Trump knew.
| DEAN OBEIDALLAH AUG 24, 2025 |
Ghislaine Maxwell did what I thought was impossible. She made Donald Trump look even more guilty when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes.
That is my takeaway after reading the transcript of Maxwell’s testimony taken by Trump’s personal lawyer Todd Blanche—who now serves as second in command of DOJ. Yet we don’t see corporate media connecting the dots so let me do that here.
Let’s start with this simple truth: Maxwell is a vile person. She was charged and successfully prosecuted by Trump’s own DOJ during his first term with five felonies in connection with a child sex ring that spanned at least from 1994 to 2004. At the trial, evidence was presented that the victims were as young as 14 years old when they were groomed and abused by Maxwell and Epstein. As prosecutors stated at time of Maxwell’s sentencing, “Epstein could not have committed these crimes without her.” And let’s be clear, Maxwell personally molested the children as was proven at her trial. That is the person Trump wished “well” when she was arrested in 2020.
During Maxwell’s two days of recent testimony to Trump’s lawyer, she lied countless times that contradicted facts proven at her trial. She also served up BS that Trump was a “gentleman” and praised him—obviously all to get a pardon from him.
But there are several places Maxwell didn’t have any incentive to lie –and that is where she hurt Trump. First her testimony revealed that Trump was friends with Jeffrey Epstein before she ever met Epstein. She testified, “I met Mr. Epstein in 1991.” In contrast, Trump told New York magazine in 2002 he had been with friends with Epstein since the 1980’s. “I’ve known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy,” Trump stated. He then added the infamous line, “He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”
These facts help us understand why Maxwell testified that Epstein would go to Mar-a-Lago without her. Maxwell explained, about Epstein, “he didn’t take me with him all the time.” She added, “he would go alone.” This shows us just how close Trump and Epstein were during the height of the child sex ring—which prosecutors proved ranged from 1994 to 2004.
In fact, during the Maxwell trial, one victim testified that she was just 14 years of age when Epstein brought her to Mar-a-Lago and introduced her to Trump in the mid-1990’s. Apparently, Epstein was so close to Trump that he even introduced him to a child he was raping.
Trump claims he had a falling out with Epstein in 2004 after he learned Epstein had “stolen” a young girl from Mar-A-Lago who worked for him. Trump recently confirmed the girl in question was Virginia Giuffre, who was 16 years of age at the time Maxwell recruited her for Epstein.
Convicted child sex trafficker Maxwell also gushed about how much she enjoyed going to Mar-a-Lago, testifying that she “loved going there.” She added that she especially loved going to the spa. (That is where she found Virginia Giuffre.)
Maxwell testified she “may” have first met Trump in 1990 via her father, the then famed publisher Robert Maxwell. But what we do know from photos and videos is that Maxwell was seen in footage in 1992 at Mar-a-Lago standing behind Trump and Epstein. From there, we’ve seen photos of Trump and Maxwell together—often without Epstein—from the mid 1990’s to mid 2000’s.
What else was happening in that exact time frame? Maxwell and Epstein were running their child sex ring. As Trump’s own DOJ told us in July, their review of the Epstein files “confirmed that Epstein harmed over one thousand victims.”
I’ve asked even before the Maxwell testimony was released: How could Trump not know that his close friend Epstein was not involved in molesting and raping girls given there were very close during the years of Epstein child sex ring? This is especially questionable given there were more than one thousand victims.
Also raising alarm bells was that in 2024, Trump was caught lying about being a passenger on Epstein’s plane known as “The Lolita Express”–which he often used to transport girls as young as 14 years of age to various locations so he could have sex with them. As a reminder, In January 2024, Trump wrote on social media: “I was never on Epstein’s Plane.”
That lie was destroyed in Maxwell’s trial where flight logs were introduced that showed he was a passenger numerous times. In addition, the DOJ released flight logs from earlier this year that tell us Trump flew on “The Lolita Express” at least eight times between 1993 and 1997. (When is the last time you heard corporate media reporters raise this lie?!)
The flight logs that mention Trump raise questions about who else was on the flights? For example, there was a flight with Epstein, Maxwell, and five others from Palm Beach, FL to Newark, NJ on January 5, 1997. But who were the other passengers? Same question for a flight with Epstein and one other person from Teterboro, NJ to Palm Beach, FL on April 23, 1993.
But on several of those flights, the logs tell us that Trump, Epstein and Maxwell were together for hours in the midst of the biggest child sex ring in U.S. history on the very plane used to traffic children for sex.
Now we have Maxwell telling us that she was also close with Trump during the time Epstein and Maxwell were recruiting, grooming, molesting and raping children. All of this is why polls taken before the Maxwell testimony was even released found nearly 50% of Americans believe Trump “was involved in crimes allegedly committed” by Epstein. Only 32% believe Trump was not involved in Epstein’s crimes—which is Trump’s base. (23% have no opinion.) The percentage of Americans who believe Trump was implicated in Epstein’s crimes would certainly rise if corporate media would press Trump and cover this story instead of following Trump’s distractions.
At this point, it’s simply impossible to believe Trump didn’t know what his two close friends were up to given all the time they spent together, Trump being introduced to Epstein’s 14 year-old date and more. Yet he never called the police. Instead, Trump allowed evil to grow and more children to be raped.
