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BumRushDaShow

(165,270 posts)
Sat Dec 27, 2025, 03:04 PM 3 hrs ago

Gloria Allred questions Trump's reasons for ending friendship with Epstein

Source: The Hill

12/27/25 1:33 PM ET


Attorney Gloria Allred on Friday speculated on why the friendship between President Trump and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein ended, and what the files released by the Justice Department (DOJ) could reveal about the falling out. “Well, I‘ve heard different explanations from the White House about why he dropped him,” Allred told CNN’s Phil Mattingly.

“One explanation was that he was a pervert, Jeffrey Epstein. But if he was a pervert, in the view of the president — not the president at the time — then why did he believe he was a pervert?” “And was he — did he investigate?” Allred continued. “Did he look into what actions or misconduct he knew that perhaps Jeffrey Epstein was inflicting on underage girls, children, or adults?”

The attorney said she also heard that Epstein bid against Trump in purchasing a property in Palm Beach, Fla., which stirred “bad will” between them. “So we don‘t know whether, what‘s the truth,” she said. “We‘ll just have to wait and see why he and Jeffrey Epstein were no longer friends. We‘ll look at the, all the files when they‘re released to see when the last communications may have existed between the two of them.”

The attorney noted that her focus was more on allegations of sex trafficking underaged girls, including “who assisted, who enabled, who supported Jeffrey Epstein in this effort.” “We‘re going to have to also follow the money, which may be the most important trail that we have to journey upon in order to find out how this, I think, worldwide sex trafficking method and project was conducted,” she concluded.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5664310-gloria-allred-donald-trump-jeffrey-epstein-friendship/



Allred and her law firm is representing a number of Epstein victims.
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Vinca

(53,250 posts)
1. Epstein's brother told CNN that Trump called Jeffrey right after winning the 2016 election. Trump tries to claim they
Sat Dec 27, 2025, 03:28 PM
2 hrs ago

had long before parted ways, but why immediately call someone you had a falling out with?

Scrivener7

(58,169 posts)
2. I agree. I also think the timeline they gave is total bullshit.
Sat Dec 27, 2025, 04:25 PM
1 hr ago

When Cankles was elected, Steve Bannon told Epstein that Epstein was the only person he feared could scupper the campaign.

FakeNoose

(40,023 posts)
4. Bannon's job was to go around and "buy off" the women and get them to sign NDAs
Sat Dec 27, 2025, 04:44 PM
1 hr ago

I'm talking about the women who could have embarrassed Chump by revealing how he had attacked or raped them, or in some cases groped or grabbed them. At one point Bannon told Michael Wolff that it was over 100 women, but not all of them were willing to sign NDAs.

E. Jean Carroll was famously one of those who refused, and she was able to take him to court.

These women who signed NDAs in 2015 and 2016 were not underage, and as far as I know, none of them had anything to do with Jeffrey Epstein. The situation with Epstein was very different ... maybe the documents will reveal whether they were trafficking together (by hiring wanna-be models etc.) or whatever shows up in the financial transactions.

mopinko

(73,262 posts)
5. trump models.
Sat Dec 27, 2025, 04:53 PM
1 hr ago

tho most folks here have heard of it, it sure never gets mentioned on the teevee.

Scrivener7

(58,169 posts)
8. Some subset of those who did not sign NDAs chose not to because they want to talk.
Sat Dec 27, 2025, 05:18 PM
57 min ago

Sure wish the press would get on that.

patphil

(8,678 posts)
6. The most plausable reason that Trump had a problem with Epstein was likely money related.
Sat Dec 27, 2025, 04:53 PM
1 hr ago

Trump is transactional, and money means everything to him. Donnie and Jeff probably had a falling out over money. What that entailed is anybody's guess, but the way these guys played money games it could have been anything.

SidneyR

(204 posts)
7. Maybe it's simple competition that drove them apart.
Sat Dec 27, 2025, 04:59 PM
1 hr ago

Maybe Epstein stole away one of DT's favorite young conquests.

Scrivener7

(58,169 posts)
9. That is almost the Katie Johnson story. Only it was Epstein who thought Cankles "stole" someone from him.
Sat Dec 27, 2025, 05:19 PM
56 min ago

JoseBalow

(9,104 posts)
11. "One explanation was that he was a pervert, Jeffrey Epstein."
Sat Dec 27, 2025, 06:06 PM
9 min ago

Yes, drumpf acted on moral principle.

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