David Enrich
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And it appears that he has given not just some advice to Epstein, but really kind of sitting alongside him, coaching him on how he can use information that he has on a major party presidential candidate as leverage.
To say this is a violation of traditional journalistic ethics and standards would be an understatement.
Well, I'm not sure that is right.
Look, the relationship between Epstein and Trump, we know a lot about it now in 2025.
But back a decade ago, we knew next to nothing about it.
And what we now know is that Trump in the 80s and 90s and into the early 2000s was pretty good friends with Epstein.
And they were moving in the same social circles.
They were both pursuing at points some of the same young women.
So, you know, at this point in Trump's career in 2015, he is frustrated.
obviously very well known, but a lot of the things that have come to define him and his relationships with women, such as the E. Jean Carroll allegations or the Access Hollywood tape, all of that stuff was in the future at this point.
And so I think from Epstein's perspective, the fact that he has a lot of experience having been around Trump and seeing him interacting with women, I think that that is the kind of thing that Epstein sitting there in 2015 can see as potentially very useful information that he could use to
Okay, tell us about the final email that House Democrats released on Wednesday morning.
Yeah, so this one is maybe the most cryptic of the bunch.
This is another email from Epstein to Michael Wolff.
It's written in early 2019, so several months before Epstein was arrested for the final time.
And what we see in the email is there's apparently a victim's name, which is redacted.
Then it says Mar-a-Lago.
Then there's something else that's redacted.
And then it says, Trump said he asked me to resign.