Mary Trump Weighs In on Her Uncle’s Jeffrey Epstein Links

Mary Trump has responded after the release of court documents involving late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein that mentioned her uncle, former President Donald Trump, among a host of other names.

Epstein was convicted in 2008 of procuring a child for prostitution and was indicted in 2019 on charges of operating a sex trafficking ring involving underage girls.

Virginia Giuffre had alleged he abused her as a minor and alleged his girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, aided in the abuse. He was found dead in his jail cell while awaiting trial, in August 2019. Maxwell was found guilty in 2021 and sentenced to 20 years in prison.

Donald Trump and Epstein had a reported friendship, with the Republican telling New York Magazine in 2002 that he’d known Epstein for 15 years and that he was a “terrific guy.”

“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. No doubt about it—Jeffrey enjoys his social life,” he said at the time.

He flew on Epstein’s private jet four times in 1993, as well as once in 1994, 1995 and 1997. Donald Trump has never been linked to offenses committed by Epstein or Maxwell.

The GOP frontrunner distanced himself from Epstein after his arrest. In 2019, Donald Trump said the two hadn’t spoken in 15 years because of a “falling out.” He said that he was “not a fan” and that Epstein wasn’t a member of his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida.

Mary Trump, a frequent critic of her uncle, challenged that narrative after his name was mentioned among the 40 filings made public on Wednesday after U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska ruled they should no longer be redacted.

One document is a deposition of Johanna Sjoberg, who said she traveled from Florida to Atlantic City, New Jersey, with Epstein and met Donald Trump there.

“Jeffrey said, ‘Great, we’ll call up Trump and we’ll go to’—I don’t recall the name of the casino, but—’we’ll go to the casino,'” Sjoberg said, according to her testimony.

While in Atlantic City, they went to one of Trump’s casinos, Sjoberg said. Sjoberg said Giuffre was not allowed into the casino because she was underage.

She was asked if she ever massaged Trump, and Sjoberg twice responded that she never did.

Donald Trump was cited in the unsealed records four times, leading his supporters to rejoice stating that the “only” times the former president is mentioned in the documents clear him of wrongdoing. Mary Trump said the Republican was “very close to Epstein.”

“Donald was very close to Epstein in the 90s,” she wrote in her Substack blog The Good in Us.

She mentioned her uncle’s New York Magazine interview and his travel on Epstein’s jets and wrote: “Defenders of Donald say there’s no connection between Donald and young girls. Perhaps it’s because the media doesn’t highlight them.”

Donald Trump’s campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung told Newsweek Mary Trump’s claims as well as those in the Epstein documents detailing their relationship were “thoroughly debunked.”

Mary Trump said that former Miss Teen USA pageant contestants aged 15 and over reported that Donald Trump walked in on them while they were changing in 1997, as reported by BuzzFeed News in 2016.

She also said a woman who claimed she was introduced to Donald Trump by Epstein in 1994 when she was 13 “sued Donald [Trump] for allegedly making her his sex slave” but dropped the suit days before the 2016 election. Her lawyer said she was forced to cancel over threats, as reported at the time.

Mary Trump appeared to reference the case filed in June 2016 in New York by a Jane Doe who alleged that Donald Trump had sexually assaulted her. An investigation by the British newspaper The Guardian found the following month that the lawsuits were apparently organized by Norm Lubow, “who has been associated in the past with a range of disputed claims involving celebrities including OJ Simpson and Kurt Cobain.”