Earlier this week, President Donald Trump made rather unsettling comments regarding infamous, now-deceased child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, with whom Trump once boasted a long-standing and particularly close personal relationship with that he now can’t seem to escape.
As the Epstein scandal and the notorious “List” continue to loom heavy over Trump’s presidency, his recent public remarks regarding his old associate sparked serious questions and deeply concerning theories from National Security Analyst Marcy Wheeler, who has closely followed the Epstein scandal over the years, leading her to pose the question: “Did Trump Just Confess He Learned about Virginia Giuffre before Jeffrey Epstein Recruited Someone Else at Mar-a-Lago?”
In a new column this week, featuring the aforementioned title, Wheeler cited remarks made by Donald Trump on Tuesday, aboard Air Force One, when he publicly confirmed that his then-friend Jeffrey Epstein poached multiple young women from his Mar-a-Lago golf club and luxury resort.
Trump spoke with rather fierce anger as he revealed that his girls had been “taken out of the spa. Hired. By him [Epstein]. In other words, gone.”
“To be sure, it would be pathological to describe the recruitment of sex trafficking victims as simply hiring someone’s help away from them,” Wheeler noted in her blistering new column. “But it is the case that Giuffre, at least, went from [an employee] at Mar-a-Lago (where her father was a more trusted employee) to years of financial payment from Epstein.”
Wheeler goes on to describe the idea that what Epstein was doing with these young ladies was mere “employment,” as stated by Donald Trump, is “the kind of fiction Trump engages in all the time.”
Wheeler goes on to state that the sitting United States president is treating “the financially-lubricated sex trafficking of women as mere [employment].”
Even more staggering, though, is Wheeler’s deep-dive examination of Trump’s timeline in this matter.
Wheeler notes that Virginia Giuffre, one of the first Epstein victims to famously go public with her allegations, who ultimately took her own life earlier this year, was allegedly the first “employee” to be stolen from Trump by Epstein in 2000. At the time, Giuffre was only 16 years old and worked as a locker room attendant at Donald Trump’s Florida resort. Trump claims to have told Epstein not to poach anymore girls from his golf club, yet Epstein did so again and was ultimately removed as a member of Mar-a-Lago in 2007.
Donald Trump gave an interview to New York Magazine in 2002, where he openly and publicly spoke about Jeffrey Epstein’s proclivity for girls, particularly for quite young girls.
It was just a year later, in 2003, that Donald Trump penned the now-infamous drawing of a woman with his name scrawled over the pubic region for Epstein’s 50th birthday — as recently obtained and reported on in a bombshell piece from the Wall Street Journal and has since been vehemently and categorically denied by Trump himself.
Wheeler theorizes that if Donald Trump learned of what happened to Virginia Giuffre and confronted Epstein with a demand that he not poach young girls from his resort, “it would mean he was aware of what happened to Giuffre, aware years before law enforcement first started investigating Epstein. It would mean he learned Epstein was trafficking girls, which that New York Magazine quote sure seems to reflect, and rather than do something to make Epstein stop, Trump just told him not to do it at Mar-a-Lago.”
She further added that the newly revealed information would “also mean that whatever records the FBI has on their investigation into Prince Andrew — an investigation that led the Prince to stop traveling internationally — would reflect personally on Donald Trump. Not because of what Trump did, but because of what he didn’t do.”
You can read Wheeler’s full analysis here.
Featured image via DoD photo by U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Marianique Santos