Miles Allen via Facebook:
The photo below is Melania and Donald on March 12, 1999 at a New York Knicks game. Melania knows. Alex Acosta knows. The victims know. Palm Beach Police know. FBI knows. They all know.
HERE IS A TIMELINE:
1998 – Donald and Melania are introduced by Paolo Zampolli (who ran a Milan modeling agency, now works for Trump and did so as well in his previous administration) at the Kit Kat Club in New York, where Jeffrey Epstein is also in attendance.
2002 – Trump says Epstein is “fun” and “a terrific guy.”
November 2004 - Donald Trump bought Maison de L'Amitie for $41.35 million (at the same time he was filing bankruptcy for Trump Hotels and Casinos Resorts) outbidding Jeffrey Epstein. Reportedly, losing the auction angered Epstein and led to the end of their relationship; for his part, Trump later said he banned Epstein from his Mar-a-Lago club and called him a creep. (Trump sold Maison de L’Amitie to Russian Oligarch, Dmitry Rybolovlev, in 2008 for $95M, without improvements.)
January 2005 – Donald and Melania are married. Zampolli and Epstein are in attendance.
March 2005 – Palm Beach Police open investigation into Epstein sexually abusing young girls. They found the abuse was going on as early as 2002.
September 2005 - Trump and Billy Bush were on a bus on their way to film an episode of Access Hollywood. In the video, Trump described his attempt to seduce a married woman and indicated he might start kissing a woman that he and Bush were about to meet. He added, "I don't even wait. And when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. ... Grab 'em by the pussy. You can do anything."
July 2006 – Palm Beach County Grand Jury indicts Epstein on solicitation of prostitution. Palm Beach Police refer it to FBI because the local charge doesn't reflect "the totality of Epstein's conduct.”
July 2006 - Trump asks Stormy Daniels to join him for a meal. She did not want to accept the invitation but her publicist encouraged her to go. Melania Trump, was not at the tournament and had just given birth.
May 2007 – 60 more criminal counts against Epstein.
July 2007 – Epstein’s USAG Prosecutor was Alex Acosta, who later became Trump’s labor secretary, who offered to end the investigation of Epstein if he plead guilt to 2 local charges, register as a sex offender, and accept a prison term—which ended up being more like a resort with off campus working privileges—AND an NON-Prosecution Agreement. The sexual abuse of girls continues.
June 30, 2008 – Epstein pleads guilty to solicitation of prostitution and solicitation of prostitution of a minor under 18. Is sentenced to 18 months in a minimum security camp, being allowed to leave 12 hours per day.
July 7, 2008 – “Jane Doe” files a suit saying victims were not informed of the plea deal. In 2019, 11 years later, a judge ruled in their favor.
July 22, 2009 – Epstein is released after serving less than 13 months.
2010 – Epstein settles multiple civil law suits brought against him by his victims.
September 21, 2015 – Virginia Roberts Giuffre sues Ghislaine Maxwell for defamation after Maxwell called her a liar. (In 2021 Maxwell is found guilty and sentenced to 20 years.)
2016 - Melania needed a “cooling off period” after hearing, via media reports, of the president’s various scandals – including Stormy Daniels, the “Access Hollywood” tape, and Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal.
And, she allegedly leveraged the time apart to negotiate better prenup terms, particularly as related to her son Barron and ensuring his financial legacy as part of the “Trump empire.”
May 2017 – Maxwell settles Giuffre’s lawsuit, which Epstein had repeatedly avoided testifying.
May 25, 2018 - Joseph Recarey, lead detective on Epstein’s sex trafficking case in Palm Beach, Florida is found dead “after a brief illness.”
October 13, 2018 - Melania appears in public to showcase her $39 jackets that reads on the back, “I really don’t care, do you?” during a trip to a migrant CHILD detention center.
November 28, 2018 – The Miami Herald publishes a series of investigative reports into Epstein and Alex Acosta’s role in the plea deal.
December 4, 2018 – A week after the Miam Herald reports, Epstein reaches a settlement in a defamation case with attorney Bradley Edwards, who represented victims who were children at the time.
July 6, 2019 – Federal Agents arrest Epstein. He is charged with sex trafficking of minors and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking with minors.
July 9, 2019 – Trump begins to publicly distance himself from Jeffrey Epstein. Trump said in an interview, “I was “not a fan” of accused child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein — but repeatedly refused to reveal what led to a “falling out” that he now claims to have had with the wealthy financier about 15 years ago.
Trump’s comments came a day after Epstein, 66, appeared in New York federal court to face new charges that he sexually abused dozens of underage girls, some as young as 14, in his Manhattan and Florida mansions from 2002 to 2005.
Trump told reporters that he had known Epstein “like everyone in Palm Beach,” Florida.
“He was a fixture in Palm Beach,” Trump said of Epstein, who is also known for having been friends with former President Bill Clinton.
“I had a falling out a long time ago with him,” Trump said. “I don’t think I’ve spoken to him in 15 years.”
“I was not a fan of his,” Trump said.
Reporters asked Trump at least four times what caused the falling out, in particular if it stemmed from a criminal probe of Epstein in Florida in the mid-2000. But aides ushered them out of the Oval Office as Trump did not answer.
During the same photo opportunity, Trump said that he felt badly for his Labor secretary, Alex Acosta, who is facing increasing calls by Democrats to resign because of his role in a non-prosecution agreement that Epstein signed in 2008 with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Miami, which Acosta headed at the time.
