The story Epstein never told: How a CEO tried to unlock his secrets about Trump

The chief executive of a corporate consultancy firm claimed in a Wednesday editorial for The Washington Post that she “courted” the late child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein

“Writer Michael Wolff asked me during the 2016 presidential primary season if I could spur reporters to ask Donald Trump about his relationship with Epstein,” wrote Juleanna Glover, the CEO of Ridgely Walsh, a corporate consultancy. “I was well aware that Epstein had been convicted in 2008 in Florida for soliciting prostitution, including from someone underage, amid allegations that he had sexually abused teenage girls.”

Glover added, “Wolff intimated that Epstein might say something in response that would seriously complicate Trump’s election prospects.”

The CEO went on to describe several attempts to both elicit information from Epstein on her own and to connect him with a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, James B. Stewart, in the hope of learning about his connection to Trump.

“I never actually connected Epstein to Stewart, but Stewart recently told me that he had heard Epstein had asked to talk to him (the Justice Department files show another Times reporter communicating with Epstein at the same time),” Glover wrote. “In Stewart’s Times article, he wrote that, after the initial meeting, Epstein tried to recruit him to write his biography, an assignment the journalist declined. Then came Epstein’s arrest and suicide. ‘I’m left to wonder,’ Stewart wrote. ‘What might he have told me?’”

She added, ruefully, “I almost got it done. I almost got Epstein to tell his story to a formidable reporter, one not likely to let Epstein slither away from revealing what he knew about ‘powerful people.’ My efforts, episodic but serious, over the course of more than a year, foreshadowed what has become a national obsession: What did Jeffrey Epstein know about Donald Trump?”

Despite attempting to suppress national attention into his connection with Epstein, Trump has faced pushback from some congressional Republicans as well as most Democrats because of those ties. In a seeming attempt to distract from the war, Trump has engaged in a number of high profile military engagements in Venezuela and Iran, but these have only served to fracture his MAGA base. Meanwhile Trump has said he is “saddened” by the fates of Epstein associates like the former UK prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, raising more questions about his ties.

“Trump is saddened by any embarrassment to the royal family,” wrote William Kristol of the conservative publication The Bulwark last month. “And there is no evidence the Trump administration has any interest in seeing justice done, or any intention of having the truth come out. We have an executive branch that is on the side of the Epstein class, not the Epstein survivors.”

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