HUNTER EXCLUSIVE! Trump, Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell

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Billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein has long been planted, while his ex-girlfriend and muse, Ghislaine Maxwell, is buried deep in the bowels of the American prison system.

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Donald Trump? Well, he’s President of the United States.

The Epstein saga of sex trafficking underage girls to his coterie of wealthy and powerful pals has never really gone away —too many unanswered questions. But the narrative got a shot of adrenaline, thanks to Trump.

It is a convoluted tale.

My old friend Barry Levine, author of The Spider: Inside the Criminal Web of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, tried to answer some of our questions.

Remember when Trump was going to unseal the Epstein files? We do. He has now backtracked.

Why didn’t disgraced socialite Maxwell point the finger at any of the wealthy men who enjoyed Epstein’s party favours of underage girls, if for no other reason than to save herself?

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“Why she allowed herself to stew behind bars, it doesn’t make a lot of sense,” Levine told the Toronto Sun. “She tried the regular playbook of the appeal process, but she’s not getting anywhere. They are not going to approve any sentencing discount and are standing by prosecutors.”

Maxwell, 62, was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison after being convicted of sex trafficking in 2022. Levine believes Maxwell hopes her old friend POTUS will grant her a pardon.

Currently, Maxwell is setting conditions for being interviewed by DOJ lawyers. She no doubt wants out.

“She is an evil, evil predator,” Levine said. “She told her friends that ‘these girls are nothing but trash’. She was the one who recruited the girls, groomed them, and promised their parents they would get music lessons, voice lessons, and acting lessons. The girls were being thrown to wolves.”

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For the survivors, the trauma persists as it likely will for eternity. Ever the manipulator, Maxwell is calling in all her cards, Levine said. She still has friends in high places, and they have buckets of dough.

Maxwell singing the tune of “what businessman, politician or celebrity had sex with an underage girl” would have a nice ring to it for the hoi polloi who have been screaming for answers.

“Could Donald Trump pardon her? Absolutely,” Levine said, adding that the president’s record with the opposite sex is less than sparkling. “He could let Maxwell off the hook. She knew Donald Trump before she knew Epstein.”

When Maxwell’s father, disgraced and dead publishing baron Robert “The Bouncing Czech” Maxwell, was looking to make inroads into America, his favourite child was his ambassador. There was talk of a Trump-themed magazine with the then-New York real estate developer.

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“That’s how she met Epstein, through Trump. And there is no question that he and Epstein were chasing women together. Epstein threw a party that was all women, except for him and Trump,” Epstein said. “He went from ‘Jeff’s a terrific guy’ to ‘Jeff’s a creep’.”

Once, Trump was a strong advocate for unsealing the Epstein files. But that changed. Levine believes that while there may be nothing sinister in the files about the commander-in-chief, there could be embarrassment.

Former Trump paramour and Sports Illustrated model Stacey Marshall claimed Trump groped her at a party with Epstein. She called it a “twisted game” between the two men.

“Were there more twisted games? Did Epstein bring other women to Donald Trump? What other twisted games were they playing, and are they in those files?” Levine asked.

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“None of this makes any sense.”

As for the renewed conspiracy theories that Epstein was murdered in his Manhattan jail cell in August 2019 while awaiting trial for sex trafficking, Levine torpedoes that idea. But because of the lack of transparency, the murder angle has gained currency.

Most worrisome for Trump, it’s catching fire among his most devout MAGA followers.

“What are they holding back, and why are they holding back if suicide is so clear-cut?” Levine said. “His MAGA base believes there’s something there. This is a mess of his own making, and no one is satisfied. He’s fueling this every day by making outrageous statements.”

On Wednesday, Trump proclaimed that the tragic $9 an hour Mar-A-Lago teen towel girl turned Epstein sex slave Virginia Giuffre had been “stolen” from him.

“If there is a cover-up, what exactly are they trying to cover up?”

Me? I think Epstein topped himself. But looking at the lengths to which the powers that be seem to be muddying the waters, it makes you wonder.

Levine is now working on an updated version of his Epstein tome.

bhunter@postmedia.com

@HunterTOSun

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