Jeffrey Epstein And Donald Trump 'Fell Out With Enormous Acrimony,' Author Reveals Amid Email Scandal

Author Michael Wolff claims Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump shared a close bond fueled by a mutual interest in hot models.

Emails released by the House Oversight Committee suggest the late sex offender and his right-hand woman, Ghislaine Maxwell, coordinated to downplay Trump's ties in 2015, and show Wolff advising Epstein on handling media questions.

The release has sparked political debate, with Democrats demanding transparency and Donald Trump warning Republicans not to be drawn into what he calls a Jeffrey Epstein "hoax."

Wolff has alleged that Epstein and Trump shared a close relationship, fueled largely by their mutual fascination with glamorous women.

The author discussed this connection on his podcast, "Inside Trump's Head," with Daily Beast CCO Joanna Coles following the release of over 23,000 emails by the House Oversight Committee, which shed new light on the president's ties to Epstein.

According to Wolff, Epstein and Trump shared a "deep" bond that eventually ended in a bitter fallout.

"They knew everything about each other. And then they fell out with enormous acrimony," Wolff claimed, per TMZ.

The author further suggested that part of their connection was rooted in a shared "obsession" with models, noting that both men had owned modeling agencies at different times. Wolff also claimed to have seen photos showing young women posing topless while sitting on Trump's lap.

Some of the emails indicate that Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell coordinated in 2015 to minimize public knowledge of Trump's association with Epstein during his first presidential campaign.

One email from Epstein in 2011, addressed to Maxwell, references Trump spending hours at the late sex offender's residence with one of Epstein's alleged victims. However, Trump was not a recipient of any of these emails.

In another exchange released by House Democrats, dated December 15, 2015, Wolff, who served as a PR advisor for Epstein, and is also the author of the 2018 book "Fire and Fury," which chronicles Trump's early presidency wrote to the sex offender: "I hear CNN planning to ask Trump tonight about his relationship with you—either on air or in scrum afterwards."

Epstein responded, asking if they should "craft an answer for him." Wolff then suggested letting Trump "hang himself," noting that how he responds could either create a "valuable PR and political currency" for Epstein or, if handled carefully, generate a sense of obligation toward him.

"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," he said, per the BBC.

Wolff also notes that Trump might defend Epstein as being unfairly treated or as a "victim of political correctness, which is to be outlawed in a Trump regime."

Epstein was arrested in July 2019 on federal sex trafficking charges and later died by suicide while in custody at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City.

Despite these claims, Trump has consistently denied having a close friendship with Epstein.

In the past, he described cutting ties with him, calling Epstein a "creep" who mistreated female employees at Mar-a-Lago, his Florida club.

However, among the released documents is a January 2019 email sent by Epstein to Wolff, during Trump's first term.

In it, Epstein wrote: "Trump said he asked me to resign," apparently referring to his membership at Mar-a-Lago, adding that he was "never a member ever."

In response to the email release, House Republicans quickly issued a tranche of documents, claiming Democrats were attempting to "cherry-pick" information to "create a fake narrative to slander President Trump."

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt then stated that the emails were "selectively leaked" by House Democrats to "liberal media to create a fake narrative to smear President Trump."

She also noted that the "victim" who is said to have "spent hours" with Trump was Epstein's most prominent accuser, Virginia Giuffre, who has, in the past, seemingly cleared the president of any wrongdoing.

Leavitt also emphasized that Trump had "kicked Jeffrey Epstein out of his club decades ago for being a creep to his female employees, including Giuffre."

The email release comes amid growing pressure in Congress for transparency on the Epstein files.

Rep. Robert Garcia of California, the top Democrat on the Oversight Committee, urged the Justice Department to make the files public "immediately," stating that the panel "will continue pushing for answers and will not stop until we get justice for the victims."

According to CBS, he noted, "The more Donald Trump tries to cover up the Epstein files, the more we uncover," adding that the latest correspondence raises serious questions about what else the White House might be hiding and the nature of Epstein's relationship with the president.

Trump, meanwhile, took to social media to denounce the email release, claiming that "Democrats are trying to bring up the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax again because they'll do anything at all to deflect on how badly they've done on the Shutdown, and so many other subjects."

He stated, "Only a very bad, or stupid, Republican would fall into that trap."