Michael Wolff Speaks Out After Release of His Emails With Epstein: We’re ‘Getting Close to a Smoking Gun’ on Trump
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Author Michael Wolff addressed the emails between himself and Jeffrey Epstein released by the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday, in a video released on Instagram.
In a batch of emails from 2015 released by the Democrats on the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday morning, Wolff advised Epstein on how to handle media interest in the relationship between himself and then-presidential candidate Donald Trump. Their exchange read as follows:
To: Jeffrey Epstein
From: Michael Wolff
Date: December 15, 2015
“I hear CNN planning to ask Trump tonight about his relationship with you–either on air or in scrum afterwards.”
To: Michael Wolff
From: Jeffrey Epstein
Date: December 15, 2015
“if we were able to craft an answer for him, what do you think it should be?”
To: Jeffrey Epstein
From: Michael Wolff
Date: December 16, 2015
“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.”
In another email found among the 20,000 pages of documents subsequently released by the Republican members of the Oversight Committee, Wolff suggested that Epstein could “finish” Trump on the eve of the 2016 presidential election.
“There’s an opportunity to come forward this week and talk about Trump in such a way that could garner you great sympathy and help finish him. Interested?” wrote Wolff in late October 2016.
In his video response, Wolff did not broach the topics of his apparent ethical misconduct or the nature of his relationship with Epstein, and instead suggested that “perhaps we’re getting close to the smoking gun” regarding Trump’s relationship with Epstein.
He said:
This morning, the House Oversight Committee released emails directly linking Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein. And in fact, some of those emails are between Epstein and me with Epstein discussing his relationship with Donald Trump. I have been trying to talk about this story for a very long time now. And this is, well, perhaps we’re getting close to the smoking gun.
These two men, Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump had the closest of relationships for more than a decade. They shared everything. They shared their airplanes. They shared women between them. They shared constantly business and financial advice. You know, it’s curious that Epstein’s relationship with so many people in public life has damaged them considerably, but the one person who he was closest to has not been held accountable. That’s Donald Trump.
I have, well, I released-, I released tapes of Epstein talking about this relationship before the election to really little effect. But I think the fact that this is now four square on the agenda, Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein is exactly where this should be. That is the question. What was Donald Trump’s relationship to Jeffrey Epstein? What’s the nature of that relationship? What did they do together? And anything I think that can bring us closer to an answer to that question is central to our time. Now, I think, as most of you know, I have this-, commenced this lawsuit against Melania Trump. And I think will allow me to ask the questions of her, and also of her husband, and of the many people that surrounded their relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. And at this point, I think we can all focus on the main issue, which is to get to the bottom of this relationship.
Wolff filed a lawsuit against First Lady Melania Trump last month after her legal team threatened him with a billion-dollar lawsuit over claims he’s made about her relationship to Epstein.
