For nearly 15 years, the two men socialized together in Manhattan and Palm Beach, Fla., before a falling out that preceded Mr. Epstein’s first arrest.
I’ll note that the basic facts here have been public for a while — the NYT ran a story about them in 2019, but they’re re-upping it in light of the WSJ’s publication of a letter to Epstein
Archived…
https://web.archive.org/web/20250719225322/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/us/politics/inside-trump-epstein-friendship.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Xk8.COvo.4tFXZGBT0EKX
I used a gift link so people should mostly not need that.
I just tried the archived link and apparently NYTimes even blocks the full article from the archive ☹️
Main reason I tried that is because, to my understanding, NYTimes gift articles are only available for 2 weeks or so.
Sigh, I tried anyways, for the good cause. 🤷
You gotta strip the gift link query params off the end, and then you get the whole article: https://archive.is/2025.07.20-123949/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/us/politics/inside-trump-epstein-friendship.html
That’s why I like archive.today better
https://archive.is/XhZz6