Epstein thought he'd be offered deal to 'flip' on Trump
Jeffrey Epstein’s time behind bars in his final days was marked by misery, as he went from a life of luxury to staining his jail uniform while awaiting trial on trafficking charges, Knewz.com can report. Journalist and author Michael Wolff offered his Substack readers a look into the predator’s last weeks while everything crumbled around him.
Epstein was a mess behind bars
Jeffrey Epstein was struggling to cope inside New York’s Metropolitan Correctional Center in the final weeks of his life, according to author Michael Wolff. By: Metropolitan Correctional Center/CBS© Knewz (CA)
Epstein — who died in his New York jail cell in August 2019, a month after he was arrested — couldn’t handle his new life in lockup inside New York’s Metropolitan Correctional Center, according to Wolff, whom The Wall Street Journal recently described as an “unofficial consigliere” to the disgraced financier. “Epstein had been brought up through the underground tunnel that connected the MCC to the Federal Courthouse. Rather than touch the soiled bedding, Epstein, the germaphobe, had, without sleep, stood and paced for the past two days in his cell,” Wolff wrote on Substack, citing a 2021 piece he wrote and later published in Too Famous: The Rich, the Powerful, the Wishful, the D ****, the Notorious —Twenty Years of Columns, Essays and Reporting*. “A bit after noon, a marshal in a TV sort of garb — T-shirt, nylon jacket announcing U.S. MARSHAL, baseball cap — came in through a side door and stood legs apart, hands crossed, in front of a side door. Ten or 15 minutes later, Epstein seemed to be pushed out, a child at a first recital, and, for a second, hesitated. Then he slowly shuffled forward, head down. His blue prison shift was wrinkled and soiled, a brown streak down the left side.” Wolff wrote how the predator was “unshaven, his gray hair wild.” Said Wolff, “It seemed surprising he had the strength to pull out his own chair at the defense table. The faces of people within days or weeks of death can often seem aghast and uncomprehending, their eyes already seeing another world. Epstein looked as bad.”
‘Flip’ on Trump?
President Donald Trump was “obsessed with what [Jeffrey] Epstein knew about [Bill] Clinton,” according to author Michael Wolff. By: MEGA© Knewz (CA)
Epstein was allegedly waiting on either the White House or the Justice Department’s Southern District of New York office to reach out to him to play ball and “flip” to save himself from decades in prison. If the White House reached out, Wolff wrote, Epstein expected them to want him to spill details on former President Bill Clinton, who knew and had traveled with the financier for philanthropic initiatives for his Clinton Foundation many years earlier. (Clinton has long denied any wrongdoing.) “The White House, through the Justice Department, was looking to press a longtime Republican obsession, and [President Donald] Trump ace-in-the-hole, and get Epstein to flip and reveal the s** secrets of Bill Clinton,” Wolff explained. “Trump, if he was obsessed with Clinton, which he was, was also obsessed with what Epstein knew about Clinton and, likely, especially in the days after the E. Jean Carroll [lawsuit against Trump], badgering whoever could be badgered to squeeze him.” If the Southern District of New York’s attorneys met with Epstein, he believed they would be looking for him to turn his back on his old pal, Trump, amid questions about his business affairs. “SDNY had slipped Epstein’s arrest past Trump’s attorney general and watchdog Bill Barr — who, indeed, oddly recused himself after the arrest and then hurriedly (at Trump’s urgings, [Steve] Bannon was sure) unrecused himself,” Wolff claimed. Neither of those things came together for Epstein before his death.
Ghislaine Maxwell defends Trump
Ghislaine Maxwell praised President Donald Trump’s behavior when he was with Jeffrey Epstein. Critics speculate she’s angling for a pardon. By: MEGA© Knewz (CA)
While Epstein never faced punishment for his crimes, his co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell, did. She is currently serving a 20-year sentence for trafficking. However, she is hoping to receive a pardon from Trump. She was moved to a minimum-security women’s prison in Texas, known as “Club Fed” due to its cushy amenities, following a private meeting with Deputy U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche over the summer. In their interviews, Maxwell claimed, “I actually never saw the president in any type of massage setting. I never witnessed the president in any inappropriate setting in any way. The president was never inappropriate with anybody. In the times that I was with him, he was a gentleman in all respects.”
Trump’s about-face
Jeffrey Epstein died in a New York jail cell in 2019 about a month after he was arrested on trafficking charges. By: MEGA© Knewz (CA)
After months of distancing himself from all things Epstein amid claims Attorney General Pam Bondi and Deputy AG Blanche had privately told him his name appears in the infamous Epstein files, Trump faced a reckoning after 20,000 pages of Epstein’s emails and other documents — in which his name appears more than 1,000 times — were released by the House Oversight Committee, which obtained them from Epstein’s estate — not the DOJ or FBI. Just a week after Trump branded efforts to release any Epstein files a “hoax,” saying Democrats were only bringing them up to “deflect how badly they’ve done on the [government] shutdown,” he did something he’s rarely done: Trump changed course. “House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files, because we have nothing to hide, and it’s time to move on from this Democrat Hoax perpetrated by Radical Left Lunatics in order to deflect from the Great Success of the Republican Party,” the president wrote on Truth Social.
