An audio tape in which a New York author and journalist appears to detail how he had a close social relationship with the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, which Donald Trump has long denied. was published.
The tape was created by Michael Wolff, author of three books on President Trump’s first term and his bid for a second term in 2020, and former NME journalist and Condé Nast editor-in-chief James Truman in a podcast series called It was released as part of “Fire and Fury,” and includes thoughts from Mr. Epstein. The inner workings of the former US president’s inner circle.
Wolf said the recording was made in 2017 during a discussion with Epstein about writing a biography. Mr. Epstein died by suicide two years later while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. Despite his crimes, this wealthy financier remained a mainstay in the social circle of the rich and powerful in the United States and abroad, which included many prominent figures.
Wolf claims that the tape excerpts are only a fraction of “100 hours in which Mr. Epstein spoke about President Trump’s inner workings and his deep relationship with Donald Trump over the years.”
In a 2002 interview with New York magazine, President Trump praised Epstein as a “wonderful man” and hinted that he was interested in women on the “younger side.” But he claimed the two had a falling out 15 years before Epstein was convicted of prostitution charges in Florida in 2008.
After Epstein was arrested on federal sex trafficking charges in 2019, the president said, “Let me be clear: I’ve never been a fan of his.”
The Fire and Fury tapes revealed Epstein reminiscing about how then-President Trump played against one another. “His people will fight among themselves,” he says, “and then he will poison the wells outside.”
The author counts Steve Bannon, Reince Priebus, and Kellyanne Conway as among his followers, and President Trump has pitted them against each other like courtiers in a competition court.
“He’ll tell 10 people, ‘Bannon sucks,’ ‘Priebus isn’t doing a good job,’ ‘Kellyanne has a big mouth, what do you think?’
“(JPMorgan Chase CEO) Jamie Dimon said you’re a problem and I shouldn’t keep you. And I talked to[financier]Carl Icahn. And Karl thinks I need a new publicist.”
Mr. Epstein went on to explain Mr. Trump’s approach to management. And he said to Bannon, “You know I really want to keep you, but Kellyanne hates you.”
In response to the podcast, Trump campaign national spokesperson Caroline Leavitt said, “Wolf is a disgraced author who clearly lacks morals and ethics and routinely fabricates lies to sell his fiction books.” He accused the author of “making an outlandish statement.” “false defamation” and “blatant election interference on behalf of Kamala Harris.”
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In his podcast, Wolfs claims he became Epstein’s “outlet to express his disbelief that someone who knows so much about his crimes could actually be elected president.” Epstein was completely obsessed with Trump and frankly I think he was afraid of him. ”
In his broadest strokes, Wolff’s intention is to portray two wealthy men in the 1980s whose common interests are money, women, and status. He describes how they interacted in New York.
The Guardian recently reported that in 1993, Epstein brought Stacey Williams, a Sports Illustrated model and his girlfriend of two months, to President Trump’s Fifth Avenue penthouse, where he played a “perverse game” with her. that she allowed, and possibly encouraged, the former U.S. president to molest her in acts she described as ”.
Wolf said on the podcast: “These two men are both driven by a desire to do whatever they want to women: domination, submission, entertainment, and one of them is in the darkest prison in the land. The other one will be sent to the White House.”
