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Trump and Epstein: The Post and Courier’s Investigation Into The Trump Allegations (3/30/26)
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An investigation examined the claims of a woman who reported to the FBI that she was abused by Jeffrey Epstein as a minor and later alleged that Epstein introduced her to Donald Trump, leading to an attempted sexual assault. Reporters worked to verify...
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What's up everyone? And welcome to another episode of the Epstein Chronicles. So the Post and Courier down in South Carolina did a fantastic job digging into the claims made by Jane Doe number four about Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein. And and this of course has to do with the allegations that she made about Donald Trump and what he allegedly did to her. Now the Trump administration has said that this is nothing but a bunch of BS and that nothing ever happened and that this woman is not telling the truth and that all of this is just another hoax that's been made up by the Democrats to try and take Donald Trump down. But when you get through all the noise and you start looking at the facts and and you start looking at the evidence that we have, it is very concerning that an investigation was never launched into these allegations and to what this young lady had to say. So today we have an article from the Post and Courier down in South Carolina and hopefully this gives us a little bit of clarity about what's going on. Headline, fuzzy memories and hard facts and as he accusers claims against Epstein Trump examined. This article was authored by Mitchell Black and Marilyn W. Thompson. A woman who claimed she was abused as a minor by both Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump has given the FBI vivid accounts that include aspects of her life corroborated by the Post and Courier through public records. And when it comes to situations like this, very rarely are we going to be Given a smoking gun, we're going to have to put together circumstantial evidence. And if pieces of the story are corroborated, I think it's very important that more investigation is launched. You see, look, I'm not calling for anybody to be hung up by their toes, at least not until they're convicted. What I'm calling for is a robust investigation into all these allegations, including this one. And if that offends you or you think that that shouldn't happen, I don't care. I really don't give a. Because anybody who's looking at this through the lens of justice knows there was never any real investigation into this or anything else. Her alleged encounter with Trump sometime around 1984 remains unproven. And the White House on March 7 said there is no credible evidence that the woman's account is true. Well, can we see the work? Considering that pages and pages are missing still, can we see what the FBI was up to? You know, like the law demands. But they won't even do that. What they'll do is say, look, this is all bs. We don't have to show you anything. We're just going to tell you. And if you think anything else and you think that a bigger investigation should be launched, well, you're just a conspiracy theorist, which I find comical from people who believe that aliens are demons. You hear that one with J.D. vance? Oh, aliens are demons. I mean, imagine being governed by wholly unserious people like this. If it wasn't so terrifying, it would be comical. Maybe J.D. vance should just have a gigantic exorcism to get rid of all the demons. Using archived government records and news accounts, the Post and Courier found that the woman provided verifiable details to agents about her family background and its legal entanglements. She offered the name of an Epstein business associate on Hilton Head island who became a central figure in the drama, with specifics that are reflected in public record. Yo, this is a damning report. Just so we're clear, this is a pretty damning report for Donald Trump and the administration, and not because it automatically proves what she's saying is true, but it corroborates a lot of the information that she was giving up to the authorities. So when you're being truthful about all the background information, chances are you're being truthful about what happened. The accounts describe an early phase in the mid-80s of potential criminal conduct by Epstein that involved sexual activity with minors on Hilton Head. The alleged victim told the FBI she was under constant pressure from him to recruit more girls there to come party with him and his disgusting older friends. The incidents almost always involve drugs and alcohol and turn violent with hair pulling and beatings, according to the women, which is very concerning considering what we heard about Zorro Ranch and the women who died due to rough sex. And when I tell you about the little golden nuggets in these articles, in these stories we talk about, this is one of them. When you put all of it together, that's called circumstantial evidence. And when you start putting all that circumstantial evidence together, that's how you build the foundation of a case. And if we had a serious FBI, they'd be all over it. They'd be investigating it with the thoroughness that it deserves, but they never did. So now we're left to ask questions and wonder why the FBI was negligent and didn't do their job when it comes to investigating these allegations made by this woman. There was no truth to those allegations. Meanwhile, they never even investigated. So, yeah, I'm sure there's no truth when you're not investigating. Epstein went on to command a global sex trafficking ring that roped in hundreds of women, including many teenagers. He faced federal charges of sexually trafficking minors when he died in his federal prison cell in 2019. In her account about Trump, she claimed that he forced her to commit a sex act on him sometime around 1984. But she provided foggy details to FBI agents, including that the alleged encounter with Trump happened when she traveled north to New York or New Jersey with Epstein, who was a fixture in elite society by then. Decades before he sought the presidency, Trump had already become a prominent presence in the New York business and social scene. Well, we know that Donald Trump said that Epstein likes them young, even younger than me. So is it really out of the realm of possibility that Donald Trump like younger women? He told us he liked younger women. He's always been married to younger women. He's always been with younger women. Now, does that mean that he is guilty of this crime? Of course not. What I'm saying is there was never a proper investigation, just like with the rest of