Royal Biographer Warns Trump Will Face Same Epstein Fate as Prince Andrew

Teflon Trump might not face criminal charges, the Epstein connection will always be a stain on his reputation, royal biographer Andrew Lownie warned.

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"The questions will keep coming, whether he likes it or not,” Andrew Lownie on Donald Trump’s decade plus friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.

Teflon Trump might not face criminal charges, the Epstein connection will always be a stain on his reputation, royal biographer Andrew Lownie warned.

Lownie’s new book The Rise and Fall of the House of York devotes a chapter to his links to the disgraced sex trafficker, which Lownie says ruined Andrew’s public life and he sees the same fate for Trump if new details emerge.

"The Epstein connection destroyed Andrew's public life – and Trump risks the same fate if fresh details emerge,” Radar Online reported in an exclusive.

Andrew reached an out-of-court settlement with accuser Virginia Giuffre in 2022.

Trump had denied knowing the Duke of York, but Lownie pointed out there is photographic evidence of Trump with Andrew at Mar-a-Lago on February 12, 2000.

The picture also captures Epstein and his s-- trafficking fixer Ghislaine Maxwell among the guests. Asked about their relationship, Lownie said: "Yes, there's photographic evidence of them together."

Lownie thinks that Trump “will get away with it” as he does everything else, but "But the Epstein connection will always be there, just as it is for Andrew."

He thinks the stain of the relationship will plague him for the rest of his public life as it has Andrew, with the Royal Family always worried about what Epstein-related information might surface about the King’s brother, which Lownie thinks mirrors the “anxiety” among Trump’s base.

"If there's one thing history shows, it's that proximity to Epstein stains reputations permanently,” he warned. And while Trump might not suffer immediate consequences, Lownie thinks the “shadow” will not fade.

Neither Trump nor Andrew have been accused of criminal activity related to Epstein and both deny any wrongdoing.

Trump’s supporters often try to claim that former President Joe Biden could have released the Epstein Files, but that is false, as the files were under federal court orders during his presidency.

The Trump DOJ will provide Congress documents from the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking investigation.

“The records are to be turned over starting Friday to the House Oversight Committee, which earlier this month issued a broad subpoena to the Justice Department about a criminal case that has long captivated public attention, recently roiled the top rungs of President Donald Trump’s administration and been a consistent magnet for conspiracy theories,” PBS reported Tuesday.

However, Kentucky Republican James Comer is running the committee that asked for these documents and he’s trying to investigate Joe Biden for some (partisan, hack, deflect, protect Trump) reason, so we shouldn’t expect much from this “investigation” other than more talking points trying to smear Biden, whose name has never been suggested to be on the Epstein files, with the stench of Donald Trump’s consistently creepy associations.

Comer has asked for “communications from the case files of Epstein and Maxwell. It also demanded records about communications between Democratic President Joe Biden’s administration and the Justice Department regarding Epstein, as well as documents related to an earlier federal investigation into Epstein in Florida that resulted in a non-prosecution agreement.”

This looks like more covering-up for Trump than a legit investigation. Why isn’t Comer investigating what documents Trump asked the FBI to redact his name from? A legit investigation would be doing that.

Former Trump personal lawyer and Deputy AG Todd Blanche interviewed Maxwell last month and then she was moved to “country club prison”, aka a minimum-security prison camp (Federal Prison Camp Bryan) in Texas. Blanche also defended Trump during his 2024 criminal trial.

"It is very concerning when you have someone who was formerly the president's personal lawyer then getting involved to possibly assist the president in protecting his own image in this — when he should be acting in a disinterested way for the Justice Department to ensure that justice is done here and that the interests of the American people are served,” Claire Finkelstein, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania law school told NPR in an article that delved into how unusual a top DOJ official’s direct involvement was.