Does the FBI have Epstein's secret photos of Donald Trump?
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Veteran journalist and author Michael Wolff has claimed that Jeffrey Epstein once showed him Polaroid photos of Donald Trump with topless young girls—and that the FBI may now have those images in its possession.Speaking on The Court of History podcast with Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz, Wolff recalled an encounter with Epstein shortly after Trump's 2016 election victory. According to Wolff, Epstein went to his safe and pulled out a stack of Polaroids featuring Trump at Epstein's Palm Beach mansion.'They were kind of spread out like playing cards,' Wolff said. 'And it was Trump—with girls of uncertain age.'Wolff said he vividly remembered three of the photographs: 'In two of them, topless girls are sitting on Trump's lap. In another, he has a visible stain on his pants while several girls are laughing and pointing at it.'He estimated the photos were taken between 1999 and 2001. He also speculated that federal agents may have seized the images during the FBI's 2019 raid of Epstein's New York townhouse, which followed Epstein's arrest on sex trafficking charges.'I think it's certainly not unlikely that they were in the safe when the FBI came in after his arrest and took everything,' Wolff noted.The FBI has declined to comment on whether such photographs were ever recovered.The explosive claim adds to ongoing scrutiny of Epstein's links to powerful men—including Trump, who has attempted to downplay their relationship. In a recent interview with NBC, Trump stated: 'Even Epstein's lawyer said I had nothing to do with it … I was not friendly with Epstein for probably 18 years before he died.'Wolff, known for his Trump-era bestseller Fire and Fury, said he had occasional contact with Epstein between 2014 and Trump's first year in office.'Epstein and Trump had been the best of friends for almost 15 years,' he said. 'They came from the same place. They were instrumental in each other's rise.'He added that Epstein often bragged about relationships with world leaders, including Fidel Castro, Mohammed bin Salman, and Vladimir Putin—though Wolff cautioned that Epstein blurred the line between fact and fantasy.'Let's not go overboard,' Wolff said. 'There was a reality—and then there was his augmented reality.'He also revealed that former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak held private conversations with Epstein about Trump. 'Ehud was interested in knowing everything possible that Jeffrey could tell him about Trump,' Wolff claimed.Recently, Elon Musk fueled speculation with a now-deleted post on X, writing: 'Donald Trump is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public.'Trump allies, including Kash Patel and Dan Bongino, have dismissed suggestions of a cover-up, with Patel telling Joe Rogan earlier this year: 'There's been like 15 years of people coming in and creating fictions about this that don't exist.'However, as of now, the alleged existence of the photos remains unverified.
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