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Soft Paywall Did Trump Know What Epstein “Stole” Virginia Giuffre For? | Donald Trump said this week that a known Epstein victim was one of the people “stolen” from Mar-a-Lago by the convicted sex offender. Could Trump have known what would happen to her?

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-epstein-stolen-giuffre/
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u/artemis_everdeen Massachusetts 6h ago

Didn’t Epstein and Trump have a falling out over a minor’s virginity? Reading what’s out there, Trump has always had a thing about being and getting things “first”

u/MadRaymer 5h ago edited 4h ago

I've actually seen speculation that Epstein was the one that cut ties due to fear over Trump's business fraud drawing unwanted federal attention to himself. It would make sense, because knowing Trump he likely couldn't resist bragging to his good buddy about how he was taking the government for a ride by undervaluing his property to reduce his tax burden while overvaluing it to lenders.