Researchers just read all 1.39 million DOJ Epstein documents. Every one. Here is what
they found on Trump.
40 documents. Not 40 damning documents. 40 documents total — every sworn
deposition, every FBI interview, every flight log entry, every civil complaint, every media
reference of any kind linking Trump to Epstein in the largest document production in
DOJ history.
The number is the story. But the documents themselves tell it better.
THE FRIENDSHIP WAS REAL
Trump and Epstein were Palm Beach neighbors and Manhattan social circle fixtures in
the 1990s.
Trump called him a terrific guy in 2002. The friendship existed and must be stated
plainly, because everything that follows only makes sense if you understand that.
THE FALLING OUT WAS ALSO REAL
Around 2004, it ended. Brad Edwards – the attorney who represented Epstein's victims
and investigated every lead for years — established under oath that Trump banned
Epstein from Mar-a-Lago after Epstein sexually assaulted an underage girl at the club.
There is no documented contact between Trump and Epstein after 2004. Not one email.
Not one call. Not one schedule entry. In 1.39 million documents.
THE INVESTIGATION FOUND NOTHING
The FBI flagged every document mentioning
Trump across the entire corpus by order of the bipartisan Senate Judiciary Committee.
The result: one allegation, one victim who refused to cooperate, no prosecution.
The SDNY had Trump's phone records. They found an innocuous 2001 call alongside
explicit trafficking procurement. They charged nothing.
Attorney General Barr under oath: "I was never informed of the evidence, and I'm
skeptical there is any.
If they had evidence, this would've been low-hanging fruit."
Brad Edwards, who had every reason and every incentive to find evidence against
anyone connected to Epstein, filed an affidavit:
"We have no information that Trump spoke to Epstein about any of the specific victims
of his molestation."
And when Edwards was reaching out to powerful men in Epstein's orbit, Trump was the
only one who picked up the phone and returned his call.
Readily. He knew what Epstein was and wanted to talk about it.
THE COMPARISON.
Bill Gates: 2,265 documents. Multiple confirmed meetings. Donations routed through
Epstein. Boris Nikolic named in Epstein's will.
Bill Clinton: 1,586 documents. 147 sexually explicit messages with Maxwell. Multiple
confirmed island visits. Flights confirmed by the pilot ten to twenty times.
Reid Hoffman: 1,976 documents. Slept at Epstein's Manhattan mansion.
Leon Black: 667 documents. $158 million paid to Epstein across a decades-long
financial relationship.
Donald Trump: 40 documents. Zero financial transactions. Zero island visits. One
commuter flight in 1997. A friendship that ended in 2004 when he drew the line and had
Epstein removed from his property. The only person in the orbit who returned the
victim's attorney's call.
Trump's entire file is 1.8% the size of Gates's.
"A man who was part of an early social world he did not yet completely understand –
who, when the investigation came, banned the predator from his club, picked up the
phone for the victim's attorney, and was cleared by every investigative body that
looked."
1.39 million documents. Every citation verifiable.
John Michael Chambers
M.A. Rothman
