Epstein was terrified of Trump, but could not "take him down"
if he could have...he would have done it
Jeffrey Epstein was in the Metropolitan Detention Center in New York City, on suicide watch, when his deceased body was found at 6:30 a.m. on August 10, 2019. Donald Trump was waking up to a day on the links at his Bedminster, New Jersey club. About 50 miles separated the two men who once palled around as Epstein plied his sickening brand of hospitality on the rich and powerful.
Faced with the certainty of a petition by House members demanding a release of the Epstein files, after nearly two months of delay by Speaker Mike Johnson, who refused to seat Rep. Adelita Grijalva, a Democrat, Republicans preemptively released about 20,000 pages of emails.
In one of the emails, written in 2018, Epstein fumes “I am the one able to take him down,” meaning Trump. “Dirty.” “F—king crazy.” “Borderline insane.” That’s how Epstein described the president.
Epstein and Trump had a falling out around 2004. Both men were competitive egotists, and they were aiming to buy the same property in Palm Beach, known as “Maison de L’Amitié.” Trump paid more than he wanted, probably because Epstein bid the property value up, and Epstein lost the bid to Trump in the end. Trump ended up selling the property in 2008 for $95 million, netting at least $28 million in profit (depending on who you believe regarding the amount Trump put in for renovations). Two men ended their relationship over a piece of property—they were hardly “friends” in any sense you or I would understand the term.
Epstein was falling apart in 2018, stressed as his empire built on sex trafficking collapsed. “you (sic) see, i know how dirty donald is,” Epstein emailed to Kathryn Ruemmler, as they discussed Trump’s then-lawyer Michael Cohen. “my (sic) guess is that non lawyers ny biz people have no idea, what it means to have your fixer flip.” This was the whole flap over Stormy Daniels and hush money. Seems like a century ago.
All of this happened while Trump was in the White House. If Epstein had the goods on Trump at the time, why would he elect suicide over “take him down”? Trump is not a good friend, but he can get very friendly with people who he needs to do things for him. If Epstein had something he could use—like Trump’s involvement with underage girls—why didn’t he deploy that weapon when he could?
I mean, this is the stuff of conspiracy theories. Did Trump, or his friends the Clintons, have Epstein eliminated in prison? For many reasons, I don’t think that happened. For one thing, Kathryn Ruemmler was at one time an Obama administration White House counsel. Epstein was connected with a whole gaggle of politicians, businesspeople, lawyers, and bankers (who until compelled, strenuously deny even meeting him).
“you might want to tell your dem friends that treating trump like a mafia don, ignores the fact that he has great dangerous power,” Epstein wrote [his attorney Reid Weingarten] on Dec. 20, 2018. “Tightening the noose too slowly, risks a very bad situation. . Gambino was never the commander in chief there was little gambino could do as the walls closed in. not so with this maniac.”
The tone here is that Epstein greatly feared Trump. But at the same time, he noted that Trump had not piled on over the years after their falling out, though in 2004 he called Epstein a “creep” and banned him from Mar-a-Lago. You’d think that Trump had the power to get rid of Epstein, and did so. But so many other people, from Bill Gates, to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, who once was Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, to Alan Dershowitz, to Woody Allen, have been stained by Epstein, it would be no “witch hunt” if Epstein directly implicated Trump, or threatened to.
So far, the documents have no hint that Epstein tried to make a deal with Trump. On the other hand, Epstein’s partner Ghislaine Maxwell is about to formally ask the president for a pardon. The White House has insisted there are no plans to offer one.
If Jeffrey Epstein had the goods on August 10, 2019, he never used them. If he had the goods, some way to “take him down,” he never did it. If he was “the one” who could take Trump down, after mere association with him took down so many others (exceptions noted: Bill Clinton), why didn’t Epstein use that information? Why did he not document all of it and publish it to the world? Why was he so scared of Trump that he would rather kill himself in prison than make a play to get out?
Even Michael Cohen got out of prison and somehow has a life, a way to hustle a living (he can’t practice law anymore). Trump pardoned George Frickin’ Santos, a Queens boy who could party and lie with the best of them. Of course, Epstein was in a much deeper, much sicker hole than Santos or Cohen. And in prison, sex traffickers get pretty much what they deserve. We don’t know what threats or promises were made in the months and days leading up to Epstein’s death. We do know that as early as 2018, Epstein’s mental and emotional state was fragile. We know he was terrified of Donald Trump.
But I also believe that Epstein never had the goods on Trump, a way to “take him down.” I’m sure that Trump did spend “hours” at Epstein’s home, as did so many other powerful and rich people who were invited to parties and get togethers there. I’m sure Trump had conversations with Epstein about money, real estate, and probably, women (surely, women). Remember, Trump never used email (still doesn’t). There’s not a lot of trail that the man leaves. It would be Epstein’s word against Trump’s, and not many people—even people who hate Trump with a passion—would be willing to compromise themselves to agree with a pariah like Epstein.
There may be more emails to come, or more pages of “Epstein files.” In the end, I don’t think we’ll learn anything we don’t already know. If there was something capable of taking Trump down, it would have been used, either in 2016, or 2018, or some time before August 10, 2019, when Epstein’s life ended.
If you’re one of the people who believe Epstein didn’t kill himself, that’s fine. I can’t prove he did. But conspiracies like that are nearly impossible to hold together, because as Ben Franklin famously said, “three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.” Epstein is dead, but Maxwell isn’t. There are too many people still alive and too many who are not friends of Donald Trump. If every single one of them is as terrified of Trump as Epstein was, we’re all in bigger trouble than we can know.
I don’t think that’s the case. Epstein didn’t have the goods on Trump. There is no smoking gun. If there was, Epstein would have used it.
It really is that simple.
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