I believe Trump wasn't just a friend, or even a client of Epstein, but rather a partner in the business,

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5. Trumpstein files and international operation.

They were friends and fellow perverts.
They had a falling out because Trump is the worst of the worst according to Epstein and he certainly knew them all. Trump wanted access to the clients Epstein had and his influence and leverage over them. He already knew many and they helped him become POTUS. Both Epstein and Trump are connected to Putin.
Epstein became a liability to Trump. Epstein was killed.
Trump's FBI raided Epstein's properties and seized troves of files, photographs and recordings.
Trump failed securing a second term because of the mail-in votes which could not be altered.
Trump staged an insurrection, but his VP refused to co-operate. He was supposed to be a stooge.
Trump used all his compromised connections and was reinstalled to the White House in a myriad of ways including using Trumpstein client Musk.
Trump and his family are gathering billions by leveraging all the material they have accessed from Epstein's troves and rewarding fellow perverts with enormous contracts and access to U.S. data and classified intel.
Trump (and family) thinks he has become too powerful to fail. The powerful and compromised men in the world have been propping Trump up to protect themselves and their criminal enterprises--even while Trump is physically and mentally deteriorating.
This is becoming the biggest scandal we have ever seen. Even our media is owned by members of the Trumpstein network.