One of Jeffrey Epstein’s former cellmates has made a bombshell revelation about the infamous financier and President Donald Trump.
According to the ex-cellmate, prosecutors made Epstein a striking deal: implicate Trump for your freedom.
Epstein was arrested on child sex trafficking charges in July 2019. During this time, Trump was nearing the end of his first term in the White House.
After his arrest, the notorious sex trafficker received a prison sentence at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan, as the Post reported.
Epstein’s former cellmate, Nicholas Tartaglione, revealed an even darker aspect of the Epstein saga, highlighting possible political angles that had not been previously known.
In a pardon application to the Post, Tartaglione said that prosecutors told Epstein they would drop the charges against him if he implicated Trump in his horrific crimes.
“Prosecutors … told Epstein that if he said President Trump was involved with Epstein’s crimes he would walk free. in a petition to be pardoned,” he claimed.
“Epstein told me that [lead prosecutor] Maurene Comey said that he didn’t have to prove anything, as long as President Trump’s people could not disprove it. According to Maurene Comey, the FBI were ‘her people, not his [President Trump’s],’” he added.
Epstein was reportedly told he could go free if he implicated Trump, though he declined.
Tartaglione said that Epstein told him Trump was not involved in any of his crimes.
When Epstein was sentenced to prison, the Department of Justice was headed by Attorney General William Barr, whom Trump appointed.
Barr has clashed with Trump in years past.
Most notably, the former attorney general disputed the president’s claims that the 2020 presidential election was “stolen,” calling such comments “detached from reality.”
That’s not all.
Barr also rebuked the president over the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol protests and supported the Biden-led DOJ’s investigation into the president’s actions on that day.
“I think it’s a legitimate case,” Barr said in 2023, adding, “There was very grave wrongdoing here, and I think it’s reasonable to say that it falls within the obstruction of a proceeding.”
Tartaglione’s revelations demonstrate a possible political attempt to bring down Trump’s presidency in 2019 by trying to get Epstein to say that the president participated in horrific sex crimes.
If Epstein had implicated Trump, the president’s administration would have likely suffered significantly, similar to the Watergate Scandal that rocked then-President Richard Nixon’s presidency, effectively leading to his resignation in 1974.
The Trump administration has been criticized by conservatives and liberals alike for its delays in releasing the highly anticipated Epstein files.
Specifically, Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel have faced considerable criticism for their inaction in releasing the files as previously promised.
