It's not a competition on who was more active with Epstein. Fact is, Trump had been active with Epstein. You have to be very naive to believe that Trump had no clue about what was happening on the island. Of course he's going to try to disassociate himself from Epstein when running for President was in his scope.
Vox is not my go-to, I think you lose all credibility when making assumptions that just by posting an article from a certain news source, that I may have lost all credibility.
And yes, context matters. At that time I wouldn't have given the joke any thought. Now in hindsight, I realize that it's anything but a funny joke.
Look, I voted for Trump myself and I feel that a great portion of the population have been utilized. You need to wake up to the fact that Trump is out there for nothing but himself.
He's stated that as President he can do anything that he wants, and brags about being able to flatten out a foreign country in 10 days, with the high death toll that would come with it (what if you were from Afghanistan and heard that ****). I now see the dangers behind the rise of Trump when people are willing to roll with anything their dear leader says, no matter how unethical, amoral it may come across, the "send her back" chants come to mind. Anyway you do you, I don't expect to change your mind.