For a committed NeverTrumper, opposing Donald Trump apparently excuses anything — including cultivating convicted sex criminals.
According to a Politico review of documents related to the now-deceased Jeffrey Epstein, Juleanna Glover, a Washington political insider with a long history of opposing Donald Trump’s political rise, engaged with Epstein for more than a year before his death in a federal prison cell.
Her defense now for the relationship? It was all about getting Trump.
The time frame for Glover’s extensive emails with Epstein was from late May 2017 to five months before his body was found in the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan in August of 2019.
When it started, Trump was in his first term, with Republican majorities in both houses of Congress, the “Russia collusion” smear was still gathering steam, the COVID nightmare was far in the future, and NeverTrumpers — conservatives and Republicans who swore they would “never” support Trump — were looking for every bit of ammunition they could use against his expected re-election bid.
Glover and Epstein were introduced by author Michael Wolff, another anti-Trump figure who was acquainted with both.
“I rolled the dice when Michael Wolff asked me to meet with Epstein against the backdrop of Epstein talking publicly about Trump,” Glover told Politico in a statement.
“My interactions with Epstein were in service to that objective; not to help him in any way or improve his image. Wolff was seemingly positioning me as someone smart enough for him to take advice from.”
At the time, Trump and Epstein had been estranged for years. Epstein had been convicted of soliciting a minor for prostitution and was a registered sex offender.