SCANDALS UPDATED JAN. 9, 2024 What the Jeffrey Epstein Documents Reveal About Donald Trump

For weeks, speculation has been building about which famous and powerful figures would be tarnished by the Jeffrey Epstein scandal when court documents from a years-old case related to the disgraced financier were made public. And while Epstein’s black book contained a staggering number of A-listers and high-society pals, perhaps the biggest question surrounding the court documents’ unsealing is what they reveal about Donald Trump.

The hype escalated on the afternoon of January 3, when Mark Epstein said that three years before his brother died in jail while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges, he told him he knew secrets that could blow up the presidential election between Trump and Hillary Clinton.

“Here’s a direct quote: ‘If I said what I know about both candidates, they’d have to cancel the election.’ That’s what Jeffrey told me in 2016,” Mark Epstein told the New York Post.

Wild stuff! But of course, Mark Epstein said he doesn’t know what information his brother was referring to. And while Trump and Bill Clinton (who have both denied any Epstein-related wrongdoing) are both mentioned in the court documents that were made public a short time later, there was no smoking gun that could have upended a previous presidential race or Trump’s current reelection bid.

But questions about Trump’s ties to Epstein persist, as the convicted sex offender is now a conspiracy-theory fixture, and more court records are set to be released in the coming days and weeks. Here’s a running list of revelations from the newly unsealed documents, and what we’ve already learned about Trump’s friendship with Epstein.