Jeffrey Epstein revealed in an unaired interview that he separated himself from former President Donald Trump after discovering Trump was a crook, according to his brother, Mark Epstein.
Mark Epstein told Insider that in the spring of 2019, his brother emailed him footage of the interview, which was done by Steve Bannon, a former adviser to Trump in the White House.
Bannon was filming interviews with the financier who was a known pedophile at the time. Bannon emailed his brother a Dropbox link to a clip that was given to Jeffrey Epstein. Mark claims that the URL is no longer live.
Jeffrey Epstein was detained in July 2019 on suspicion of trafficking in human sex and passed away in custody a few weeks later while awaiting trial. He sexually abused at least 136 people overall, according to a fund established following his passing.
From the 1980s and the 2000s, Epstein and Trump are said to have known one another. They frequented affluent Manhattan social circles, and Epstein’s Palm Beach residence, where he frequently visited Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club, was close by.
They can be seen partying together, talking about women, and making jokes on footage obtained by NBC News in 1992.
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Bannon was recording interviews with the financier, who was at the time a well-known pedophile. Bannon sent a Dropbox link to a clip that was given to Jeffrey Epstein to his brother. The Link, according to Mark, is no longer active.
A few weeks after being taken into custody on charges of trafficking in human sex in July 2019, Jeffrey Epstein passed suddenly while awaiting trial. 136 persons in total were sexually molested by him, according to a foundation started after his passing.
According to Mark Epstein, Bannon shot more than 16 hours of video for the documentary. The Miami Herald published a series in November 2018 describing how Jeffrey Epstein, who was accused of sexually abusing more than 30 girls, managed to negotiate a covert, lenient plea agreement with federal prosecutors in Florida in 2007.
After Bannon left the White House in 2017, the journalist Michael Wolff said that Bannon and Epstein grew close. Bannon utilized Epstein’s butler and Paris apartment to enjoy a luxury lifestyle in 2018.
In 2021, Bannon unveiled the trailer for ‘The Monsters,’ a purported Epstein documentary. The complete film has not yet been made public. Trump and Bannon both currently face legal problems.
The Manhattan district attorney’s office has filed criminal charges against Bannon for allegedly participating in a phony charity that raised money to build a wall between the United States and Mexico. Trump pardoned Bannon on the same federal charges.
For his part, Trump is dealing with a rape case that will go to trial in April, a potential indictment from the Manhattan district attorney’s office for a hush-money plot before the 2016 election, as well as a long list of other legal issues.
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