Arresting Jeffrey Epstein Is Just the Start

Arresting Jeffrey Epstein Is Just the Start

Terrific guy,” the then-socialite Donald Trump told New York in 2002, in a profile of Jeffrey Epstein. The quote is stunning to read today, after Epstein’s arrest for the sex trafficking of minors, and an indictment that alleges he repeatedly recruited and abused victims as young as 14 years old. Why would Trump, in the same breath that he noted the financier’s preference for women “on the younger side,” liken himself to Epstein?