Disgraced and deceased financier Jeffrey Epstein died in 2019 amid numerous legal issues related to sexual crimes and pedophilia, but how deep was his relationship with former President Donald Trump?
According to White House chronicler Michael Wolff, Epstein and Trump shared a deep and longstanding friendship.
Wolff has ended years of silence just days before the 2024 presidential election by revealing that Epstein was a source for his best-selling book, "Fire and Fury."
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The Daily Beast uncovered hundreds of hours of recorded conversations between Epstein and Wolff, in which the late financier details the inner workings of Trump's White House.
The news outlet recently released a recording of a 2017 restaurant meeting between Wolff and Epstein.
In the recording, Epstein allegedly reveals that Trump's "people" would be pitted against one another, continually in conflict.
"He would tell ten people that Bannon is a scumbag, Priebus isn't doing a good job, and Kellyanne has a big mouth; she's too much of a wildcard," he stated.
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Epstein described the dynamic as Trump "kind of poisoning the well from the outside."
Trump reportedly told Bannon he wanted to keep him on but said, "Kellyanne hates you."
Although the former president has denied any close ties to the deceased financier, Michael Wolff exposed the lie earlier this week when he published photographs of Trump posing with topless young girls.
Trump, 78, has previously expressed positive opinions about Epstein over the years.
In a 2002 interview with New York Magazine, he noted that his former buddy had a preference for "younger" women.
While Trump initially praised the late Epstein, he has distanced himself from the former financier since his arrest on July 6, 2019—just two weeks before authorities confirmed his death by suicide while in custody.
More recently, during a podcast appearance with Lex Friedman, Trump referred to the convicted sex trafficker as a "good salesman."
The allegations made by the author have been vehemently denied by the Trump campaign, which called him a "disgraced writer who consistently fabricates lies to sell fiction books because he clearly lacks morals and ethics."
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A spokesperson for Trump said: “He waited until days before the election to make outlandish false smears all in an effort to engage in blatant election interference on behalf of Kamala Harris. He’s a failed journalist that is resorting to lying for attention.”
Wolff noted that during their 2017 interview, Epstein expressed fear of former friend Donald Trump.
“When Epstein and I were talking about this, Trump was now the president of the United States, and I think that was frightening. Because the most inappropriate person to be the president of the United States was probably Donald Trump.."
“But I couldn’t help but feel a level of personal fear there.”
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The author mentioned that he had urged Epstein to publicly share all the information he had confided in him, but Epstein refused to do so.
"So, in the end, he died in prison, and we’ll probably never hear that story,” Wolff remarked.
