A garish statue of President Trump and late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein was mysteriously erected on the National Mall Tuesday – and removed by Wednesday morning.
The bronze sculpture stood about 12 feet tall and appeared to show both men in a merry dance with Trump’s left hand gripping Epstein’s right.
One of the plaques under the figures read: “We celebrate the long-lasting bond between President Donald J. Trump and his ‘closest friend’ Jeffrey Epstein” and attributed the stunt to an anonymous group called “The Secret Handshake.”
“We’re a very small group of citizens who are using art, irony, and humor to express social commentary and spark political conversation in public spaces,” the group told USA TODAY.
US Park Police hauled the installation away before daybreak Wednesday, telling WUSA 9 that it wasn’t in compliance with a permit that initially allowed it to remain through Sunday evening — though the department did not specify the issue.
Democrats have tried for months to make political hay of the friendship between Trump and Epstein, despite the fact that the future president had cut ties with the disgraced financier by the mid-2000s, years before Epstein faced criminal prosecution for sex trafficking and child prostitution.
Since the FBI and DOJ released a July 6 joint memo concluding that Epstein, 66, killed himself while awaiting federal trial on Aug. 10, 2019, and did not keep a “client list” of rich and powerful friends who shared his prediliction for girls as young as 14, the Trump administration has faced pressure to release all files related to the case.
Last week, former South Florida US Attorney Alex Acosta spoke to the House Oversight Committee to explain a sweetheart plea deal Epstein received in exchange for pleading guilty in 2008 to Florida state charges of solicitation of prostitution and procurement of minors for prostitution.
Under the terms of that deal, Epstein only served 13 months — much of that time on work release.
“Liberals are free to waste their money however they see fit—but it’s not news that Epstein knew Donald Trump, because Donald Trump kicked Epstein out of his club for being a creep,” the White House told Time magazine in a statement.
“Democrats, the media, and the organization that’s wasting their money on this statue knew about Epstein and his victims for years and did nothing to help them while President Trump was calling for transparency, and is now delivering on it with thousands of pages of documents.”
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