Suspects Suspect

Donald Trump

The 45th and 47th President of the United States. A man whose relationship with Jeffrey Epstein spans decades, whose business empire was built on fraud, and whose return to power has accelerated the dismantling of every institution designed to stop him.

149 pieces on the record

The record

Connections

See the full evidence boards connecting this suspect to others in the network.

Trump and MuskTwo men rewriting the rules of American power in real time. One dismantles oversight from the executive branch. The other runs a shadow government through DOGE. Together they have more unchecked authority than any two people in modern American history.
Trump and EpsteinFor two decades they ran in the same Palm Beach circles, attended the same parties, shared the same social network. One died in federal custody before his client list could be unsealed. The other is back in the White House.
Trump and VanceThe billionaire class needed a loyal voice inside the White House - they got two. Trump holds the megaphone; Vance holds the ideology. Neither answers to the voters who put them there.
Trump and MaxwellBoth denied knowing each other well. Both lied. The paper trail connecting them spans two decades of parties, photographs, and a social network built on complicity and silence.
Trump and BondiShe took $25,000 from Trump while her office was weighing an investigation into his university. She declined to prosecute. Now she’s the country’s top law enforcement officer - protecting the same networks she learned to ignore in Florida.
Trump and RubioOnce called Trump a dangerous con man. Now runs his foreign policy. The transformation required only one thing: understanding who had the power to end his career - and submitting to it completely.
Trump and ThielThe tech billionaire’s money built the infrastructure; the president provided the access. Two men who share a vision of governance without accountability, operating at the highest levels of both government and capital.
Trump and BannonThe strategist and the front man. Bannon built the ideological architecture; Trump provided the platform. When Bannon was indicted for fraud, the pardon came on Trump’s last day in office. That’s the deal.
Trump and LeavittThe youngest press secretary in history, built from the ground up as a loyalty instrument. Her job is to make the administration’s most indefensible actions sound routine. She has no independent credibility to lose.
Trump and KushnerSon-in-law and senior advisor. Kushner moved through the White House with full security clearance and no relevant experience, brokering deals with foreign governments while creating intelligence vulnerabilities that have never been fully investigated.
Trump and Kash PatelTrump installed his loyalist at the FBI - not to lead it, but to weaponize it.
Trump and KavanaughTrump packed the court. Kavanaugh was his pick. The court now protects the administration from accountability.
Trump and Prince AndrewTwo men who moved in Epstein’s orbit and both benefited from the cover-up that followed.
Trump and SCOTUSTrump built a court designed to protect him. These essays trace how.
Noem and TrumpKristi Noem and Donald Trump: a loyalty arrangement that turned into a deportation operation.
Trump and PutinThe Kremlin’s favorite mark. Intercepted calls, broken ceasefires, Russian propaganda repeated at American press conferences.

Ghislaine Maxwell The whole lineup Elon Musk