‘Epstein Was Preoccupied With Trump’: Ace Epstein Reporter Marvels That Trump’s Name Comes Up ‘Over 2,000 Times’ in Docs

Investigative journalist Julie K. Brown joined CNN’s Pamela Brown on Thursday to discuss the latest revelations about the relationship between President Donald Trump and sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein. Both House Republicans and Democrats published a trove of Epstein’s emails on Wednesday, many of which referenced Trump in a very unflattering way.

Brown introduced her guest as someone whose past work “exposed many of the horrific details of Epstein’s alleged sex trafficking ring. And she’s also the author of ‘Perversion of Justice, the Jeffrey Epstein Story.’”

“What from these newly released documents stood out to you the most and why?” Brown asked.

“Well, the one thing that’s—you know, we’ve now had time to go through all of them and we’re still going through them. There are over 20,000 of them. One of the things that we noticed is if you check to see how many times Trump’s name is contained in these documents, it’s over 2,000 times that Trump’s name is mentioned,” answered Julie Brown, adding:

Now, of course, this doesn’t mean—this just doesn’t implicate him in any crimes or anything like that, but it does show how much room Trump held in Epstein’s brain, so to speak, or how much Epstein was preoccupied with Trump. He mentions him virtually all the time, or people are emailing Epstein about Trump trying to find out information as if Epstein is sort of the all-wise Trump expert.

So it’s interesting to see how Epstein—now remember, these emails started around 2011, they go through 2019. So this is a period of time when his relationship with Trump is waning. And by the way, there aren’t any emails in here between Epstein and Trump. And we don’t know why that is, whether they weren’t turned over, whether any even exist.

“Yeah, I think that’s a fair point. We know, though, that President Trump is not big on emailing. So perhaps that could have something to do with it. But there’s still a lot to learn. And what questions do you still have? I mean, as Tom pointed out, there are some context, but there’s a lot of context we really don’t have still,” followed up the CNN anchor.

“Yeah, and there’s a huge problem right now, by the way, on the internet with people putting some of these emails up there and saying, ‘Look what this means.’ And it doesn’t mean what they say it means,” Julie Brown replied, adding:

So it’s a very dangerous thing. That’s why context is so important. I think that this is why we need a Department of Justice and an FBI. I mean, quite frankly, this case should have never been closed. And there are still victims out there who have stories to tell about some of their abusers. So I think that it just puts a finer point on the fact that we need more answers, because these emails raise more questions.

“And as you know, the White House has said that President Trump at the time kicked Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago, that he thought he was a creep and so forth. And then years later we’re seeing these emails that he’s exchanging with various people, right? I mean, including some high-profile Democrats as well, where we see Epstein frequently questioning Trump’s mental health. Why do you think he was so focused on that?” asked Pamela Brown.

“I think that Epstein viewed himself as superior in a lot of ways, and especially to the idea that here is this man who was—they were in competition in some respects, financially, with the idea of who had more women. I think they were sort of in that category, almost like brothers who were sort of in some kind of a feud. And I think that when he got elected president, he also may have had a little bit of fear about what Trump would be able to expose about him and vice versa. They both probably had skeletons in their closets that they didn’t want the other to reveal,” answered the reporter.

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