A ‘racy’ birthday letter, ‘terrific guy’ to not a ‘fan’: Mapping Trump’s relationship with Epstein over the years

Amid growing pressure on US President Donald Trump to release ‘Epstein files’, a Wall Street Journal report has claimed that the Republican leader sent a bawdy letter to the disgraced financier for his 50th birthday in 2003. Trump once called Jeffrey Epstein a ‘terrific guy’. But in 2019, he said he was not a ‘fan’ of the convicted sex offender. Did they have a fallout?

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