this. And until there's a proper investigation, I don't want to hear from anybody about who's innocent and who's guilty. We don't know yet. Besides the people that are dead to rights that we have obvious information on, you know, the indy, the cons, the core four people like that, I believe there's a smoking gun pointing directly at people like that when it comes to People like Donald Trump. What we have so far is a ton of circumstantial evidence. And when you put all that circumstantial evidence together, it starts painting a picture. And the picture it paints for Donald Trump is not a good one. A friend of hers also reported the allegation about Trump to the FBI in 2019. The bureau cited her allegation in an email circulated within the agency and recently made public by the Justice Department. She asked that her friend be protected. Why would her friend get involved if she's not telling the truth? Is it just some big scam? Some big scheme, maybe? Look, I don't rule anything out, and that's why I keep saying we need to have a robust investigation. No rocks left unturned, no bushes left unshaken, and no doors left unkicked in. If you want to get to the bottom of something, I know this is a novel idea, you have to investigate it. Of the details that the Post and Courier found, supported by public records, none related directly to the alleged victim's claims about Trump. The Post and Courier is not identifying the woman in keeping with its policy on sexual assault victims. The woman did not respond to messages seeking an interview, and her attorney, Lisa Bloom, a leading sexual assault lawyer, declined to comment. Look, anytime I see Lisa Bloom around or her mom, Gloria Allred, I have questions. I'm not a big fan of either of them, and I think that both of them are glory hounds, and they do everything basically to help their own profile. Not like they care about these survivors, at least not in my opinion. And when you have Gloria Allred show up or Lisa Bloom, automatically, people start thinking that this is a hoax, and that's because they've been involved in how many shakedowns throughout the years? So when you have Lisa Bloom or a Gloria Allred involved, that also brings with it a certain amount of skepticism from a group of people. And look, I'm not saying that everything Lisa Bloom and Gloria Allred get involved with is for publicity, but there's no doubt that they're glory hounds. To identify key players in the woman's account and attempt to evaluate her claims, the newspaper scoured court records, police reports, and old newspaper clippings in multiple states. It also deployed a reporter to the west coast to retrace her steps in a journey that began on a tiny resort island along the South Carolina coast. The alleged victim claimed that Epstein had business contacts in Hilton Head and lived temporarily on the island in two residences. One associate, she said, was a businessman in Ohio who took over a small real estate company on Hilton Head that hired her mother as a broker in the mid-1980s. The associate, who commuted to the island from the Cincinnati area, dated her mother as well.
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Records show that the woman's mother bought the property in Hilton Head in 1981 for $55,000. At one point, her address was steps from Coligny beach, now the most popular ocean front for visitors to the island beaches. She moved often. Record show in local classified advertisements the company that employed her mother marketed long term rentals of homes and villas. It offered an array of lodging from a seaside cabin to a fully furnished locale at the Four Seasons Resort, with access to a Jacuzzi, tennis and handball courts. Sounds pretty swanky, huh? Sounds like the exact kind of place Jeffrey Epstein and his buddies would be hanging out. Her mom rented one home to financier Jeffrey Epstein. According to the alleged victim, she told federal agents that her mother advertised in a flyer that she, then 13, could provide babysitting services. Epstein, the woman said, summoned her to the house where he began his pattern of abuse. The Ohio associate who hired her mother also Also had sex with the teen several times and physically abused her. She told agents she described him as a man with gray hair and big ears. She told agent she believed he was affiliated with a Cincinnati based college. The Post and Courier confirmed that he was a board member of the for profit school. Yikes. So they confirmed that part of her story. Huh, that's interesting. And if she's telling the truth about this, what else is she telling the truth about? Local newspaper accounts from the time describe problems with drug use among the young who were hanging out on Hilton Heads beaches. The alleged victim said Epstein, who provided marijuana, cocaine and pills to her and others, brought fat older men to a pool gathering at a resort hotel. And look, previously the drug stuff, it was kind of like, ah, maybe, but we haven't really heard that from anybody else. But now with what we know about the DEA and the investigation, all this stuff about drugs, I think we have to reevaluate. She only recalled encountering Epstein once in a non sexual situation, telling agents she bumped into him at a Rick James concert in Savannah, Georgia when she was around 15. She said he got her drunk. And newspaper records show the super freak musician performed regularly in the Savannah area at the time. Corroborated her story again. And when you have all these little pieces that get corroborated, it starts to make you wonder if she's telling the truth about it. All right, anybody who is looking at it from a neutral perspective, looking at it through the lens of justice, not, oh, well, I want Donald Trump to be innocent or oh, I want him to be guilty, but no, just through the lens of neutrality. And through that lens, I don't know how anyone could look at this and say, oh, it's been investigated fully. Oh, yeah, Donald Trump, he's been cleared. Because in my opinion, he is not. Now, with that said, would I be able to convict him on what we know now? Of course not. There's no smoking gun here. But when you have a bunch of circumstantial evidence that starts to add up, that's when things start getting dangerous for the people that are being accused. And folks, that circumstantial evidence has begun to pile up. At one point, her mother became aware that Epstein had nude photos of the teen from their sexual encounters and was demanding money to keep them hidden. The woman told the FBI the victim said she she had seen the photographs in his bedstand leading to a violent encounter. When he discovered her snooping. She said his extortion demand caused her mother to steal funds from her real estate