The late billionaire and sexual blackmailer Jeffrey Epstein, who said shortly before he was suicided that he introduced the former first couple, broke his friendship with Trump because he thought the guy was "dishonest."
Donald Trump, Melania Knauss, Jeffrey Epstein, and Ghislaine Maxwell pose together at the at the Mar-a-Lago club, Palm Beach, Florida. Davidoff Studios/Getty Images
Jeffrey Epstein said he stopped hanging out with Trump 'when he realized Trump was a crook,' according to his brother
* Jeffrey Epstein hinted at his fallout with Donald Trump in an unaired interview, according to his brother.
* "He stopped hanging out with Trump when he realized Trump was a crook," Mark Epstein told Insider.
* Trump and Jeffrey Epstein were friends for years, and the nature of their fallout remains hazy.
Jacob Shamsian
Business Insider, March 11, 2023
Jeffrey Epstein said in an unaired interview that he distanced himself from former President Donald Trump after realizing Trump was "a crook," according to his brother, Mark Epstein.
Mark Epstein told Insider he viewed a clip of the interview, conducted by Trump's former White House advisor Steve Bannon, after his brother forwarded it to him in the spring of 2019.
At the time, Bannon was conducting filmed interviews with the now-dead pedophile financier. Bannon sent Jeffrey Epstein a Dropbox link to a clip, which he forwarded to his brother. The link is no longer active, according to Mark.
"Jeffrey showed me the link to one of these interviews," Mark Epstein said. "And in that interview, Jeffrey said he stopped hanging out with Trump when he realized Trump was a crook."
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