‘Remove Trump’: Epstein emails reveals he wanted president’s name deleted from high-profile list
Jeffrey Epstein asked convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell to “remove Trump” from a list of high-profile figures in an email exchange in 2006, according to a bombshell report from Bloomberg published Thursday.
Trump has been under renewed scrutiny in recent months for his past ties with Epstein, who died in 2019 awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges, following the publication of a bawdy letter Trump had allegedly sent the disgraced financier in 2003. Trump has denied any wrongdoing, calling theories around Epstein a “hoax.”
However, according to a batch of 18,000 emails obtained by Bloomberg, Epstein had mentioned Trump multiple times in private emails in the mid-2000s, including in a request to have him removed from a list of powerful figures.
“Please review list and add or remove peeps,” wrote Maxwell in an email to Epstein dated Sept. 14, 2006, alongside a list of 51 powerful figures that included lawmakers and business executives.
“Remove Trump,” Epstein responded, according to Bloomberg, which exclusively obtained the emails and thoroughly vetted and reviewed them with four independent experts. [Continue reading…]