Lisa Baker:
BREAKING: Donald Trump's narrative about Jeffrey Epstein collapses in stunning fashion as it's revealed that the billionaire pedophile remained a member at Mar-a-Lago for over a year after he was indicted.
And it gets even worse...
The Daily Beast reports that authors of a book have obtained Mar-a-Lago membership documents which show that Epstein was still a member of the luxury private club seven years after Trump claims that Epstein "stole" Virginia Giuffre from the Mar-a-Lago spa in 2000.
Trump has stated that Epstein's repeated poaching of staff was what led to the end of their relationship but Epstein remained a club member until 2007, long after Giuffre left and over a year after Epstein was indicted and subsequently released on bail.
The indictment was widely covered in the media at the time and The South Florida Sun Sentinel reported that Epstein had been accused of "fondling and—in one case—having sex with underage girls whom he paid for massages." In other words, it seems exceedingly unlikely that Trump wasn't aware of the horrifying allegations against his close friend and yet he didn't immediately ban him from Mar-a-Lago.
The revelations are included in "The Grifter’s Club: Trump, Mar-a-Lago, and the Selling of the Presidency" by Miami Herald journalists Sarah Blaskey, Caitlin Ostroff, Nicholas Nehamas, and Jay Weaver.
Virginia Giuffre was a victim of Epstein's and Maxwell's sexual predations and claimed to have also been trafficked to the United Kingdom's Prince Andrew. She took her own life earlier this year.
Her attorney Bradley Edwards wrote in a 2009 court filing that Trump banned Epstein from Mar-a-Lago "because Epstein sexually assaulted an underage girl at the club." If true, it means that the staff poaching had nothing to do with the severing of the Trump-Epstein friendship. It's possible that the assault forced Trump's hand, and he cut off Epstein to protect Mar-a-Lago from further liability.
According to The New York Post, Epstein denied being banned from Mar-a-Lago and claimed to have “recently [been] invited to an event there" in 2007. It's unclear if he visited the Florida property while out on bail but given the fact that he was still on the membership rolls, it's certainly possible.
What is abundantly clear is that Trump is lying about Jeffrey Epstein. Until he orders the full release of the Epstein files, the world will be forced to assume the absolute worst.
— Occupy Democrats