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Trump steps on World Cup winner’s moment before Infantino ushers him from Spain photo
(www.the-independent.com)
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The last actual friend Trump had was his mentor, Roy Cohn. Cohn had been Joe McCarthy's attack dog during the Red Scare, and went on to become one of the most hated lawyers in New York.
Epstein used Trump, but I think even Jeff would have been hard pressed to come up with something nice to say about Donnie.
Cohn was using him.
Cohn ran Joe McCarthy's 'Lavender Scare'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavender_Scare
They put his name on the AIDS quilt.
Agreed. Jeff had plenty to say about Donnie -- or "Donni Tee" -- and after the party ended, you're right. None of it good in his later years. On several occasions he pointed out how much worse a human being he thought Trump was compared to himself.
This Epstein email to Larry Summers (one of several along the same lines) pretty much sums it up:
That's Jeffrey Epstein saying that about Donald Trump.
Roy Cohn is another one, and very difficult to eclipse in terms of personal assholery, but I do think at this point the teacher is probably eclipsed by the student.
Trump threw Epstein under the bus when Jeff and Ms. Maxwell got arrested.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sofiachierchio/2026/02/09/trump-reportedly-called-police-about-epstein-in-2006-said-ghislaine-maxwell-was-evil/
Yes, they had their falling out around that time. Thanks for the article, I had not seen that yet. But Maxwell didn't get arrested until 2020. Epstein got arrested for the first time in 2006 and was convicted on a single charge of solicitation, for which he did a minor stint on work release jail.
But Epstein also called Trump "the dog that hasn't barked" after he finished his that work-release prison time. This was in 2011 when Epstein was trying to rebuild his social standing, in an email chain with Maxwell, as if to suggest that of all the accusing voices now surrounding Epstein, Trump's was strangely absent.
Some people took that to mean Trump was complicit (and he surely was) but as it was a post-conviction statement by Epstein, I always took it to mean he thought Trump was involved in getting him busted. YMMV, of course.