Trump and Epstein partied together. Then an oceanfront Palm Beach mansion came between them.

[Zorro]

For the better part of two decades starting in the late 1980s, Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump swam in the same social pool. They were neighbors in Florida. They jetted from LaGuardia to Palm Beach together. They partied at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club and dined at Epstein’s Manhattan mansion.

And then, in 2004, they were suddenly rivals, each angling to snag a choice Palm Beach property, an oceanfront manse called Maison de l’Amitie — the House of Friendship — that was being sold out of bankruptcy.

Before the auction, Epstein and Trump each tried to work the ref; the trustee in the case, Joseph Luzinski, recalls being lobbied by both camps.

“It was something like, Donald saying, ‘You don’t want to do a deal with him, he doesn’t have the money,’ while Epstein was saying: ‘Donald is all talk. He doesn’t have the money,’ ” Luzinski said. “They both really wanted it.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/donald-trump-and-jeffrey-epstein-partied-together-then-an-oceanfront-palm-beach-mansion-came-between-them/2019/07/31/79f1d98c-aca0-11e9-a0c9-6d2d7818f3da_story.html

My my my....

[Grasswire2]

1. we talked about that here on DU several weeks ago

Catch up, WaPo!!

[SharonAnn]

2. It wasn't morals. It was money! Not a surprise.

[EarthFirst]

3. Neither one probably had the money to be honest...

Both involved in shoddy financial record keeping and illiquid to the verge of bankruptcy; it was a bluff on both their parts or the transaction would have been immediate and deliberate.

Both are fools; criminals and morally corrupt individuals.

There are no friends among thieves...