On Thursday (July 31), President Donald Trump gathered a number of athletes, together with NFL Corridor-of-Famer Lawrence Taylor on the White Home. The transfer raised eyebrows, given Taylor’s turbulent historical past as a intercourse offender and the continuing controversy over the administration’s lack of transparency with information associated to intercourse trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and Trump’s personal ties to the late financier.
Taylor was current together with Kansas Metropolis Chief kicker Harrison Butker {and professional} golfer Bryson DeChambeau to turn out to be members of the President’s Council on Sports activities, Health, and Diet. The previous New York Large was arrested in 2010 on rape and prostitution prices associated to the assault of a 16-year-old woman in upstate New York. He pleaded responsible in 2011 to 1 depend of soliciting a prostitute and a second depend of sexual misconduct in having intercourse with a girl with out consent. Taylor acquired six years of probation and was ordered to register as a intercourse offender. He could be arrested in 2021 in Broward County, Florida, for failing to report a change of residence as a intercourse offender, and be charged once more in 2024 for a similar offense. In each instances, prosecutors closed the case.
When requested about Taylor’s presence, Trump replied: “Acknowledged to be the best defensive participant within the historical past of the NFL, a pal of mine for a very long time. Too lengthy, proper Lawrence? Lawrence Taylor, he’s an unimaginable man and simply been my pal a very long time. Knew him eternally.” Taylor stumped for Trump final yr at a rally on the Jersey Shore. When reporters pressed him about Epstein and his personal admission that the financier took women from Mar-a-Lago and the reasoning behind it, the president replied: “No, I don’t know actually why, however I mentioned, if he’s taken anyone from Mar-a-Lago, he’s hiring or no matter he’s doing, I didn’t prefer it. And we threw him out.”
The state of affairs wasn’t acquired nicely on social media. “On the day Virginia Guiffre’s household is talking out about how survivors are handled like trash, right here’s who’s within the White Home,” wrote MSNBC host Chris Hayes in a submit on X, previously Twitter. In one other submit, TheMaineWonk wrote, “Jeffrey Epstein’s finest pal of 10 years, President @realdonaldtrump hosted registered intercourse offender Lawrence Taylor on the White Home immediately. That is my shocked face.
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