Released Epstein emails: What we have learned so far: “I have met some very bad people. None as bad as Trump”

The public is finally getting a deeper look into the details of Jeffrey Esptein’s dealings with the people around him and what he thought of them after the House Oversight Committee release a massive trove of the late sex offender’s personal communications. In them he talks about disgraced Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton and Donald Trump.

When speaking about the latter, while he didn’t implicate his long-time friend in any of his criminal activities, he did say that Trump “knew about the girls,” but added that “[Trump] asked ghislaine to stop.” Epstein’s emails also show that he didn’t hold Trump’s character in very high regard nor his business acumen.

Esptein talked about Trump’s “dirty” business

Epstein didn’t hold back punches when talking about Trump in his communications telling Kathy Ruemmler, currently a top lawyer at Goldman Sachs, in 2018 that he knew “how dirty Donald is.” In a later email, he told her that “Donald doesn’t really own very much, he rents out his name. he puts it on building projects etc. for a royalty or piece of the upside.”

He then went on to explain that money launderers often look for someone wealthy whose name they can rent “to purchase trophy properties.” That way “there is little suspicion” and “the person gets positive press.”

He reiterated Trump’s business model in another email, this time with writer Michael Wolff. “His biz model is putting his name on a real estate development and gets a fee for using his name. The hotel biz is just that,” Epstein wrote.

“Trump put his name on it, and get a 2% fee and maybe a piece of the profit if any on sale,” he explained. “He touts the project as ‘his’… just as in his current financial statements on file as president he lists his ‘income’ as the GROSS receipts of the clubs, with no expenses, not his personal revenue ie the doral golf club loses money every year.”

“It pays out more than it takes in, but he lists the revenue as his income. AMAZING,” Epstein added.

“Not one decent cell in his body”

But perhaps one of the bluntest statements from the late sex offender was when he told Larry Summers, a former Secretary of the Treasury, in 2017 that Trump is “dangerous.”

“recall ive told you ,, -- i have met some very bad people ,, none as bad as trump. Not one decent cell in his body.. so yes- dangerous.”

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