Jeffrey Epstein Thought Trump Was ‘Borderline Insane,’ Alan Dershowitz Was Nearly There: Email

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The late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein described President Donald Trump as “borderline insane,” and his lawyer Alan Dershowitz as only “a few feet further from the border but not by much,” in newly-released emails from 2018.

During an email exchange with former Barack Obama and Bill Clinton official Lawrence Summers, Epstein didn’t have kind words for his old friend Trump, or for his lawyer Dershowitz, who helped secure the sex offender a “sweetheart deal” in 2008 for procuring a child for prostitution.

“Trump – borderline insane,” wrote Epstein to Summers. “Dersh, a few feet further from the border but not by much.”

After Summers questioned, “Will trump crack into insanity?” Epstein responded, “I hope someone close to him gets indicted, but not sure, otherwise the pressure of the unknown will force him to do crazy things.”

Summers also sought Epstein’s advice for courting women just months before the sex offender was arrested for trafficking.

Asked on Piers Morgan Uncensored for his response to Epstein’s email calling him “borderline insane,” Wednesday, Dershowitz said, “Well, at that point, Epstein and I were enemies. Obviously, he thought I had made him a terrible deal, that ‘sweetheart deal.’ He refused to pay me my legal fee. I threatened to sue him. I was not in a good relationship with him.”

He continued, “I’ve never seen that email, but I can easily imagine him thinking that I’m a little bit kooky. But I’ll let the public decide my mental status.”

In October, Dershowitz declared that Canada was now “our enemy” and called for sanctions against the Canadian government.

A few months prior, Dershowitz waged war against a Martha’s Vineyard pierogi vendor, which ended with him being shouted out of a farmer’s market – and claimed there was “no credible evidence” that Epstein’s victims were trafficked to powerful men.

In 2024, Dershowitz threatened to sue a debate opponent for calling him “an old pervert,” while in 2020, he filed a $300 million lawsuit against CNN for portraying him as an “intellectual who had lost his mind.”

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