Trump Lawyer Says He Asked Epstein in Final Days If He Had Dirt on His Client

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President Donald Trump’s former lawyer David Schoen, who also represented convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein in the weeks before his death in 2019, made the eyebrow-raising revelation in June that he asked his imprisoned client if he had dirt on Trump.

The comments resurfaced Monday as a further twist to the already chaotic saga surrounding the Trump administration’s handling of Epstein’s files after a Justice Department memo leaked to Axios last week concluded that the disgraced financier killed himself and did not maintain a “client list” to blackmail elites.

Schoen’s statement came on June 6, long before the memo release, just hours after Elon Musk claimed on X that Trump was “in the Epstein files,” and that this, Musk suggested, was “the real reason they have not been made public.” Musk later deleted the claim.

Schoen, who represented Epstein just days before his death in 2019 and would later serve as Trump’s impeachment lawyer, took to the president’s defense on X the same day.

“I was hired to lead Jeffrey Epstein’s defense as his criminal lawyer 9 days before he died,” Schoen wrote. “He sought my advice for months before that. I can say authoritatively, unequivocally, and definitely that he had no information to hurt President Trump. I specifically asked that!”

The statement, however, has become fodder for Trump’s feuding supporter base which has been consumed with in-fighting after the publishing of the Justice Department memo. The memo enraged some MAGA loyalists and prompted accusations of betrayal and a backlash against Attorney General Pam Bondi from figures like Tucker Carlson, Laura Loomer and Steve Bannon.

Trump has attempted to rally behind Bondi, dismissing the obsession with the “creep” Epstein in a Cabinet meeting, and later pushing the idea that the Epstein files were a “false flag” authored by the Obama-Clinton-Biden axis of “criminals.”