# Will Jeffrey Epstein's "friends" face justice? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [August 4, 2020, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-jeffrey-epsteins-friends-face-justice/917242 "2020-08-04T11:49:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 299
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-jeffrey-epsteins-friends-face-justice/917242/299 "2025-07-21T16:49:49Z")
> [@OldOlds](#): > > Not sure why this is a tough concept for them, but would you really be shocked if both Trump AND Clinton were up to no good? Bill Clinton had just come off the Lewinsky scandal and he says he never visited the island. It would not surprise me if he did _not_ do any sexual misconduct. It would be disappointing if _the evidence_ showed flight logs with him traveling to the island and that would merit further journalistic investigation. But I would think such evidence would have already been leaked _or turned up via eyewitness accounts_ if it exists. Probably. A fair amount of evidence has already been leaked after all. In contrast, Maria Farmer’s interviews with the FBI have not been released. She implicated Trump in them in 1996 and 2006. > [@The Epstein Files Question](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-epstein-files-question/1020997/58): > > Trump is listed in government files. In 1996 Maria Farmer went to the NY Police Dept, then the FBI to complain about Epstein, and suggested that law enforcement investigate Epstein’s associates, very much including Donald Trump. She repeated that during a 2006 FBI interview. Gifted: [https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/us/politics/epstein-employee-trump-investigation.html?unlocked\_article\_code=1.X08.E4WN.KCNmUdcx809Z&smid=url-share](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/us/politics/epstein-employee-trump-investigation.html?unlocked_article_code=1.X08.E4WN.KCNmUdcx809Z&smid=url-share) Regarding the possible splintering of the MAGA base conservati… Would it surprise me if a Democratic politician was a guest at Epstein’s island? No, though I’d be interested in how that came about. Trump makes sense as he was a wealthy sex pest at the time. How many guests at a time stayed on Epstein island? How big was the staff? Why did Epstein like to hob-nob with academics, given his ignorance about science as related by his chemist friend? As I stated upthread, I’m not familiar with a lot of the basic facts of this story. ETA: > [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > As mentioned above, it’s unlikely that there’s any indication of Trump getting busy with an underage girl Maybe not in the files, but there are allegations of that. Snopes gives the rundown. > **[What We Know About Origins of Trump Child Rape Allegations](https://www.snopes.com/news/2024/09/03/trump-epstein-katie-johnson/)** > > A viral photo is new, but the claim is old. It's connected to a former producer for "The Jerry Springer Show." --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-jeffrey-epsteins-friends-face-justice/917242)._