The leather-bound book was compiled by Ghislaine Maxwell. The president says the letter ‘is a fake thing.’
It was Jeffrey Epstein’s 50th birthday, and Ghislaine Maxwell was preparing a special gift to mark the occasion. She turned to Epstein’s family and friends. One of them was Donald Trump.
Maxwell collected letters from Trump and dozens of Epstein’s other associates for a 2003 birthday album, according to documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
Again, we need to know what kind of connection they actually had. Both being very social and moving in the same circles, they likely had plenty of contact but how personal was it?
ReplyDeleteFor example, I had a student 15 years ago. He was a great student and a year ago I randomly wondered how things turned out with him. I googles his name was was shocked to read about his arrest on drug and fraud charges. Now, this guy was my student for 6 weeks. If I'd have stayed in touch with him casually after that but never knew what he was up to, would I have been guilty? If he told me what he was doing but in such a way as to make me think it was just empty boasting, would I be guilty?
So Trump sent him a birthday card 22 years ago with a lewd drawing on. So what? If that's all you've got, you've got nothing.
There was a news article on here from 2015, where Chaim walder was quoted. This was about 7 years before his scandal went public. Apparently he was a well known frum figure in the charedi world.
DeleteSo anyone tied to him is guilty by association?
Exactly. Let's say he gave a shiur somewhere and you attended it. Do you now have to justify that or deny any close contact with him otherwise?
DeleteWe saw this in Canada during the last election - the Conservatives pushed around a picture of Prime Minister Mark Carney standing next to Ghislaine Maxwell at a party. Ah ha! See! He's friends with her. And it backfired because all it suggested was that whoever invited her to party invited him to and they happened to wind up in the same photo together.
Again, 22 years ago Trump did something silly that involved Epstein. Only those suffering from TDS would draw a connection.
Now, I'm not saying there isn't one. Trump's desire to suppress the "client list" strongly suggests there is but this is not the smoking gun