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5 hours ago
- News.com.au
What are Donald Trump's alleged links to Jeffrey Epstein?
The uneasy history between Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein is back in the spotlight after Elon Musk threw fuel on his feud with the US President by suggesting he is 'in the Epstein files'. Musk's bombshell claim was littered among a stream of erratic tweets attempting to discredit Trump, as the two former allies locked horns in one of the more embarrassing online skirmishes seen this year. '@realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public,' Musk wrote. 'Have a nice day, DJT!' No evidence has been produced by Musk to support the allegation. There is no suggestion that Donald Trump was involved in Epstein's crimes. What is known, however, is that Trump and Epstein were photographed together on multiple occasions throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, and appeared to move in the same social circles during that time. One video shows Trump welcoming Epstein at a party with a throng football cheerleaders attending in 1992. Court documents also show Trump flew on Epstein's private jet several times, mostly between Florida and New York. A 2002 quote from Trump was unearthed during the Ghislaine Maxwell case, where the billionaire was heard describing Epstein as a 'terrific guy'. 'It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side,' Trump said at the time. Trump then distanced himself from Epstein, reportedly barring him from Mar-a-Lago in 2004 after Epstein allegedly attempted to recruit a staff member. The two men reportedly fell out over competing bids for real estate in Florida. Attorney-General Pam Bondi has said the FBI is reviewing tens of thousands of Epstein-related documents, with more expected to be made public soon. Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino echoed that on Fox News this week, saying additional files will be released after redactions. Trouble in paradise Musk's swipe comes amid growing hostility over Trump's proposed economic policies. The president accused Musk, who was very recently directing Trump's Department of Government Efficiency, of opposing his plans to cut EV subsidies and raise the federal debt ceiling. Musk responded by saying Trump's administration should 'go ahead, make my day' and cut SpaceX contracts. Musk has repeatedly mentioned the 'Epstein list' in recent months, a vague term often invoked online referring to sealed court documents related to Epstein's criminal activities. While some Epstein files have been released, most remain sealed to 'protect ongoing investigations' and victim privacy. The public record reflects no criminal accusations against Trump in connection to Epstein, and his past association with the financier is not unique among high-profile businessmen of the era. But Musk's sudden 180 on the US President has raised further questions. How did the world's richest man go from dancing around at campaigns, claiming civilisation would collapse if Trump lost the election, to accusing him of being linked to Epstein? Suspicions were multiplied when Musk arrived for a news conference at the Oval Office with a black eye and a black DOGE cap. The Tesla boss told the media it had occurred while playing rough with his youngest child. Trump later claimed Musk went 'crazy' when he learned an electric vehicle 'mandate' was being scrapped. 'Elon was 'wearing thin',' Trump said, declaring he had booted Musk from the White House. 'I asked him to leave, I took away his [electric vehicle] mandate that forced everyone to buy electric cars that nobody else wanted (that he knew for months I was going to do!), and he just went CRAZY! 'The easiest way to save money in our budget, billions and billions of dollars, is to terminate Elon's government subsidies and contracts. 'I was always surprised that Biden didn't do it!' The Epstein files In February, a personal address book of Jeffrey Epstein's was released by Trump's Justice Department, which included a new list of celebrities and politicians whom the pedophile financier had in his phone. Among the famous names released by the Department of Justice: Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson, actor Alec Baldwin, Ethel Kennedy — the mother of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., supermodel Naomi Campbell and rocker Courtney Love. Thursday's unveiling was comprised of over 100 pages including a contact list that belonged to the convicted pedophile financier. The list is not 'a client list,' but includes names of people on Epstein's vast contact list. While the list of names were revealed, their addresses and contact information were redacted. The vast majority of names on the list — if not all of them — had been previously reported in the years of lawsuits and document leaks in the case. The US Attorney-General claimed the FBI has withheld 'thousands of pages' of critical documents relating to Epstein, demanding the bureau provide 'full and complete' access. In a fiery letter to FBI Director Kash Patel, Attorney-General Pam Bondi said she had only received 'approximately 200 pages of documents' which consisted of flight logs, contact lists and victim's names related to Epstein, despite requesting access to the 'full' files. 'I repeatedly questioned whether this was the full set of documents responsive to my request and was repeatedly assured by the FBI that we had received the full set of documents,' Ms Bondi wrote in the letter. 'Late yesterday, I learned from a source that the FBI Field Office in New York was in possession of thousands of pages of documents related to the investigation and indictment of Epstein.'
