Before President Trump wished Ghislaine Maxwell ‘well,’ they had mingled for years in the same gilded circles

Washington Post logoThey were two larger-than-life wealthy businessmen — one trying to break into the New York scene, the other a symbol of the city’s brash excess.

So it was natural that when British media mogul Robert Maxwell threw a party in New York on the deck of his luxury yacht the Lady Ghislaine — named for his youngest daughter — he would invite Donald Trump, the city’s tabloid-friendly developer.

As guests mingled and drank during the 1989 bash, Maxwell greeted Trump privately in the wheelhouse and gave him a tour of the craft, recalled David Adler, who was then the head of public relations at Maxwell’s publishing house. Continue reading.

Fox News regrets ‘mistakenly’ editing Donald Trump out of photo with Jeffrey Epstein

AlterNet logoFox News on Monday confirmed that the network had edited President Donald Trump out of a photo in which he appeared with convicted sexual offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The incident occurred during a broadcast on Sunday covering the arrest of Epstein confidant Ghislaine Maxwell.

In a statement to Raw Story on Monday, Fox News said that it regretted “mistakenly” excluding Trump from the photo. Continue reading.