Jeffrey Epstein Tried To Offer Prosecutors Dirt On Donald Trump Before His August 2019 Death

Financier Jeffrey Epstein, held at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City while awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges, tried to offer prosecutors information about Donald Trump in a so-called “proffer” arrangement discussed in the weeks before Epstein’s death in August 2019.

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The report described Epstein scribbling on a legal pad that “Trump is a total con artist – smoke & mirrors” and “Never had money,” while also reflecting that he was “particularly preoccupied” with what he might have on Mr Trump.

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The Independent reported that previously unreleased handwritten notes obtained by The New York Times included Epstein suggesting former Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg “knows all” and suggesting the president’s “college transcripts” should be publicly released.

The same notes account said Epstein’s writings did not appear to raise any new allegations against the president, and that Trump has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing in connection with Epstein.

In the days leading up to his suicide, the notes described Epstein telling his lawyers “I can’t do this,” according to The Times, as the reporting framed his final weeks as a “desperate, unraveling decline.”

In a House Judiciary Committee hearing, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi defended how the Department of Justice handled the Epstein cases and faced hostile questions about redactions, with the BBC describing the session as sometimes degenerating into a heated dispute.

Bondi told lawmakers, “I will not lower myself to the level of this woman,” after Democratic Representative Pramila Jayapal asked her to apologize to victims for how the Justice Department handled the redactions.

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Epstein survivor Marina Lacerda, speaking to the BBC, said Bondi was not willing to help the survivors, adding, “She completely ignored us, just as she did today,”.

The BBC also reported that Thomas Massie pressed Bondi on accountability for redactions and said the matter was “more serious than Watergate,” while Bondi responded, “This is political theater,”.

FBI Director Kash Patel intervened during the hearing, and the BBC reported Patel said there was “no evidence” Epstein had supplied women to Wexner.

The Department of Justice under President Donald Trump said it would publish more than three million pages of documents along with more than 2,000 videos and 180,000 images under a law designed to reveal most of the material collected during two decades of investigation into Jeffrey Epstein.

“Topline Jeffrey Epstein’s attorneys were in discussions with prosecutors before his death about potentially trying to get him a more lenient sentence if he gave up information that could help them in other cases, The New York Times reported Tuesday—with notes suggesting Epstein wanted to pass along information about President Donald Trump”

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The Morning Call reported that the fallout from the newly released government files prompted the resignation of Slovakia’s prime minister on Saturday accepted the resignation of Miroslav Lajcak, who had met Epstein in the years following his release from prison, and that Robert Fico said he accepted the resignation.

The same AP report said British Prime Minister Keir Starmer suggested on Saturday that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor should tell U.S. investigators everything he knows about Epstein’s activities, while the former prince ignored a request from members of the U.S. House Oversight Committee for a transcribed interview.

In the Telegraph account of the earlier proffer discussions, Abigail Jackson, a White House spokesman, said, “Just as President Trump has said, he’s been totally exonerated on anything relating to Epstein,” while JD Vance described himself as a “conspiracy theorist” when it came to Epstein’s death.

The Telegraph also reported that Vance said the administration scrambled and met in the White House Situation Room to plan how to deal with any fallout from the release of the Epstein files and said he wanted “full transparency.”