On the first point,  Epstein was NOT a friend.  And neighbors you can’t always pick.

When Epstein apparently tried to solicit a Mar-a-Lago employee who was around 18 years old, Trump/Mar-a-Lago banned him, according to Page Six in 2007.

Meanwhile, the Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach last night confirmed a Web site report that Epstein has been banned there. “He would use the spa to try to procure girls. But one of them, a masseuse about 18 years old, he tried to get her to do things,” a source told us. “Her father found out about it and went absolutely ape-[bleep]. Epstein’s not allowed back.”

And when the lawyer for some of the victims, Brad Edwards was subpoenaing people and trying to get information, he said Trump was one of the only people who voluntarily talked to him in 2009, provided information and helped him in the case against Epstein.