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Trump Tipped Police on Epstein in 2006, Files Allege
Did Trump enable Epstein's crimes or did he help bring down the predator and cut ties years before his arrest?
Above: A protester holds a sign featuring images of President Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein in New York on Feb. 10, 2026. Image credit: Romain Gautier/Hans Lucas/AFP/Getty Images
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Anti-Trump narrative
Trump's decades-long friendship with Epstein reveals a pattern of predatory behavior and complicity. Epstein described himself as Trump's closest friend for 10 years and detailed Trump's alleged serial cheating and exploitation of women, while Virginia Giuffre was recruited from Mar-a-Lago itself. The guilty act exactly like someone desperately trying to distance himself from crimes he enabled.
Pro-Trump narrative
Trump actually helped bring down Epstein and was never involved in any wrongdoing. Maxwell confirmed under oath to the DOJ that she never saw Trump be inappropriate with anybody and never witnessed him in any massage setting. Trump was above board and cut ties with Epstein years before the arrests, and the media's attempt to weaponize the Epstein files against him completely backfired.
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