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To: longz who wrote (1497721)	11/2/2024 11:00:31 PM
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Trump’s Horrific Friendship With Jeffrey Epstein Revealed in New AudioA damning, newly released recording exposes just how close Donald Trump was to Jeffrey Epstein. Edith Olmsted/ November 1, 2024/6:20 a.m. ET newrepublic.com Davidoff Studios/Getty Images Explosive new audio reveals that Donald Trump detailed how he really felt about his White House staff to Jeffrey Epstein, and Epstein touted old photos of Trump with half-naked women taken at the site of the pedophile’s rampant sexual abuse of young girls. On author Michael Wolff’s Thursday episode of his podcast Fire and Fury, Wolff shared a recording of a conversation with Epstein from 2017, in which the convicted sex offender and alleged human trafficker recounted Trump’s true feelings about members of his administration, The Daily Beast reported. “His people fight each other and then have outsiders—he sort of poisons the well outside,” Epstein told Wolff. Epstein went on to paraphrase Trump’s candid statements about his former strategist Steve Bannon, former chief of staff Reince Priebus, and counselor Kellyanne Conway. “He will tell 10 people, ‘Bannon’s a scumbag’ and ‘Priebus is not doing a good job’ and ‘Kelly has a big mouth’—what do you think? ‘Jamie Dimon says that you’re a problem and I shouldn’t keep you. And I spoke to Carl Icahn. And Carl thinks I need a new spokesperson,’” Epstein said. “‘So Kelly[anne]—even though I hired Kellyanne’s husband—Kellyanne is just too much of a wildcard.’ And then he tells Bannon, ‘You know I really want to keep you, but Kellyanne hates you,’” Epstein continued. Wolff said that he had recordings of roughly “100 hours of Epstein talking about the inner workings of the Trump White House and about his long standing, deep relationship with Donald Trump.” Epstein also shared photos from the “late 90s” of Trump surrounded by “topless young women” at Epstein’s home in Palm Beach, Florida, where the disgraced financier victimized dozens of underage girls alongside his friend Ghislaine Maxwell. “And in some of the pictures, they’re sitting in his lap,” Wolff said. “I mean, and, and then there’s one I especially remember where there’s a stain, a telltale stain and on the front of Trump’s pants, and the girls are pointing at him and laughing.” Wolff claimed the FBI discovered the photos in Epstein’s safe when the agency raided his home in 2019, but never released the images to the public. Wolff described the photographs when discussing how he used Epstein as a main source for his book Fire and Fury, which focused on the Trump White House. Wolff said that Epstein was afraid of Trump, believing that he was “capable of doing anything.” The Trump campaign dismissed Wolff’s claims in a statement to The Daily Beast. “Michael Wolff is a disgraced writer who routinely fabricates lies in order to sell fiction books because he clearly has no morals or ethics,” a spokesperson said in a statement. “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.” Last week, a former model came forward with allegations that Trump had once groped her at a party, as part of a “twisted game” he was playing with Epstein. Trump recently praised Epstein, calling the sex offender, who died in prison before ever standing trial for sex trafficking charges, a “good salesman.” “He had some nice assets that he’d throw around, like islands,” Trump said in September, clarifying that he’d never been to Epstein’s infamous hub of sex trafficking. Trump waffled for years on the prospect of releasing files on Epstein’s known associates, and claimed that they likely contained “phony” stuff.

