Jeffrey Epstein Set Up Meetings With Trump Associates—Including Peter Thiel And Thomas Barrack—Before 2016 Election, Report Says

Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted child rapist and blackmail operative set up several meetings with people close to former President Donald Trump in the lead-up to the 2016 presidential election, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday, including billionaire PayPal and Palantir cofounder Peter Thiel—raising speculation that Epstein sought to penetrate Trump’s orbit as his political prospects were on the rise.