This is how much money Trump’s lawyer made defending Jeffrey Epstein during his first prosecution
The numbers don’t lie: Trump’s lawyer made an eye-watering amount of money defending the friend of the president.
Jeffrey Epstein was a convicted pedophile and, as the evidence appears to show, a very close friend of Donald Trump. So tight were the pair that the now dead sex offender actually labelled the President his “closest friend for 10 years”; Trump himself called Epstein a “terrific guy” who was “a lot of fun to be with.”
Donald wrote at least one birthday card to Epstein: a dreamy scribble of a female figure replete with cryptic messages of “things in common”, “enigmas”, and “wonderful secrets”.
Videos and photos exist of the duo throughout the decades: parties, dinners, meetings, and more, they appeared inseparable as they mingled with the highest of society.
Despite this, Trump will claim that his relationship with the sex offender was nothing more than an ultimately failed friendship, and that he distanced himself from Epstein for a number of years.
But the links remain: Trump’s lawyer from when he was impeached for the first time also took care of Jeffrey Epstein’s case that saw him given an easy ride after being convicted of sexually abusing dozens of girls between ages 14 and 16.
Epstein was hit with state felony charges for soliciting prostitution, while federal prosecutors were weighing a case that could have locked him away for life.
Enter Alan Dershowitz. Trump’s lawyer helped engineer an eyebrow-raising bargain: then–U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta, running the Southern District of Florida, signed off on a deal that wiped away the looming federal case. In return, Epstein would admit guilt on the lesser state charges, shielding him from the far harsher consequences.
The so-called punishment that came out of the deal was strikingly lenient. Epstein was handed an 18-month sentence but spent his days outside jail on “work release,” returning only to sleep. In the end, he served barely 13 months before walking free. The agreement also required him to register as a sex offender and provide restitution to more than 30 victims uncovered by the FBI. You do the math.
In fact, don’t. Because it’s already done: court records show Epstein burned through more than $50 million on legal bills across a decade and for his work, Dershowitz was handed a healthy sum of around $4 million.
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Epstein, of course, didn’t live to see another trial. Arrested again in 2019 on federal sex trafficking charges, he was found dead in his Manhattan jail cell weeks later. At least the FBI are working on releasing his file, right?
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