the Department of Justice that describes the investigation of Epstein’s sexual trafficking positions. However, Trump has provided apparently conflicting information about his relationship with Epstein, helping to maintain a scandal that has harassed him more than any other, although his friendship with Epstein ended more than two decades ago and Epstein died in a Manhattan cell six years ago.

The White House has insisted for a long time that Trump and Epstein’s friendship ended after the president expelled Epstein from Mar-a-Lago At some point Being a “disgusting”, although the previous reports suggested that their friendship ended years before, when Trump beat Epstein for a piece of property in Palm Beach, Florida.

Trump, when he spoke with journalists who traveled with him to the United Kingdom on Monday and Tuesday, gave another explanation for his break.

“He stole people who worked for me,” Trump told reporters on Monday during a meeting with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer. “I said: ‘You never do that again.’ And he did it again.

On Tuesday, aboard Air Force One, Trump suggested that it was possible for Virginia Giuffre, an outstanding accuser of Epstein who died of suicide last year, was among the employees that Epstein “stole”. In 2000, Epstein Confidant Ghislaine Maxwell recruited Giuffre to be Epstein’s masseuse while Giuffre worked in Mar-A-Lago, which led to years of abuse.

“I think she worked at the spa,” Trump said. “I think so. I think that was one of the people. He stole it.” He added: “She had no complaints about us, as they know. None at all.”

Each new comment that Trump makes about Epstein leads to another series of stories illustrated by the president’s many photos with his former friend. The text often contains Trump spooky praisesince 2002, for the deceased sexual predator: “It is very fun to be with him. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as well as me, and many of them are on the youngest side.” The stories could also notice that Trump flew repeatedly on Epstein’s plane, although they generally do not mention that Trump and Epstein have been represented by Alan Dershowitz or Alex Acosta, the federal prosecutor who left Epstein out of the hook, ended up as an official of the Cabinet in the first Trump.

It is not news that Trump and Epstein were friends. It wasn’t even news in 2015 when Trump released his political career for the first time. But Epstein’s death in Trump’s first term created a new layer of conspiracy theories that laid the foundations for what is happening now.

Pam Bondi, Trump’s attorney general, He said in February He had the mythical “customer list” of Epstein sitting on his desk, building exaggeration to unmask exactly the type of elite sex prophesied by Qanon’s main lights. The posterior of the Department of Justice statement This month, there are not a list of customers, nor a blackmail scheme, no one else to load with crimes and that “no more dissemination would be appropriate or guaranteed” was a shocking investment even for Trump standards.

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Trump’s management of Epstein’s research is now among its less popular actions in public surveys, even if the members of both parties are skeptical that it will significantly change how Americans feel about Trump. An Economist/Yougov survey published on Tuesday found that 61% of Americans disapproved their management of Epstein archives.

The same survey also found a plurality of Americans now believe that Trump somehow participated in some way in Epstein’s crimes: 46% believe they were, while only 32% believe it was not. Another 23% is not sure in any way. (Trump’s name is in the archives, which probably covers bumps of judicial records and private data seized by the FBI, would not indicate irregularities).

Trump has previously spoken about the search for EPStein of the Mar-A-Lago staff that leads to his fall, but in a way that emphasized Epstein’s bad behavior instead of simply complaining about losing employees.

In 2007, in the midst of the consequences on Epstein’s first arrest, the New York Post reported that Mar-a-lago had forbidden Epstein from the club, although the story did not say when the prohibition was imposed.

“I would use the spa to try to acquire girls. But one of them, a masseuse of about 18 years, tried to make things do,” said a person identified as “a source” to the post that year. The story added that Epstein himself denied that he was prohibited and said he had been “recently invited to an event there.”

Sam Nunberg, former Trump assistant, told Washington Post in 2019, after Epstein had been arrested for federal positions, who had questioned the president about his relationship with Epstein in 2014, when Trump was considering an offer from the White House.

“Trump told Nunberg that Epstein had recruited a young woman who worked in Mar-A-Lago to give him massages,” the post said. “Nunberg said Trump told him that he issued the edict against Epstein years before police investigation was made public.” History said that the last known communication between the two men was the voice emails that Trump left Epstein shortly after overcoming it for a property in front of the sea in November 2004, Approximately four years after time, Victoria Giuffre said she had been recruited as Epstein’s masseuse.

The White House did not immediately answer a question about whether he could offer a more precise timeline of the president’s division with his former friend.

Republicans in Congress are not helping Trump bury history. A handful of Republicans from the House of Representatives have supported efforts to reach Epstein archives through legislative maneuvers and citations.

While the president of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson (R-La.) Began the summer break of the camera one day earlier last week to avoid part of the drama, apparently cannot cancel the surprising impulse led by representative Thomas Massie (R-Ky) to force a vote on the legislation that releases the files. And three Republicans in the House Supervision Committee – representatives Brian Jack (Georgia), Scott Perry (Pa.) And Nancy Mace (SC), joined the committee’s democrats last week to move to cite the Department of Justice for the documents.

And even when some Democrats care, history is a distraction of the most politically effective attacks against the unpopular internal policy legislation of the Republican Party, party leaders are doing everything possible to maintain history in the news: the leader of the Senate minor Epste

“Whatever in Epstein’s archives is clearly worrying enough for Donald Trump to be scared,” said Schumer on the Senate’s floor. “If that is the case, our adversaries could certainly be interested in trying to use this information to damage the United States and Americans.”