______• May 20, 1997 Donald Trump's instincts regarding Jeffrey Epstein were solid. Rut if the reporters who were beginning to look into Epstein's mysterious background had dug a bit further, there's a chalice they would have hit pay dirt as well—and not just in Palm Beach. In California, for instance, a paper trail already stretched from the Santa Monica Police Department to Epstein's front door. In the spring—almost the summer—of 1997, a call came in to the