Donald Trump has threatened to sue Jeffrey Epstein‘s estate, and his friend-turned-nemesis Michael Wolff, for allegedly ‘conspiring’ to destroy his political career.
Emails between Wolff, who appeared to be Epstein’s unofficial adviser before the 2016 US election, show the two men gunning for Trump’s downfall.
In one message, Wolff told the disgraced financier he could be the ‘bullet’ to end Trump’s bid for the White House, and in another, he advised Epstein to ‘let (Trump) hang himself’ in TV interviews about their relationship.
Speaking with reporters on board Air Force One as he flew to Florida Saturday night, Trump said he was going to respond by going scorched earth with a lawsuit.
‘Wolff, who’s a third-rate writer, was conspiring with Jeffrey Epstein to hurt me politically or otherwise and that came through loud and clear,’ he said.
‘So we’ll probably sue Wolff on that… Maybe the Epstein estate, I guess. I don’t know. But we’ll certainly sue Wolff.’
Trump, 79, also claimed that the latest Epstein file dump absolves him of his links to the convicted pedophile – though he did not give a rationale for this.
‘I didn’t see it myself but I was told by some very important people that not only does it absolve me, it’s the opposite of what people were hoping, you know, the radical left,’ he said.
Donald Trump has threatened to sue Jeffrey Epstein’s estate, and his friend-turned-nemesis Michael Wolff, for allegedly trying to destroy his political career
Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump at the Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, in 1997
Trump is mentioned more than 3,000 times in the latest Epstein file release.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) said inclusion does not suggest any wrongdoing, adding that some documents contained false claims against the president.
Trump has denied any wrongdoing and has not been accused of any crimes linked to Epstein.
Emails released by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee in November show that Epstein referred to Trump in correspondence with Ghislaine Maxwell and Wolff over a period of at least eight years.
Wolff described his contact with Epstein as a working relationship for several book projects, including Fire and Fury, his account of the first Trump administration.
He said he recorded more than 100 hours of conversation with Epstein between 2014 and 2019 as research for this. The two also corresponded by email.
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.
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
Michael Wolff emailed Epstein with the subject line ‘heads up’ on December 15, 2015 – the day of a Republican primary debate televised by CNN
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Epstein asked Wolff whether 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.
‘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 reached out to Wolff’s publishers for comment.
It comes as the latest tranche of Epstein files dropped on Friday, which included details of Bill Gates talking to the pedophile about contracting an STD, and disturbing photographs of the UK’s former Prince Andrew with a young woman.