News.com.au
8 hours ago
- News.com.au
Venezuelan family feels full force of Trump's crackdown
Mercedes Yamarte's three sons fled Venezuela for a better life in the United States. Now one languishes in a Salvadoran jail, another "self-deported" to Mexico, and a third lives in hiding -- terrified US agents will crash the door at any moment. At her zinc-roofed home in a poor Maracaibo neighborhood, 46-year-old Mercedes blinks back tears as she thinks about her family split asunder by US President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown. "I wish I could go to sleep, wake up, and this never happened," she says, as rain drums down and lightning flashes overhead. In their homeland, her boys were held back by decades of political and economic tumult that have already prompted an estimated eight million Venezuelans to emigrate. But in leaving, all three brothers became ensnared by politics once more, and by a US president determined to bolt the door of a nation once proud of its migrant roots. For years, her eldest son, 30-year-old Mervin had lived in America, providing for his wife and six-year-old daughter, working Texas construction sites and at a tortilla factory. On March 13, he was arrested by US immigration agents and summarily deported to a Salvadoran mega jail, where he is still being held incommunicado. The Trump administration linked Mervin and 251 other men to the Tren de Aragua -- a Venezuelan gang it classifies as a terrorist group. Washington has cited tattoos as evidence of gang affiliation, something fiercely contested by experts, who say that, unlike other Latin American gangs, Tren de Aragua members do not commonly sport gang markings. Mervin has tattoos of his mother and daughter's names, the phrase "strong like mom" in Spanish and the number "99" -- a reference to his soccer jersey not any gang affiliation, according to his family. - The journey north - Mervin arrived in the United States in 2023 with his 21-year-old brother Jonferson. Both hoped to work and to send some money back home. They had slogged through the Darien Gap -- a forbidding chunk of jungle between Colombia and Panama that is one of the world's most dangerous migration routes. They had trekked north through Mexico, and were followed a year later by sister Francis, aged 19, who turned around before reaching the United States and brother Juan, aged 28, who continued on. When the brothers entered the United States, they registered with border officials and requested political asylum. They were told they could remain legally until a judge decided their fate. Then US voters voted, and with a change of administration, at dawn on March 13, US immigration agents pounded the door of an apartment in Irving, Texas where the trio were living with friends from back home. Immigration agents were serving an arrest warrant when they saw Mervin and said: "You are coming with us too for an investigation," Juan recalled. When the agents said they had an arrest warrant for Mervin too, he tried to show his asylum papers. "But they already had him handcuffed to take him away," Juan said. He was transferred to a detention center, where he managed to call Jonferson to say he was being deported somewhere. He did not know where. Three days later, Jonferson saw his brother among scores of shorn and shackled men arriving at CECOT, a prison built by El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele to house alleged gang members. Jonferson saw his handcuffed brother kneeling on the floor staring off into space. He broke down crying and called his mother. She had also seen Mervin in the images. "My son was kneeling and looked up as if to say: 'Where am I and what have I done to end up here?'" said Mercedes. "I have never seen my son look more terrified" she said. - The journey south - After his brother's arrest, Jonferson had nightmares. The fear became so great that he fled to Mexico -- what some euphemistically describe as "self-deportation". There, he waited a month to board a Venezuelan humanitarian flight to return home. "It has been a nightmare," he told AFP as he rode a bus to the airport and from there, onward home. Juan, meanwhile, has decided to remain in the United States. He lives under the radar, working construction jobs and moving frequently to dodge arrest. "I am always hiding. When I go to the grocery store I look all around, fearful, as if someone were chasing me," he told AFP asking that his face and his whereabouts remain undisclosed. As the only brother who can now send money home, he is determined not to go back to Venezuela empty-handed. He also has a wife and seven-year-old son depending on him. But he is tormented by the thought of his brother Mervin being held in El Salvador and by the toll it has taken on the family. "My mother is a wreck. There are days she cannot sleep," Juan said. "My sister-in-law cries every day. She is suffering." - The journey home - Jonferson has since returned to Maracaibo, where he was greeted by strings of blue, yellow, and red balloons and a grateful but still forlorn mother. "I would like to be happy, as I should. But my other son is in El Salvador, in what conditions I do not know," Mercedes said. But her face lights up for a second as she hugs her son, holding him tight as if never wanting to let him go. "I never thought the absence of my sons would hit me so hard," she said. "I never knew I could feel such pain." For now, the brothers are only together in a screen grab she has on her phone, taken during a video call last Christmas.
