Musk vs. Trump & The Epstein Files – The Facts – Driven By Braman Motorcars
Bottom Line: As always, there are two sides to stories and one side to facts. Here are the facts as we know them pertaining to Donald Trump and the Epstein files:
- No Epstein victims have named Trump as a perp
- Trump was never identified as having traveled on Epstein’s plane
- There are no conversational contexts involving Trump that are at all potentially salacious
In light of Elon Musk having gone nuclear in his feud against President Trump yesterday – having stated that the real reason there hasn’t been a full drop of the Epstein Files is due to Donald Trump being named – I want to walk you back to what we know. I’ll take you back to my analysis from January of 2024, following the most significant drop of Epstein file materials to date. In total 4,553 pages of documents were disclosed in that drop along with the names of 150 people.
Context is key. David Copperfield's magic tricks. Bill Clinton liking them young. Stephen Hawking’s “underage orgy”. These were all references made in the docs that were dropped in January of 2024 from the unsealed court documents naming names and associates of Jeffrey Epstein and company. And yes, the name Trump came up too as most in news media were quick to prove. But as I first mentioned when this round of info dropped nearly a year and a half ago...context is key.
Many took to the tabloid approach of throwing a bunch of names out there and letting what will stick, stick – knowing that few will ever read the actual documents. The reported narrative at the time was for example, Donald Trump, Bill Clinton and Prince Andrew were all named in the initial document drop. However, the context with which each of the three of them appear in the documents is exceedingly different. Starting with Donald Trump...The context with which he came up in the docs – at one point, well prior to any of the allegations against Epstein having come public, it’s stated that on a trip to Atlantic City: Jeffrey said, ‘Great, we’ll call up Trump and we’ll go to -- I don’t recall the name of the casino, but -- we’ll go to the casino. That’s it. That’s all that was mentioned. That’s as benign as it gets. Epstein was visiting Atlantic City and wanted to go with Trump to one of his casinos. For that matter we don’t even know if that even happened.
As for Bill Clinton...his context comes up quite differently and far more pervasively. While Donald Trump’s name came up on only in that one occasion in the context that was presented, the other former president was mentioned more pervasively and far more salaciously. In total, Bill Clinton is referenced 73 times with the context including everything from the benign to the instantly infamous quote from Jeffrey Epstein that Bill Clinton “likes them young”. And that takes us to Prince Andrew who was exceedingly well connected to this story through what we’d already seen, let alone what the docs would show.
Prince Andrew’s name came up a total of 76 times and in terms of his context – well, the 2001 picture of him with an underage victim of Epstein & Co. in Maxwell’s London home has long spoken for itself...along with the $16 million settlement he reached with said victim just three years ago.
It’s notable that Trump’s name comes up once in passing in a context that isn’t in anyway related to pedophilia. It’s notable that Bill Clinton’s name comes up only three fewer times than a royal who’s settled over the matter and, at times in a salacious context. What isn’t in the docs is anything that proves guilt or innocence...or frankly much of anything new. But there is an effort to present names in a list that largely lacks context. And aside from context with which each is presented within the doc drop there’s another important context with which I view any names associated with Jeffrey Epstein & Co. Those who were acquaintances before his conviction and those who remained acquaintances after he plead guilty to paying a 14-year-old girl for sex in Palm Beach.
Not only had Donald Trump disassociated with Jeffrey Epstein prior to Epstein’s conviction. He'd previously banned him from Mar-a-Lago as well. Bill Clinton also didn’t have anything to do with Epstein after his conviction. Bill Gates, for example, did however and his name didn’t come up in the doc drop at all (though some wonder if his name was among those redacted). And that’s part of the broader point here. The document hasn’t proven anything new. However, when evaluating who’s in it and who isn’t, context is key.
Elon Musk making the statement he did without any supporting facts stands in contrast to his personal behavior around the president – including with his youngest son – his glowing statements about Trump as recently as last week or any evidence produced to date. Elon also hasn’t indicated how it was that he theoretically came into this information. That’s an extremely important context as well.
Moreover, and this can’t be understated, Democrats impeached Trump twice, indicted him four times, conflicted him once, tried to kill him twice and shot him once. If there is any validity to Trump truly being linked to Epstein’s proclivities – they're not going to drop that to take him down? Elon Musk is either holding onto the biggest bombshell since...(well actually only January and the Biden-autopen scandal but your get the idea) or he’s engaged in one of, if not the worst, act of slander in country’s history. There are two sides to stories and one side to the facts. Those are the facts.