Jeffrey Epstein’s time behind bars in his final days was marked by misery, as he went from a life of luxury to staining his jail uniform while awaiting trial on trafficking charges, Knewz.com can report. Journalist and author Michael Wolff offered his Substack readers a look into the predator’s last weeks while everything crumbled around him.
Epstein was a mess behind bars
Jeffrey Epstein was struggling to cope inside New York’s Metropolitan Correctional Center in the final weeks of his life, according to author Michael Wolff. By: Metropolitan Correctional Center/CBS© Knewz (CA)
Epstein — who died in his New York jail cell in August 2019, a month after he was arrested — couldn’t handle his new life in lockup inside New York’s Metropolitan Correctional Center, according to Wolff, whom The Wall Street Journal recently described as an “unofficial consigliere” to the disgraced financier. “Epstein had been brought up through the underground tunnel that connected the MCC to the Federal Courthouse. Rather than touch the soiled bedding, Epstein, the germaphobe, had, without sleep, stood and paced for the past two days in his cell,” Wolff wrote on Substack, citing a 2021 piece he wrote and later published in Too Famous: The Rich, the Powerful, the Wishful, the D ****, the Notorious —Twenty Years of Columns, Essays and Reporting*. “A bit after noon, a marshal in a TV sort of garb — T-shirt, nylon jacket announcing U.S. MARSHAL, baseball cap — came in through a side door and stood legs apart, hands crossed, in front of a side door. Ten or 15 minutes later, Epstein seemed to be pushed out, a child at a first recital, and, for a second, hesitated. Then he slowly shuffled forward, head down. His blue prison shift was wrinkled and soiled, a brown streak down the left side.” Wolff wrote how the predator was “unshaven, his gray hair wild.” Said Wolff, “It seemed surprising he had the strength to pull out his own chair at the defense table. The faces of people within days or weeks of death can often seem aghast and uncomprehending, their eyes already seeing another world. Epstein looked as bad.”
‘Flip’ on Trump?
President Donald Trump was “obsessed with what [Jeffrey] Epstein knew about [Bill] Clinton,” according to author Michael Wolff. By: MEGA© Knewz (CA)
Epstein was allegedly waiting on either the White House or the Justice Department’s Southern District of New York office to reach out to him to play ball and “flip” to save himself from decades in prison. If the White House reached out, Wolff wrote, Epstein expected them to want him to spill details on former President Bill Clinton, who knew and had traveled with the financier for philanthropic initiatives for his Clinton Foundation many years earlier. (Clinton has long denied any wrongdoing.) “The White House, through the Justice Department, was looking to press a longtime Republican obsession, and [President Donald] Trump ace-in-the-hole, and get Epstein to flip and reveal the s** secrets of Bill Clinton,” Wolff explained. “Trump, if he was obsessed with Clinton, which he was, was also obsessed with what Epstein knew about Clinton and, likely, especially in the days after the E. Jean Carroll [lawsuit against Trump], badgering whoever could be badgered to squeeze him.” If the Southern District of New York’s attorneys met with Epstein, he believed they would be looking for him to turn his back on his old pal, Trump, amid questions about his business affairs. “SDNY had slipped Epstein’s arrest past Trump’s attorney general and watchdog Bill Barr — who, indeed, oddly recused himself after the arrest and then hurriedly (at Trump’s urgings, [Steve] Bannon was sure) unrecused himself,” Wolff claimed. Neither of those things came together for Epstein before his death.
Ghislaine Maxwell defends Trump
Ghislaine Maxwell praised President Donald Trump’s behavior when he was with Jeffrey Epstein. Critics speculate she’s angling for a pardon. By: MEGA© Knewz (CA)
While Epstein never faced punishment for his crimes, his co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell, did. She is currently serving a 20-year sentence for trafficking. However, she is hoping to receive a pardon from Trump. She was moved to a minimum-security women’s prison in Texas, known as “Club Fed” due to its cushy amenities, following a private meeting with Deputy U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche over the summer. In their interviews, Maxwell claimed, “I actually never saw the president in any type of massage setting. I never witnessed the president in any inappropriate setting in any way. The president was never inappropriate with anybody. In the times that I was with him, he was a gentleman in all respects.”
Trump’s about-face
Jeffrey Epstein died in a New York jail cell in 2019 about a month after he was arrested on trafficking charges. By: MEGA© Knewz (CA)
After months of distancing himself from all things Epstein amid claims Attorney General Pam Bondi and Deputy AG Blanche had privately told him his name appears in the infamous Epstein files, Trump faced a reckoning after 20,000 pages of Epstein’s emails and other documents — in which his name appears more than 1,000 times — were released by the House Oversight Committee, which obtained them from Epstein’s estate — not the DOJ or FBI. Just a week after Trump branded efforts to release any Epstein files a “hoax,” saying Democrats were only bringing them up to “deflect how badly they’ve done on the [government] shutdown,” he did something he’s rarely done: Trump changed course. “House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files, because we have nothing to hide, and it’s time to move on from this Democrat Hoax perpetrated by Radical Left Lunatics in order to deflect from the Great Success of the Republican Party,” the president wrote on Truth Social.
