Ben

He had to sell his property.

Epstein was going to buy it for $32 or $33 million.

he brought trump over to the property in 2004 asked trump for advice about what he should do with the pool the foreclosure sales the next day donald trump rather than helping epstein with the pool they were best friends trump outbids epstein and does it and and doesn't all cash offer for 41.5 and it was a blind bid so epstein's like how did i lose i had this thing said i was gonna win

And he goes, my best friend?

My best friend outbid me on the property?

What the hell?

I brought you over.

And Trump's like, eh, you know, I just fell in love with the property.

Four years later, Trump sells the property for $95 million to a Russian oligarch named Dmitry Rybalov.

Three years after that, Rybalov destroys the property, demolishes it, never really uses the property.

Donald Trump barely did any upgrades to the property.

So Epstein,

By the way, they were still kind of friends.

Epstein was pissed at Trump after that, but they still kind of hung out.

Epstein was quoted in page six of the New York Post, wasn't hiding it.

After he was arrested in 2007, he said, yeah, I'm not banned from Mar-a-Lago.

I go there all the time.

But when the Russian oligarch bought the property, Epstein's like, oh, I see what you did.

And Epstein thought it was either money laundering or some shenanigans is what Epstein was telling people, that there was some shady business with Trump doing this deal with the Russian, even that maybe the Russian helped Trump buy it in all cash originally as well, and that there was a way to move Russian money into the United States or clean money.

That's what Epstein was telling people.