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Rhiannon12866

(239,364 posts)
Wed Jul 23, 2025, 03:11 AM Wednesday

Exclusive: Newly discovered photos and video shed fresh light on Trump's ties to Jeffrey Epstein - CNN Erin Burnett



Newly uncovered archived video footage and photos reveal fresh details about Donald Trump’s past relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.

Photos from 1993 confirm for the first time that Epstein attended Trump’s 1993 wedding to Marla Maples. Epstein’s attendance at the ceremony at the Plaza Hotel was not widely known until now.

In addition, footage from a 1999 Victoria’s Secret fashion event in New York shows Trump and Epstein laughing and chatting together ahead of the runway event. CNN’s KFile uncovered the raw footage during a review of archival video of Trump at events in the 1990s and 2000s. Trump and Epstein appeared together in at least one video among the limited archival footage reviewed.

The new footage and photos, which have not been widely reported and pre-date any of Epstein’s known legal issues, come amid renewed scrutiny of Trump’s past relationship with Epstein. The Justice Department’s recent decision not to release long-promised files related to Epstein has spurred outrage in some corners of Trump’s MAGA movement, where people developed an expectation for bombshell revelations into Epstein’s alleged co-conspirators.

In a brief call with CNN on Tuesday, Trump, asked about the wedding photos, responded, “You’ve got to be kidding me,” before repeatedly calling CNN “fake news” and hanging up.

In a statement to CNN, White House Communications Director Steven Cheung said, “These are nothing more than out-of-context frame grabs of innocuous videos and pictures of widely attended events to disgustingly infer something nefarious.

“The fact is that the president kicked him out of his club for being a creep. This is nothing more than a continuation of the fake news stories concocted by the Democrats and the liberal media." - 07/22/2025.

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Botany

(74,812 posts)
2. So Melania who was introduced to Trump who herself was a sex worker must have known all about it ..
Wed Jul 23, 2025, 04:18 AM
Wednesday

…. Trump raping underage girls for years, that Epstein was involved in an international
sex trafficking/blackmail operation, and more than likely that sex trafficking of underage
girls/blackmail operation had something to do with Putin.

Irish_Dem

(72,638 posts)
3. Melania knows all of it, and provides cover with "boys will be boys."
Wed Jul 23, 2025, 05:26 AM
Wednesday

She was part of the operation.
Involved in the sex and drug parties.

The pictures of her back then, she is obviously high as a kite.
Dirty, stringy hair, looking zonked out, wearing provocative clothing.
The typical party girl, a working girl.

A gold digger, she would not have missed anything she could use against Trump
in the future divorce. She was planning on divorcing Trump just before he ran for
president the first time. She had a boyfriend and was ready to walk.
But then Trump paid her off to come to Washington DC.

taxi

(2,406 posts)
5. Hello, this is my best friend. He's a creep. I don't know why we get along so well. What's your phone number?
Wed Jul 23, 2025, 06:11 AM
Wednesday

Botany

(74,812 posts)
7. They were covering the important story of Hillary's emails.
Wed Jul 23, 2025, 07:47 AM
Wednesday

Trump’s sexual predilections have been known for years, along with his ties to organized crime &
Russia, his bankruptcies, his racism, his having to go to military school to avoid juvenile prison,
his drug use, laundering money through his properties, and his academic failings too.

TBTB and Russia wanted Trump as POTUS end of story.



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