“In 2019, Epstein wrote to journalist Michael Wolff that Trump “asked me to resign,” apparently from Trump’s club, Mar-a-Lago. “[O]f course he knew about the girls as he asked ghislaine to stop,” Epstein added.
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Wolff told Epstein that Trump was going to be asked about their relationship, and Epstein asked Wolff to “craft an answer” for Trump. Wolff suggested that letting Trump deny their relationship in public would give Epstein leverage.
“If he says he hasn’t been on the plane or to the house, then that gives you a valuable PR and political currency,” Wolff wrote. “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.” CNN didn’t end up asking Trump the question, according to The New York Times.
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the emails do suggest that Trump knew a lot more about Epstein than he let on—and that he has something to hide about their relationship.
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In September 2025, the House Oversight Committee released a sexually suggestive letter from Trump to Epstein talking about their “wonderful secret.”
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during the 2024 campaign, Trump offhandedly agreed to open up the government’s files on Epstein, a campaign promise he would come to regret. In February 2025, the department announced that it was releasing “The Epstein Files: Phase 1,” only to publish a set of already public documents. Shortly after, the Department of Justice informed Trump that his name appeared several times in Epstein’s case file, according to The Wall Street Journal.”
https://reason.com/2025/11/12/jeffrey-epstein-trump-spent-hours-at-my-house-with-victim