Explosive new audio reveals that Donald Trump detailed how he really felt about his White House staff to Jeffrey Epstein, and Epstein touted old photos of Trump with half-naked women taken at the site of the pedophileā€™s rampant sexual abuse of young girls.

On author Michael Wolffā€™s Thursday episode of his podcast Fire and Fury, Wolff shared a recording of a conversation with Epstein from 2017, in which the convicted sex offender and alleged human trafficker recounted Trumpā€™s true feelings about members of his administration, The Daily Beast reported.

ā€œHis people fight each other and then have outsidersā€”he sort of poisons the well outside,ā€ Epstein told Wolff. Epstein went on to paraphrase Trumpā€™s candid statements about his former strategist Steve Bannon, former chief of staff Reince Priebus, and counselor Kellyanne Conway.

ā€œHe will tell 10 people, ā€˜Bannonā€™s a scumbagā€™ and ā€˜Priebus is not doing a good jobā€™ and ā€˜Kelly has a big mouthā€™ā€”what do you think? ā€˜Jamie Dimon says that youā€™re a problem and I shouldnā€™t keep you. And I spoke to Carl Icahn. And Carl thinks I need a new spokesperson,ā€™ā€ Epstein said.

ā€œā€˜So Kelly[anne]ā€”even though I hired Kellyanneā€™s husbandā€”Kellyanne is just too much of a wildcard.ā€™ And then he tells Bannon, ā€˜You know I really want to keep you, but Kellyanne hates you,ā€™ā€ Epstein continued.

Wolff said that he had recordings of roughly ā€œ100 hours of Epstein talking about the inner workings of the Trump White House and about his long standing, deep relationship with Donald Trump

  • @captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    The thing I find hard to believe is that this guy has these recordings and waited until now. Iā€™m not saying itā€™s not true, but this is messy bitch shit and really convenient at a dramatic moment.

    • @jonne@infosec.pub
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      Itā€™s another one of those journalists that decided to wait until his book was done. Bob Woodward did a ton of this as well, sitting on things that we shouldā€™ve been told in real time.

    • @Valmond@lemmy.world
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      Itā€™s a classic.

      You git some dirt? If you throw it out whenever, people might be caught up in other dramas or the person isnā€™t interesting enough (like Trump 2 years ago, who would have cared?), so you have to wait and publish for maximum exposure and damage.

      In france there is a whole slew of files concerning the extreme right, so when they get elected in say some small election or gets a pisition in the party, thereā€™s always some rape allegations or heil-hitler photos coming forwardā€¦

    • @Arn_Thor@feddit.uk
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      Wolff has been like this for decades. Heā€™s as craven as the rest of them. But heā€™s also very often right.

    • @Tinidril@midwest.social
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      7ā€¢22 days ago

      Reporting on anything related to Epstein is almost non-existent because of all the powerful people that are vulnerable.