ABC News
14 hours ago
- ABC News
What are the Epstein files? Trump and Musk bromance blows up with 'really big bomb'
The friendship between the President of the United States and the world's richest man has crashed in flames and descended into stoush, which began over a disagreement about national debt, peaked on Thursday when Elon Musk accused Donald Trump of not disclosing files relating to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein due to personal allegation, presented without evidence, highlights the deepening rift between the two men and harks back to old reports about Mr Trump's links to the high-profile sex what to know. In short, it stems from a disagreement over a section of Mr Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act. While the 1,038-page document proposes hundreds of changes, the one Mr Musk takes issue with is a plan to raise the federal debt ceiling by $US 4 trillion to $40 trillion. Mr Musk argues that the government should be working to reduce its deficit and raising the debt ceiling would enable it to do the opposite. Mr Trump suggested the Tesla billionaire also opposed a measure that would scrap electric vehicle subsidies, telling his social media followers Mr Musk "just went CRAZY" when he axed the subsidies for "Electric Cars that nobody else wanted". Over three hours on Thursday, the once-allies engaged in a war of words via their own social media platforms, with Mr Trump's comments on Truth Social and Mr Musk's on X. As their disagreement escalated, Mr Trump threatened to torch government contracts with Mr Musk's companies — most prominently, SpaceX. "The easiest way to save money in our Budget, Billions and Billions of Dollars, is to terminate Elon's Governmental Subsidies and Contracts," Mr Trump wrote. In return, Mr Musk invited the president to "go ahead, make my day". The billionaire followed up 21 minutes later with a "really big bomb". "@realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public," Mr Musk fired off on X. "Have a nice day, DJT!" he added, referring to the president by his initials. Mr Musk did not provide any evidence to substantiate the claim, but went on to share posts by others with little comment. The posts hinted at the past relationship between Mr Trump and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who took his own life in prison after being arrested on a string of trafficking charges in 2019. The term refers to a collection of evidence gathered by investigators working on the multiple criminal cases brought against Epstein and his associates. While many court documents have been made public — including flight logs for Epstein's private jet — others remain sealed. Some conspiracy theorists have suggested the FBI withheld the documents to cover up the guilt of Epstein's high-profile associates, though being named in the documents would not necessarily be proof of wrongdoing. Since returning to the White House, the Trump administration has released some Epstein files and promised more would follow. Attorney-General Pam Bondi said in May that the FBI was reviewing "tens of thousands" of documents related to Epstein. She said materials would be released once necessary redactions had been made to protect victims and any ongoing investigations. FBI deputy director Dan Bongino told Fox News on Wednesday — before Mr Musk made his accusations on X — the FBI would be releasing more Epstein-related documents in the coming weeks. It's known the pair were friends for almost two decades but there is no publicly available evidence suggesting Mr Trump engaged in illegal activity with Epstein. The pair were photographed together at parties and Mr Trump's private golf club Mar-a-Lago during the 1990s and early 2000s. Mr Trump flew on Epstein's private jet a number of times in the 1990s, mostly between Florida and New York, according to documents released as part of the trial of his associate Ghislaine Maxwell. In 2002, the future president told New York Magazine that he'd "known Jeff for 15 years" and described the financier as a "terrific guy". "He's a lot of fun to be with," Mr Trump said at the time. Florida-based businessman George Houraney, who was a mutual connection of the pair, said he warned Mr Trump about Epstein "going after younger girls" ahead of a "calendar girl" competition held at Mar-a-Lago, according to the New York Times. Mr Trump and Epstein ultimately had a falling out in 2004 over competition for Florida real estate. The president reportedly told associates he later barred Mr Epstein from Mar-a-Lago for attempting to recruit a woman who worked at the club. Mr Musk did not provide evidence of any criminal activity by the president, nor any new evidence about the nature of his relationship with Epstein. The financier was a convicted sex offender accused of abusing and trafficking underage girls. He pleaded guilty and was convicted in 2008 of procuring a child for prostitution and of soliciting a prostitute. He was arrested in 2019 on sex trafficking charges, but died by suicide in his jail cell before he could face trial. His associate, Oxford-educated heiress Ghislaine Maxwell, is currently serving 20 years in prison for helping him target and sexually abuse vulnerable young girls and women. Epstein and Maxwell orbited numerous famous people, including politicians, celebrities and academics. It's alleged he "lent" girls to his high-profile associates and kept blackmail material of their sexual exploits. One of Epstein's alleged victims, Virginia Giuffre, publicly claimed Epstein and Maxwell forced her to have sex Prince Andrew in 2001 — an allegation the Duke of York has consistently denied. It is alleged many of Epstein's crimes were carried out on his private island, Little St James, in the Virgin Islands, which he travelled to and from by private jet. The jet's published flight logs have drawn substantial public interest because they list the names of who Epstein travelled with and their destinations. While flight logs have shown Mr Trump travelled on Epstein's jet, they do not mention a visit to Little St James.
