He—the president, their leader, the martyr who had endured scandals and prosecution and an assassin’s bullet on their behalf—had repeatedly told them it was time to move on, and that alone should suffice. Why, he groused, would the White House add fuel to the fire, would it play into the media’s narrative?

Maria Farmer, who once worked for Epstein, told The New York Times that she had encountered Trump in Epstein's Manhattan offices in 1995.