{"id":18970,"date":"2026-06-06T00:18:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T00:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/?p=18970"},"modified":"2026-06-06T00:18:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T00:18:50","slug":"people-point-out-similarity-between-ivanka-trumps-new-private-island-and-epstein-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/?p=18970","title":{"rendered":"People point out similarity between Ivanka Trump\u2019s new \u2018private island\u2019 and Epstein Island"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ivanka Trump\u2019s revelation about transforming Albania\u2019s Sazan Island into a vast luxury destination has become a lightning rod for suspicion and anger. Her promise to \u201cpreserve natural beauty\u201d collides with fears of another elite playground sealed off from ordinary people, and with a fragile ecosystem already under pressure. Flamingos, seals, and sea turtles have become symbols in a fight over who the Mediterranean is really for: wildlife and locals, or billionaires and their guests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The comparisons to Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s infamous island, fueled by old photographs and long-circulated rumors, speak less to proven facts than to a deep public distrust of the ultra-wealthy and politically connected. For supporters, opening Sazan after decades of military use sounds like overdue progress. For critics, it feels like history trying to repeat itself in a new sea, with new names, and the same old shadows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ivanka Trump\u2019s revelation about transforming Albania\u2019s Sazan Island into a vast luxury destination has become a lightning rod for suspicion and anger. Her promise to \u201cpreserve natural beauty\u201d collides with fears of another elite playground sealed off from ordinary people, and with a fragile ecosystem already under pressure. Flamingos, seals, and sea turtles have become &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18972,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18970\/revisions\/18972"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}