Jeffrey Epstein plotted to ‘let Donald Trump hang himself’ at the height of the 2016 presidential campaign, according to explosive new emails.
The emails, released by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday, show that the late pedophile referred to Trump in correspondence with Ghislaine Maxwell and the author Michael Wolff over a period of at least eight years.
Wolff recorded over a hundred hours of conversation with Epstein from roughly 2014 to 2019 and described their contact as a working relationship for several major book projects, including Fire and Fury – an account of the first Trump administration.
The author emailed Epstein with the subject line ‘heads up’ on December 15, 2015 – the day of a Republican primary debate televised by CNN.
‘I hear CNN planning to ask Trump tonight about his relationship with you – either on air or in scrum afterwards,’ Wolff told the billionaire financier.
Epstein asked Wolff if he should help prepare an answer for the then-presidential candidate, but the author advised the billionaire financier that he should allow Trump to answer himself because his response could yield political capital.
‘If we were able to craft an answer for him, what do you think it should be?’ Epstein asked.
Wolff responded, ‘I think you should let him hang himself. If he says he hasn’t been on the plane or to the house, then that gives you a valuable PR and political currency.
Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump at the Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, in 1997
Michael Wolff recorded over a hundred hours of conversation with Epstein from roughly 2014 to 2019, and described their contact as a working relationship for several major book projects, including Fire and Fury – an account of the first Trump administration
‘You can hang him in a way that potentially generates a positive benefit for you, or, if it really looks like he could win, you could save him, generating a debt.
‘Of course, it is possible that, when asked, he’ll say Jeffrey is a great guy and has gotten a raw deal and is a victim of political correctness, which is to be outlawed in a Trump regime.’
The Daily Mail has contacted Wolff for comment.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt called the email dump a politically motivated ‘smear’ campaign which had selectively redacted Virginia Giuffre’s name from the documents.
She is referring to an email dated April 2, 2011, in which Epstein wrote to Maxwell: ‘i want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is trump.. virignia [sic] spent hours at my house with him, he has never once been mentioned. police chief. etc. im 75% there.’
Maxwell replied: ‘I have been thinking about that…’
The wider set of documents released by the committee included a 2018 email exchange between Epstein and former Obama White House lawyer Kathryn Ruemmler.
Ruemeller had sent Epstein a link to a New York Times op-ed about Michael Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer, who had recently pleaded guilty to violating campaign finance laws related to hush money paid to adult star Stormy Daniels.
In response, the financier wrote: ‘You see, I know how dirty donald is. My guess is that non lawyers ny biz people have no idea. What it means to have your fixer flip.’
In the Democrats’ original email dump the name Virginia was replaced with ‘VICTIM.’
‘The Democrats selectively leaked emails to the liberal media to create a fake narrative to smear President Trump,’ Leavitt said in a statement.
‘The “unnamed victim” referenced in these emails is the late Virginia Giuffre, who repeatedly said President Trump was not involved in any wrongdoing whatsoever and ‘couldn’t have been friendlier’ to her in their limited interactions.’
Giuffre, who committed suicide earlier this year, was recruited by Maxwell while employed as a spa attendant at Mar-a-Lago Club in 2000. She was 16 years old.
Trump expelled Epstein from his club around October 2007 ‘for being a creep to his female employees, including Giuffre,’ Leavitt said.
Giuffre said in her posthumous memoir that the President never did anything wrong.
Michael Wolff emailed Epstein with the subject line ‘heads up’ on December 15, 2015 – the day of a Republican primary debate televised by CNN
The communications were released after Democrats subpoenaed Epstein’s estate earlier this year.
Trump did not send or receive any of the emails, and he has not been charged with any crime in relation to Epstein or Maxwell.
In another email between Epstein and Wolff in January 2019, the convicted sex offender refers to his expulsion from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club.
‘Trump said he asked me to resign,’ Epstein wrote, adding, ‘never a member ever. . of course he knew about the girls as he asked to Ghislaine to stop.’
The President revealed new details about his split from Epstein in July, saying he banned the financier from Mar-a-Lago for poaching spa employees, including Giuffre.
Speaking aboard Air Force One during a trip to Scotland, Trump said Epstein twice hired away workers despite being warned, prompting him to declare Epstein ‘persona non grata.’
In a recent interview with attorney Todd Blanche, Maxwell reiterated that Trump ‘did nothing wrong’ and was never involved in Epstein’s criminal activities.
The White House remains under pressure to release Epstein-related Justice Department files.
House Republicans have subpoenaed Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year sentence, and her lawyers are now seeking immunity in exchange for testimony before Congress.
The House is set to return to Washington on Wednesday to end the government shutdown – and a vote on the Epstein files is likely to come once members are back in town.
