They were at least acquainted with each other. They may have been friends but I don't know if they were close friends.
The think I learned about Epstein is that his primary interest in the rich and powerful is black mail. In fact his underage sex slavery was his secondary business and a tool to which he could use to blackmail people. He was a real sleazeball of the worst kind.
I'm not saying Trump was flawless. I think Trump was a bit of a scumbag in his earlier years. But what do I know. I'm just some guy on the internet who has never even met Trump. He just seems to be more committed to Melania than his previous wives.
But there are a lot of scummy people who would never ever even consider molesting a child. They are repulsed by it. I think Trump is one of those who is repulsed by pedophilia.
That's why after 4 years of Biden, if there was anything in the Epstein files on Trump it would have been the lead story of every news network for over a year or two. The left faked a story about Russia collusion and the media ran with it everyday for Trump's entire term in office.
In addition the the Democrats (most like under the direction from Nancy Pelosi) fomented a riot and then exaggerated it as an insurrection so they can try to twist something, anything, in a speech Trump gave. The idea was the use the 14th amendment on his to stop him from ever holding any public office ever again.
Then they tried to keep Trump off of the ballots in several states. They tried to assassinate him, twice. They fabricated one lawsuit after another trying to make something stick to him, regardless if he committed any crime or not.
They tried and tried and tried and tried over an over to try to pin anything they could on him. So if Trump was in the Epstein I am 100% confident that we would have known about it years ago.