Report: Trump And Epstein Entertained At Mar-A-Lago By Dozens Of Young Women

Report: Trump And Epstein Entertained At Mar-A-Lago By Dozens Of Young Women

Reprinted with permission from Alternet.

A new report from the New York Times on Tuesday revealed fresh details about the years-long friendship between President Donald Trump and the convicted sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein.

The most bizarre revelation was the account of a party, told by Florida businessman George Houraney, at which Trump and Epstein were the only guests:

It was supposed to be an exclusive party at Mar-a-Lago, Donald J. Trump’s members-only club in Palm Beach, Fla. But other than the two dozen or so women flown in to provide the entertainment, the only guests were Mr. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein.

The year was 1992 and the event was a “calendar girl” competition, something that George Houraney, a Florida-based businessman who ran American Dream Enterprise, had organized at Mr. Trump’s request.

“I arranged to have some contestants fly in,” Mr. Houraney recalled in an interview on Monday. “At the very first party, I said, ‘Who’s coming tonight? I have 28 girls coming.’ It was him and Epstein.”

The report contains no allegations of misconduct at the party, but it’s a disturbing account given that Epstein has just been indicted on charges of sex trafficking young teenage girls. (Houraney and his girlfriend Jill Harth have accused Trump of sexual abuseof Harth).

Some of Trump’s public comments suggest that he was aware at the time of Epstein’s interest in having sex with underage girls. The Times report indicates that during the 2016 campaign, Trump believed he could use Epstein’s ties to Bill Clinton to damage Hillary Clinton. It also says that David Pecker of The National Enquirer suggested he had damaging information about Clinton and Epstein, though that never became a major issue in the race.

On Tuesday in the Oval Office, Trump downplayed his relationship to Epstein. He said he knew him  “like everybody else in Palm Beach knew him … he was a fixture in Palm Beach.” But the Times report details a much closer relationship than those remarks suggest. In fact, the two men were reportedly involved in a business venture together, and when it fell apart, their relationship soured.

IMAGE: Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, scene of reported party with 28 young women and only Trump and Jeffrey Epstein as guests.

 

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