Narcissistic sociopaths don't have friends in any real sense of the word but he was "friends" for years with Epstein and only broke up when Epstein poached minors from his club for his own uses, uses which Trump clearly knew all about.
Trump would have known all about these contacts being in the Epstein files before the 2024 election yet he still said he'd release them. Just face the truth, his name is all over those files and he was either complicit in the abuse or knew about it and did nothing, which is almost as unforgivable.