Donald Trump Was On the Epstein List.

Did anyone expect otherwise?

Lauren Elizabeth
3 min readJan 5, 2024
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One way or another, whether you’ve been watching CNN or Aaron Rodgers on the Pat McAfee Show on ESPN making his ridiculous comments, most of us have heard that the Jeffrey Epstein “associates” list was going to be released. Well, it finally was, and we now know a number of names of people that Epstein was involved with in at least some capacity.

Of course, as was expected, Donald Trump was named.

Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling with The New Republic writes:

“The first series of Jeffrey Epstein documents have been released, and as expected they name Donald Trump. And how is the country’s social media–obsessed former president responding? Well he’s gone surprisingly mute.

Donald Trump’s last slew of posts on his Twitter-dupe social media platform TruthSocial seemed like an effort to flood his MAGA followers’ timelines with unrelated content. In a series of rapid-fire posts Thursday morning, Trump shared endorsements for his presidential campaign as well as a slew of videos from news outlets validating his legal strategy in his upcoming criminal trials. He also made more than two dozen posts attacking E. Jean Carroll, all within the span of half an hour…”

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Lauren Elizabeth

Lauren is a writer & leftist with analysis on topics related to politics & policy. She can be reached at LaurenMartinchek@gmail.com or Twitter @xlauren_mx