Epstein and me

Dangerous Reader,

Michael Wolff, the journalist who says he was “Trump’s best friend” and also that Trump is “a moron,” has written many best-sellers. He has won the National Magazine award twice, is a good journalist and a stupendous hustler, and, as we all know now, conducted hours and hours of taped interviews with Epstein. On many of those tapes Epstein talks about Trump.

Indeed, Wolff recorded Epstein boasting to a friend on the phone about running into Trump shortly after the Bergdorf attack.

Wolff writes in the last chapter of his book, Too Famous: The Rich, The Powerful, The Wishful, The Notorious, The Damned, that Trump “regaled” Epstein with “the torrid” details about the attack:

And there was another Trump aspect he [Epstein] seemed to be rushing back to the United States for—if only to gossip about. The journalist E. Jean Carroll had, in the past weeks, described in a new book and in an article in New York magazine how in the mid-nineties Trump had raped her in a dressing r…