company. Epstein had departed investment and trading company Bear Stearns in 1981 after an internal investigation of his trading practices. Around the time of the allegations, he was operating a company he founded in New York. Epstein worked as a troubleshooter for wealthy clients, advising them on issues like corporate embezzlement and offering investment strategies. Which is amazing considering dude was a college dropout. But sure, all of the elite people in New York and elsewhere were just clamoring for his services, right? Give me a break. The alleged victim said her mother's boss, the Epstein associate from Ohio, and his company accountant helped the mother fix the books so she could pay off Epstein. The alleged victim told agents that the episode was so stressful for her mother that her mother began drinking again. Her mother later went to prison near Columbia, the woman told agents. Records confirmed that her mother was implicated in such a crime around the time In October of 1985, the S.C. real Estate Commission froze her business escrow account and temporarily suspended her license, according to a local newspaper account. So again, corroborated what this young lady had to say. And I think as we keep moving forward and we see these little pieces corroborated, it really stops you in your tracks and makes you realize that the FBI obviously didn't look into this. A commission spokesperson responded to the Post and Courier request, said the records were not immediately available. But other documents show the mother's boss at the real estate firm saw criminal charges against the mother. The following year she was accused of stealing $22,000 from the escrow account, records show. Months later, she was charged with six counts of forgery for writing bad checks, a crime she had been accused of in the past as well. Signing off on the charges was was then solicitor Randolph Buster Murdaugh Jr. The grandfather of convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh, which is a whole ass other disaster of a story if you're not familiar with it. Boy oh boy, the Murdaughs. What an absolute train wreck. Lawyers who represented the mother either declined to comment or did not recall the case. A deputy who transported her from Sumter to Beaufort after her arrest told the Post and Courier he did not remember picking her up. The mother ultimately pleaded guilty to all charges, was sentenced to probation and ordered to make monthly 150 restitution payments until she paid off the debt. She failed to make those payments and the daughter told the FBI she tracked down her mother's old boss to ask him for help. She said the Epstein associate coldly told her not not to call her again and didn't care if she ended up in the gutter. Well, that sounds about right. Anybody associated with Epstein doesn't give a damn about the people he abuses, so that certainly tracks. In 1990, a court in Charleston found that the mother violated parole by traveling abroad without permission and by failing to meet the payment schedule. The alleged victim told the FBI her mother was sent to state prison near Columbia. State officials confirmed details of her mother's incarceration. By that time, the daughter was 17 or 18 years old and had moved to Somerville. She left Hilton Head High School before graduating. Records confirmed that she attended the school, and it appeared the FBI agents had obtained a copy of its yearbook. The Halison. The mother and her daughter remained physically close over the years, the living near one another at various times. So look again. No smoking gun here, guys. Not at all. But I think that the point is that she's telling the truth about these other things. So if she's telling the truth about these other things, shouldn't that lead the investigators to dig deeper and go harder? But it looks like everything was just closed up and the investigation was, you know, stymied. Records show that her mother was accused by a Charleston woman of. Of breaking and entering her home in 1996 and sued for eviction by a landlord in Washington State in 1998. She and her daughter eventually both ended up out west, and there the daughter would level the accusations that have now placed her at center stage in the Epstein saga. Years after the events on Hilton Head, the woman said both she and her mother felt that Epstein was tracking their movements. Both face suspicious calls and frightening incidents. In addition to detailing her abuse at Epstein's hands, the woman offered vague details across three interviews about her encounter with Trump. She said that the incident occurred when he was a leading developer with a new casino in Atlantic City. She said that she was led to Trump in a very tall building with huge rooms. The future president instructed others to leave the room, she said, and allegedly told her, let me teach you how little girls are supposed to be. Well, that's fucking terrifying, huh? If that's true, good Lord, that man's the President of the United States of America, huh? And if you were wondering what's going on over in Iran, well, I would think that these kind of allegations here are playing a bit of a part, considering how the whole conversation has now turned from the Epstein issue to Iran. The conspiratorial part of my brain wants to say that it all has to do with what's going on with the Epstein files and how damaging they are to Donald Trump. And look, the more information that comes out, the more the case can be made. Are we going to act like it would be the first time that a president dealing with domestic issues tries to flip the script and get the heat off of him by causing some kind of end international issue like we're seeing in Iran? Have we forgotten what Bill Clinton liked to do? Or hell any of these presidents? Whenever there is an issue, go bomb somebody. She said that he unzipped his pants and forced her to perform a sex act. The alleged victim told the FBI she bit the out of it, causing Trump to slap her across the face and curse at her. It's unclear from the interview records how long she stayed in the New York area, but she had family connections in the state. In her talks with the FBI, the woman also detailed calls to her mother at an assisted living facility on the west coast where both of them had settled. The Post and Courier verified that the mother used a private nursing care home as an address in her declining years. A death record matches the mother's age and name, but Washington State does not publicly release other identifying details. So again, told the truth about that. So is she just telling the truth about all these little things, these little picayune things, or is she telling the truth about all of it? I'll leave it up to you to decide.
