Donald Trump‘s relationship with the late Jeffrey Epstein has been beneath a microscope recently over the Epstein recordsdata … and TMZ has now unearthed an interesting video of the 2 males watching a boxing match on the Trump Taj Mahal nearly 3 a long time in the past.

Take a look at the footage … which does not present something untoward, however it’s nonetheless tremendous attention-grabbing seeing Trump and Epstein sitting close to one another near the ring the place George Foreman is duking it out with Shannon Briggs on the casino-hotel in November 1997.

In the course of the heavyweight championship combat, Trump is seen yapping with everybody seated round him, together with Epstein — who, at one level, seems to be chuckling at one thing the longer term forty seventh president stated.

Trump and Epstein share one other second within the video, speaking over a bunch of individuals with their heads turned towards one another. However, like we stated, there’s completely nothing nefarious in any of this.

In actual fact, the clip already confirms what we’ve got identified for a very long time … Trump and Epstein knew one another years in the past and even palled round a bit. Sources with direct information inform TMZ … Trump’s identify additionally pops up greater than a number of instances within the Epstein recordsdata, however there’s nothing within the file that implicates Trump in any wrongdoing.

We’re advised Trump seems repeatedly in flight logs, touring on Epstein’s jet from New York Metropolis to Florida, the place each males had residences and Trump nonetheless does — his Mar-a-Lago resort.

What’s extra, Trump’s interactions with Epstein got here method earlier than Epstein’s first indictment in 2006 associated to soliciting an underage sufferer for prostitution in Florida. And everybody is aware of what occurred to Epstein later in a Manhattan federal lockup.

In fact, that is all set in opposition to the backdrop of the Trump administration’s botched rollout of the Epstein recordsdata, which has put not solely the Commander-in-Chief on the recent seat, however his closest aides as properly.