Just hours after the White House publicly accused congressional Democrats of selectively leaking emails related to Jeffrey Epstein on Wednesday, Republicans on the House Oversight Committee released tens of thousands of additional pages of documents. These include email exchanges between Epstein and prominent journalists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A significant portion of the new material shows correspondence between Epstein and writer-turned-biographer Michael Wolff. Wolff reached out to Epstein multiple times, discussing not only Epstein\u2019s public image but how to leverage criticism of Donald Trump for strategic benefit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In February 2016, Wolff wrote to Epstein:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\u201cNYT called me about you and Trump,\u201d
\u201cAlso, Hillary campaign digging deeply. Again, you should consider preempting.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nA month later they discussed plans ahead of the release of Filthy Rich \u2014 a true-crime book by James Patterson about Epstein, who was Patterson\u2019s neighbor in Palm Beach. Wolff suggested to Epstein:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\u201cBecoming an anti-Trump voice gives you a certain political cover which you decidedly don\u2019t have now.\u201d
And he added:
\u201cPatterson can be counted on to produce a bestseller, and while he isn’t regarded as a serious writer, he’ll surely be unloading a lot of tabloid copy \u2026 Because this will be tied to the election, the Trump-Clinton angle will amp up the attention 10-fold, in fact, possibly, a hundred fold. Possibly more than anything you’ve encountered before.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nWhen Epstein asked Wolff what he should say publicly about his relationship with Trump, Wolff\u2019s advice was pointed:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\u201cIf he says he hasn’t been on the plane or to the house, then that gives you a valuable PR and political currency,\u201d
\u201cYou 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. Of course, it is possible that, when asked, he’ll say Jeffrey is a great guy and has gotten a raw deal and is a victim of political correctness, which is to be outlawed in a Trump regime.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nIn further correspondence, Wolff requested introductions for Epstein to two figures close to Trump: business leader and inaugural-committee chair Tom Barrack and former federal prosecutor Kathy Ruemmler. He told Epstein he sought \u201can off-the-record perspective on White House procedures,\u201d while researching his book about Trump\u2019s first 100 days in office. He also asked whether former President Bill Clinton would confirm he had never been to Epstein\u2019s private U.S. Virgin Islands island, Little St. John \u2014 a place Clinton has publicly denied visiting. Epstein\u2019s longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell has also denied seeing Clinton there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The documents show that Epstein and Wolff planned to meet as recently as May 2019 \u2014 months before Epstein died in a federal jail cell while awaiting trial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read some of the emails below:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n