President Donald Trump's hometown of New York City is reminding the public of just how closely tied he is to deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in a new stunt.
According to The Daily Beast, an art gallery in the Tribeca neighborhood of Manhattan "was transformed into the 'Donald J. Trump & Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room,' where every document the federal government has released related to Epstein — arguably the country’s most infamous pedophile — can be found. The free installation will close on May 20, but not without a theatrical farewell."
Trump's face looms at the entrance to the exhibit, noted the report, with "a blown-up version of one of the now-infamous photos of Trump and Epstein is visible immediately upon entering the gallery." The image is accompanied by a timeline of the relationship between Trump and Epstein, who allegedly once called Trump his "closest friend."
"Dreamed up by Democratic political commentator Eliza Orlins and two nonprofit organizations — the Save America Movement and the Institute for Primary Facts — the goal is to read aloud '1,400 minutes of testimony for the 1,400 [Epstein] victims bound into nearly 4,000 books of evidence,'" said the report.
The president, who spent months of his second term fracturing his base and resisting bipartisan efforts to release the Epstein files after MAGA made it central to their agenda, has denied his relationship with Epstein was that close, and claims he kicked Epstein out of his club when he started stealing away young girls from his golf club — though the timing of his claims doesn't add up.
More recently, Trump sued the Wall Street Journal for reporting that he gave Epstein a lewd poem in his birthday book, although that litigation was dismissed last month.