Is This Meme About Trump and Epstein Accurate? | Snopes.com --> --> Snopes Now available in the app store! Open Log in to activate your ad-free access. It looks like you might have a Snopes membership! Log in to enjoy your ad-free experience. Log In From Snopes You're browsing with fewer ads for the next 24 hours, thanks to our sponsor . Learn more → --> --> Fact Check Is This Meme About Trump and Epstein Accurate? A social media meme sought to exonerate U.S. President Donald Trump from any connection with Jeffrey Epstein's sex crimes. David Mikkelson Published Aug. 21, 2020 Image courtesy of Screen capture, Facebook Claim: A meme provides information exonerating U.S. President Donald Trump from any connection with Jeffrey Epstein's sex crimes. Rating: Mixture About this rating What's True Trump raised an issue with the Palm Beach City Council about segregated private clubs, eventually barred Epstein from Mar-a-Lago, and voluntarily provided information to assist some of Epstein's victims build a case against him. What's False Trump did not "sue Palm Beach for being racist," nor did he "out Epstein as a pedophile" in 2002. On July 6, 2019, financier Jeffrey Epstein -- who in 2008 had plead guilty to felony sex-related charges in Florida and was required to register as a sex offender as a result -- was again arrested on felony sex trafficking charges. Although Epstein committed suicide in his jail cell several weeks later, rumors and accusations continue to fly about which high-profile persons who were friendly with Epstein may have known about, or even participated in, illegal sexual activities with minors taking place at Epstein's so-called " Pedophile Island in the U.S. Virgin Islands (and elsewhere). One prominent celebrity who often socialized with Epstein beginning in the latter part of the 1980s was Donald Trump, who by the time of Epstein's 2019 arrest had become President of the United States. Although Trump and Epstein apparently had long since ceased