'Grifter’s Club': Bombshell book busts Trump’s Epstein timeline

05 August

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At a press conference during his recent visit to Scotland, U.S. President Donald Trump discussed his relationship with the late Jeffrey Epstein. Trump told reporters that because the disgraced financier was "stealing" his employees, he told him he was no long welcome at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida.

But according to "The Grifter's Club: Trump, Mar-a-Lago, and the Selling of the Presidency" — a new book by Miami Herald reporters Sarah Blaskey, Caitlin Ostroff, Nicholas Nehamas and Jay Weaver — Mar-a-Lago records show a different Trump/Epstein timeline than the one the U.S. president described in Scotland.

The Daily Beast's Tom Latchem, in an article published on August 5, explains, "Jeffrey Epstein continued to be a member of Donald Trump’s luxury private members club for more than a year after the billionaire financier was indicted, according to Mar-a-Lago membership documents seen by the authors of a book. The president told reporters that he cut ties with Epstein after the pedophile 'stole' female workers from his exclusive Florida members club, but the revelation that Epstein was allegedly still a member of the club seven years after Epstein poached Virginia Giuffre from the spa at Mar-a-Lago in 2000 raises questions over Trump’s version of events."

"The Grifter's Club," Latchem notes, shows that Epstein "was a member of the club until October 2007, more than a year after he was indicted and released on bail."

The Daily Beast journalist also references New York post reporting from October 15, 2007.

Latchem reports, "Epstein was a member of the club until October 2007, more than a year after he was indicted and released on bail, according to 'The Grifter's Club'…. The book reports that the 'membership log shows his account at the club was closed in October 2007.' A report in the New York Post in the same month quoted a source saying he had been banned…. It is not known whether Epstein visited Mar-a-Lago while on bail."

Latchem adds, "The New York Post said, in the same article, that Epstein denied he was banned even then and told them that he had 'recently (been) invited to an event there,' although he did not name the event….. Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre — who took her own life earlier this year — said, in a deposition for a lawsuit against Ghislaine Maxwell, that she worked at Trump's club in the summer of 2000 when she was 17.

Read the full Daily Beast article at this link.

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