Best Friends In Infamy: The Statue Of Trump And Epstein, And The Art That Won’t Be Silenced - Fedlan News | FN Newsroom
Best Friends in Infamy explores the Trump and Epstein statue, a protest artwork the government tried to silence but couldn’t. In 2002, Donald Trump gave a quote that today lands like a grenade. Speaking to New York Magazine about Jeffrey Epstein, Trump said, “I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy. He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.” At the time, it read like another breezy Trumpism—cocky, careless, sprinkled with his usual mix of bragging and boundary-pushing. But reread it in the shadow of Epstein’s crimes, and it stops being harmless banter. It becomes evidence. It becomes the sort of line prosecutors circle in red ink. Because if Trump knew Epstein’s taste in “younger” women was more than a rumor, and if he never reported it, that could make him complicit. Misprision of felony, obstruction, accessory—whatever the statute, the deeper crime would be silence. This isn...