To: longz who wrote (1497721)	11/2/2024 11:01:50 PM
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Jeffrey Epstein Talked Out of School About the Trump Snake Pit, and It’s on Tape It must be said that Michael Wolff is a selfish schmuck for keeping this information from the public for as long as he did. By Charles P. PiercePublished: Nov 01, 2024 4:49 PM EDT esquire.com Davidoff Studios Photography//Getty Images (Permanent Musical Accompaniment to the Last Post of the Week from the Blog’s Favourite Living Canadian) Michael Wolff can kiss America’s arse in Macy’s window for sitting on these damning audiotapes of dead monster Jeffrey Epstein shooting the breeze about living monster Donald J. Trump regarding what a snake pit the former administration* was for seven years, or until four days before the presidential election. Just thought I’d put that out there. But, having said that, if Epstein had the straight dope...wowser. From the Daily Beast: Wolff released the tape on his podcast, Fire and Fury. He says it was made in a restaurant in 2017, most probably in the SoHo branch of Ladurée, a patisserie in Manhattan. Epstein can be heard speaking over the din of diners. “His people fight each other,” Epstein tells Wolff on the recording, “and then he poisons the well outside.”“He will tell ten people ‘Bannon’s a scumbag’ and ‘Priebus is not doing a good job’ and ‘Kellyanne has a big mouth’—what do you think? Jamie Dimon [CEO of JPMorgan Chase] says that you’re a problem and I shouldn’t keep you. And I spoke to [financier] Carl Icahn. And Carl thinks I need a new spokesperson.” He continues: “So Kelly[anne]—even though I hired Kellyanne’s husband—Kellyanne is just too much of a wildcard. And then he tells Bannon, you know I really want to keep you but Kellyanne hates you.”It’s like a new PBS series, The Stupid Borgias. Also from the Daily Beast: Wolff has made other claims as well for which “wowser” is an inadequate descriptive. The pedophile financier had about half a dozen pictures which showed Trump by the pool with multiple young women, Wolff claimed on his podcast, Fire and Fury, Thursday. They were taken in the “late ’90s” at Epstein’s Palm Beach home, where he victimized dozens of underage girls along with his procurer, Ghislaine Maxwell, Wolff said.Wolff said of the photos, “They were with Trump at Epstein’s Palm Beach house sitting around the pool with these young girls, and the young girls are topless. “And in some of the pictures, they’re sitting in his lap. I mean, and, and then there’s one I especially remember where there’s a stain, a telltale stain on the front of Trump’s pants, and the girls are pointing at him and laughing.” Trump separated from his second wife, Marla Maples, in 1997 and began dating his third wife, Melania, in 1998.I think I speak for the entire shebeen when I say, “Ewwwww. Ick.” Wolff’s track record is enough to warrant a substantial pile of salt, and even if you accept his explanation that he was running Epstein as a source for his previous Trump books, he is still a selfish schmuck for keeping this information from the public for as long as he did. But still...wowser.

To: longz who wrote (1497721)	11/2/2024 11:03:02 PM
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Donald Trump-Jeffrey Epstein Allegations by Michael Wolff: Five Takeaways Published Nov 01, 2024 at 8:44 AM EDTUpdated Nov 01, 2024 at 12:25 PM EDT 01:21 Donald Trump-Jeffrey Epstein Allegations By Michael Wolff: Five Takeaways By Ewan Palmer News Reporter FOLLOW newsweek.com Author and journalist Michael Wolff has made a new series of claims surrounding the relationship between former President Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, including what he described as their competitive playboy lifestyles, allegations about a real estate deal in Florida, and a claim that embarrassing photographs of Trump were found in Epstein's safe. Wolff, who has written a number of books about Trump, discussed the friendship between the Republican candidate and the late convicted sex offender on his Fire and Fury podcast. The episode was released on Thursday, just five days before the election. Below, Newsweek has compiled five key moments from Wolff's podcast. Newsweek has not independently verified these claims and has contacted Trump's team for comment via email on Friday outside of business hours. This article will be updated if a response is received. Wolff did not speculate that Trump was involved in the sex trafficking, and other crimes, committed by the billionaire financier for years, but he did say that the former president would have been aware of "girls" being at Epstein's home. Wolff said that Epstein was his "secret source" when he wrote his trilogy of books about Trump's time in the Oval Office. Wolff's books on Trump have been questioned over their accuracy previously and were dismissed by White House press secretary under Trump from 2017 to 2019, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who said at the time that Fire and Fury contained "mistake after mistake after mistake." She questioned Wolff's integrity, saying, "I think you have to look at this author's track record," before referring to the book as "tabloid gossip" and "full of lies." Wolff has said his reporting is backed up by " dozens of hours" of audio recordings of senior staff. Wolff said these new claims stem from nearly 100 hours of interviews he conducted with Epstein before the latter died by suicide in August 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. Epstein's death in 2019 left numerous unanswered questions regarding his associations with powerful figures, including Trump. Though his death was ruled a suicide, a portion of the public has remained skeptical about what actually happened and even Epstein's lawyers have challenged that ruling. Jeffrey Epstein (left) and real estate developer Donald Trump as they pose together at the Mar-a-Lago estate, Palm Beach, Florida, 1997. Author Michael Wolf discussed their relationship on his podcast. Davidoff Studios/Getty ImagesEpstein Said Trump Had 'No Scruples'Wolff makes frequent references to how and why Trump and Epstein became close friends in the 1980s. "I think they saw themselves as embodying this moment, which was money, women, and status," Wolff said. "We now see Epstein as the sexual monster. But certainly, at least in Epstein's telling, he and Trump were, in this regard, brothers in arms." Wolff added that Epstein believed that he could hang around with the "vulgarian" Trump to make his actions appear more reasonable in comparison. "I certainly never got an indication that Epstein was questioning himself. But in fact, he seemed to regard Trump's behavior as somehow proving that his own was far more reasonable... he said that Trump has no scruples," Wolff said.