After Trump Split, Epstein Said He Could 'Take Him Down'

[dalton99a]

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/us/epstein-emails-trump.html

https://archive.ph/3XEAT

After Trump Split, Epstein Said He Could ‘Take Him Down’
Jeffrey Epstein cast himself as a Trump insider and wanted to leverage potentially damaging information about the president and his business dealings, according to emails with associates.
By David Enrich, Nicholas Confessore, Jessica Silver-Greenberg and Steve Eder
Nov. 12, 2025, 9:01 p.m. ET

President Trump’s long friendship with Jeffrey Epstein came to an apparent end in the mid-2000s. But Mr. Epstein remained intently focused on Mr. Trump for years afterward, seeking to exploit the remnants of their relationship up until his arrest on federal sex-trafficking charges in 2019.

In more than 20,000 pages of Mr. Epstein’s typo-strewn emails and other messages released by a congressional committee on Wednesday, Mr. Epstein insulted Mr. Trump and hinted that he had damaging information on him.

By turns gossipy, scathing and scheming, the messages show influential people pressing Mr. Epstein for insight into Mr. Trump, and Mr. Epstein casting himself as the ultimate Trump translator, someone who knew him intimately and was “the one able to take him down.”

The release of the messages instantly pushed the two men’s much-scrutinized relationship back into the public eye, re-energizing Democratic attacks on Mr. Trump and his Justice Department for failing to publicly disclose more information from the investigation of Mr. Epstein.

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[leftstreet]

1. No way he un-alived himself

No way

[yourout]

2. Amen... It was a hit.

[dalton99a]

3. Trump was president. And he tried to blame the Clintons

https://web.archive.org/web/20200611161230/https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/456979-trump-retweets-post-promoting-conspiracy-theory-about-jeffrey

[leftstreet]

5. I'm starting to think TRUMP had the pizza basement

Sheesh, I'd forgotten about his Clinton conspiracy

[Blue Full Moon]

12. It was Chuck E Cheese

The owner is tied to Epstein. I guess they needed an age appropriate place to take their dates.

[yellow dahlia]

4. "Epsteined" may be a verb (past tense) in the dictionary...one day.

[calimary]

11. Undoubtedly.

Especially if this is a long-running story.

[C_U_L8R]

6. Who killed Epstein?

Would anyone be surprised?

[AllyCat]

7. Orange Anus isn't embarrassed or concerned that he raped children

He’s probably only concerned that Pedo Epstein might make him look weak and somehow not in charge.

[stopdiggin]

8. Wow. And almost immediately this thread become conspiracy

about Epstein's death. So far - not a word about the release, or the content ...

[AZJonnie]

9. Simply put, Epstein knew Trump was laundering Russian oligarchs money to keep his "empire" afloat

I wrote up a long explanation for why this makes sense, but decide to shelve it. Suffice to say, I can give you a ton of details on why I strongly believe this is what he's talking about with "bringing Trump down".

Conversely, Epstein COULD NOT bring down Trump over screwing minors, because Epstein was involved, intimately, obviously. Therefore, that cannot be what he was talking about, that cannot be his angle.

Make sense?

[Buns_of_Fire]

10. Zombie Jeff is coming for you, Donnie.

You can waddle, but you can't hide.