Trump’s attitude toward women has never been clear. As a businessman preparing for publicity, he was always keen to describe his conquests, real and imagined, for the benefit of gossip columnists and talk show hosts. Since he became a politician, the picture has become clearer. About two dozen women have publicly accused the president of various forms of sexual misconduct. (He has always denied these accusations.) In 2023, a New York jury awarded writer E. Gene Carroll filed a $5 million civil judgment against him for defamation and sexual assault. She accused Trump of assaulting her in the mid-1990s in the dressing room of the Bergdorf Goodman department store in New York. (Trump denied Carroll’s account and called on the Supreme Court to overturn the ruling.)
On Tuesday, as the Justice Department continued to release a trove of documents and photographs known collectively as the Epstein Files, some, but hardly all, major media outlets reported on letter Jeffrey Epstein allegedly wrote it to Larry Nassar, the former USA Gymnastics team doctor who abused hundreds of female athletes and pleaded guilty in 2018 to seven counts of first-degree criminal sexual assault. The letter was postmarked August 13, 2019, for three days after Epstein committed suicide in his Manhattan prison cell. The handwritten text reflects disdain for Trump and alludes darkly to his past. While the three men shared “a love of young, nubile girls,” Epstein wrote, and the president “liked kidnapping,” only Epstein and Nassar “ended up snatching things in the regime’s mess halls. Life is unfair.”
The presence of a message in the 2023 message has been cited before news agency. But is this real? There is no reason to believe that this is so. Julie K. Brown, Miami Herald An investigative reporter who has been working on the Epstein case for many years, Written on X“This is questionable to me, largely because Jeffrey Epstein didn’t know how to spell. It doesn’t seem to fit the way he wrote either. Plus, it actually looks like a woman’s handwriting.” Ministry of Justice later It was announced in X “The FBI has confirmed that this alleged letter from Jeffrey Epstein to Larry Nassar is fake.”
The case for this president’s indecency does not require a questionable letter to be put into evidence. As we continue to sift daily through the accumulated detritus of Trump’s record and resume, we continue to live with the idea that somehow, somewhere, a document or detail will emerge so hideous, so devastating, that the country will finally rise as one to declare the end of this presidency. Just another case of sexual assault; cruel and illegal deportations; From financial self-dealing. Just another indulgence in racism and anti-Semitism Maga camp; Another heinous insult directed at a foreign leader or correspondent; Another violation of constitutional and institutional norms.
There has already been a mountain of accurate reporting about Trump’s attitude toward women and the close relationship between the president and Epstein. It is among the best and most comprehensive accounts published last week in… times. Nicholas Confesore and Julie Tate explored countless documents and interviewed more than three dozen former Epstein employees, as well as victims. They described the relationship as having a shared physical interest.
“Neither man drank or did drugs. They pursued women in a game of ego and dominance. Women’s bodies were currency,” Confessor and Tate wrote. “For nearly two decades, as Mr. Trump cut a swath through party precincts in New York and Florida, Mr. Epstein was perhaps his most reliable wingman. During the 1990s and early 2000s, they toured Mr. Epstein’s Manhattan mansion and Mr. Trump’s Plaza Hotel, at least one of Mr. Trump’s casinos in Atlantic City and both homes in Palm Beach. They visited each other’s offices and spoke frequently on the phone, according to other former employees. Epstein’s employees and the women who spent time at his homes with other men, Mr. Epstein might discuss tax shelters, international affairs, or neuroscience. And with Mr. Trump, he was talking about sex.
This clip is the “bulletin board” of the article, the thesis, and is heavily supported by multiple sources detailing their relationship, how Trump regaled Epstein over the phone with “tales of his sexual exploits,” and how Epstein delighted in having his befuddled aides listen on speaker phone. Confessor & Tate cited the recollections of a former Epstein aide, who recounted “one call in the mid-1990s in which the two men discussed how much pubic hair a particular woman had, and whether there was enough for Mr. Epstein to brush his teeth. In another call, Mr. Trump told Mr. Epstein about having sex with another woman at a pool table.”