Trump said that Acosta has done an excellent job as Labor secretary, and said Acosta would not have been the only person responsible for the deal with Epstein.
At the time of that deal, Epstein was being investigated both by state and federal authorities for conduct that is now the basis for the new prosecution by federal prosecutors in Manhattan.
July 12, 2019 – Acosta resigns as labor secretary, citing the Epstein case.
August 10, 2019 – Epstein is found dead, “hanged” in his cell.
August 27, 2019 - U.S. District Judge Richard M. Berman holds a hearing on a motion to dismiss the indictment against Epstein. In a remarkable move, he also says the court will hear "the testimony of victims here today" — an offer taken up by many women that day, under their own names or as "Jane Doe."
Courtney Wild, who had helped start the first proceedings against Epstein in Florida more than 10 years earlier, is among those who step forward.
"Jeffrey Epstein sexually abused me for years, robbing me of my innocence and mental health," she said. "Jeffrey Epstein has done nothing but manipulate our justice system, where he has never been held accountable for his actions, even to this day."
December 2019 – Virginia Roberts Giuffre posts on Twitter:
'F.B.I. will kill me to protect the ultra rich and well connected. I am making it publicy (sic) known that in no way, shape or form am I sucidal (sic). I have made this known to my therapist and GP. If something happens to me- in the sake of my family do not let this go away and help me to protect them. Too many evil people want to see me quiteted (sic),'
February 19, 2022 - Jean Luc Brunel, Epstein, Epstein and Trump associate, who owned “modeling agencies” that fed girls as young as 12 to the sex trafficking scheme, was found dead, HUNG in his jail cell.
August 23, 2022 - Steven Hoffenberg, fraudster and Jeffrey Epstein mentor, found dead at least 7 days after his actual death.
May 9, 2023 - A New York jury found Donald Trump guilty of sexually abusing E Jean Carroll in a New York department store changing room in 1996.
January 2024 - New York unseals 2010 deposition of Nadia Marcinoka (often referred to as Epstein’s Sex Slave). Nadia went missing just afterward.
MAY 30, 2024 - Jury Finds Donald Trump Guilty of 34 Counts
June 10, 2024 – Trump is asked if he would declassify and release the Epstein Files. Trump responds, Yeah, yeah, I would.” However, his full answer wasn't shown until it played on Will Cain's radio show.
Trump went on to say in the exchange with Campos-Duffy: "I don't know about Epstein so much as I do the others. Certainly about the way he died. It'd be interesting to find out what happened there, because that was a weird situation and the cameras didn't happen to be working, etc., etc. But yeah, I'd go a long way toward that one."
September 2024 – Trump pledges again to release the Epstein Files on Lex Fridman podcast.
March 13, 2025 - Trump’s spiritual advisor, Robert Morris (the lead pastor at Gateway Megachurch in Texas, steps down amid indictments of sexual abuse of children spanning back to the 1980s.
April 25, 2025 – Virginia Roberts Giuffre found dead in Australia.
July 7, 2025 – Trump: “Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein?”
July 16, 2025 - Maurene Comey, Prosecutor of Epstein’s case at Manhattan US Attorney’s Office, and former FBI Director James Comey’s daughter, is FIRED without given any reason.
July 21, 2025 - Roy Black, Epstein’s defense attorney who secured the 2008 plea deal, died of “an illness.”
July 22, 2025 – Epstein’s brother Mark tells CNN that his brother was “very close” with Donald Trump in the 1990s.
July 23, 2025 – White House communications director Steven Cheung said on CNN that Trump kicked Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago for “being a creep.”
July 28, 2025 - Trump told reporters at his golf property in Turnberry, Scotland, the reason for the rift was that Epstein “stole” young women who worked for his Mar-a-Lago spa in Palm Beach.
Trump didn’t specify a timeline for when it happened, but called it “such old history.” He said, “For years I wouldn’t talk to Jeffrey Epstein.”
“He stole people that worked for me. I said, ‘Don’t ever do that again.’ He did it again, and I threw him out of the place, persona non grata,” Trump said.
July 29, 2025 - Trump elaborated on his remarks from the day before, acknowledging that Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre was among spa staffers he said Epstein had poached from him.
“I think (Giuffre) worked at the spa,” Trump said aboard Air Force One. “He stole her.”
In 2009, under the pseudonym “Jane Doe 102,” Virginia Roberts Giuffre said Epstein’s convicted former girlfriend and accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, recruited her while she was a minor working at Mar-a-Lago to be the late sex offender’s masseuse. Giuffre’s family responded to Trump’s July 29 comments, saying his latest account raises questions about the president’s prior knowledge of Epstein’s criminal wrongdoing.
Giuffre spoke publicly in 2011 about her abuse, Axios reported.
Social Security records submitted to the court during Giuffre’s defamation case against Maxwell show that Giuffre was a locker room spa attendant at Mar-a-Lago in summer 2000, two years before Trump called Epstein a “terrific guy.” The precise dates and duration of her employment at Mar-a-Lago remained unclear when the lawsuit settled in 2017, ABC News reported.
When PolitiFact asked the White House for clarification about when and why Trump banned Epstein from Mar-a-Lago, Cheung said in an email, “taking employees is most definitely creepy.”
August 5, 2025 – House Oversight Committee subpoenas the Justice Department for Epstein Files.
August 6, 2025 – GLORIA ALLRED, representing Epstein Victims, ENTERS THE CHAT.
