It's OBVIOUS that Trump and Epstein weren't friends. They were socializing, but this was all Epstein trying to leach off Trump's fame.
The statements from Epstein victims in the published FBI records show that Epstein was bragging about "being friends with Trump", but that Trump did not seem to be all that happy about seeing him, when Epstein tried to meet him.
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