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it's common for sexual trauma victims to have trouble recollecting the specifics of abusive incidents. According to experts, the FBI recognized this during its decades long Epstein investigation and provided free counseling services to the victims. One agent involved in the woman's interview with the FBI was a psychologist trained in victim trauma. Critical elements of the woman's story are difficult to verify without the ability to call witnesses, conduct sworn interviews and subpoena financial records. It's unclear whether the FBI attempted such an investigation. They did not. And that's the problem right there. That's the problem. No investigation was kicked off or initiated. So we don't know what's what. These allegations have been made. Trump has denied them, but we don't have any investigation to go on. So it comes down to what do you believe? The woman repeatedly told FBI agents she believed it served no purpose to tell her story because the events occurred so long ago. Trump had also been elected president in 2016. She informed agents in August 2019 that she wanted them to know she had sued Epstein's estate in case it posed a conflict with their investigation. In a statement to the Post and Courier, Trump's press secretary, Caroline Levitt, called the allegations baseless accusations from decades ago that are backed by zero evidence or facts. She described the alleged victim as a sadly disturbed woman who has an extensive criminal history. Yo, that's the same way they tried to frame the girls in Florida. It's wholly unacceptable. And it's the same bullshit that Anna Paulina Luna does. Just pay attention to the patterns, folks. They tell you more than the words ever will. And the attempt to on people's credibility is just unbelievably gross. Oh, somebody has a criminal history, huh? So that means they can't be assaulted. They've never been abused. Furthermore, doesn't Donald Trump have a criminal history? How about Kushner's dad? How about insert person here in Donald Trump's inner circle? So, please, save the. People make mistakes in their life, they get caught up in the system. Happens to a lot of people. Does it mean they don't have credibility? Of course it doesn't. Especially considering when you're talking about people who think that Ghislaine Maxwell is credible. So that shows you where we are on the spectrum here. After her time with Epstein, the alleged victim accumulated a record of criminal charges, drug dependency, and domestic turmoil. She had a daughter and was prosecuted for filing false claims for for food stamp applications. The alleged victim avoided prison by completing a drug diversion program. The alleged victim had a turbulent domestic life with three marriages, including one that lasted only a few weeks. Her mother shows up in court records as a witness in a violent domestic incident between her daughter and her first husband, who declined to speak when a reporter approached him at his door. Well, yeah, I mean, I'm sure he wants nothing to do with any of this. Her first husband, my guess is, dude has moved on with his life, right? The alleged victim eventually returned to the east coast and lived with relatives in Georgia, developing a romantic relationship with a terminally ill man who was saving money for his funeral. She stole an envelope filled with cash from him and spent a year in county jail for it. Her Republic defender told the Post and Courier that she described her life to him and as having been permanently scarred by her experience with Epstein. Well, that tracks. How many of these women ended up having mental problems after they were abused? A whole lot of them. Now, does that mean that this person shouldn't be questioned and that we should just believe everything she says? No, that's not what I'm saying. What I'm saying is it's time for a robust investigation and for the FBI to get off their ass. Enough with the COVID up. Enough with the bullshit. Enough half stepping and do what the law demands that you do. But unfortunately, what I expect is for this cover up to continue and deepen. And like usual, we'll be here every step of the way. All the information that goes with this episode can be found in the description box.
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