https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/12/jeffrey-epstein-donald-trump-russia-emails-00648919 Nearly a month before President Donald Trump met Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Helsinki in 2018, Jeffrey Epstein attempted to pass a message to Russia’s top diplomat: If you want to understand Trump, talk to me.
“I think you might suggest to putin that lavrov can get insight on talking to me,” Epstein wrote in a June 24, 2018, email to Thorbjorn Jagland, a former prime minister of Norway who was leading the Council of Europe at the time of the exchange. Lavrov was an apparent reference to Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s longtime foreign minister.
In the email exchange, one of hundreds released Wednesday by congressional investigators, Epstein indicated he had previously talked about Trump with Vitaly Churkin, Russia’s forceful ambassador to the United Nations, before Churkin died in 2017.
“Churkin was great,” Epstein, the late convicted sex offender, wrote. “He understood trump after our conversations. it is not complex. he must be seen to get something its that simple.”
The exchange was among dozens that showcase Epstein’s extraordinary network of international associates, whom he often corresponded with about Trump’s first-term policy decisions.
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The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the emails, but press secretary Karoline Leavitt said at a briefing Wednesday the broader set of emails “prove absolutely nothing other than President Trump did nothing wrong.”
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Days later, Epstein was flexing his overseas relationships in an email exchange with former Trump adviser Steve Bannon, telling him in a July 23, 2018, message that Bannon needed to be physically present in Europe to wield influence on the continent.
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Among Epstein’s international connections was Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, a businessman based in the United Arab Emirates. Sulayem asked Epstein two weeks before Trump’s first inauguration if he should “accept the invitation” extended to him by Trump associate Tom Barrack, who oversaw the event.
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>>1457174 >“I think you might suggest to putin that lavrov can get insight on talking to me,” This sounds suspiciously like exactly what an intelligence operative would do if they were working for a foreign government, like I don't know, Israel?
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>>1457179 These leaked emails don't seem to mention Israel, but everyone knows he was in contact with them. There must be another batch of email leaks ready to drop soon.
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>>1457179 >its okay, Epstein was working for our best buddy Israel do MAGAfags really?
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>>1457174 >Epstein starts talking about how he has major dirt on Trump in 2018 >Next year he "commits suicide" in his prison cell How interesting.
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>>1457211 Even more interesting when you think about who the President was when this was happening.
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>>1457189 >These leaked emails don't seem to mention Israel Why would intelligence agents, especially the ones from advanced countries like Israel, communicate official intelligence stuff over email services that they themselves know can be hacked because they hack them regularly
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No Russian collusion.
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>>1457231 The emails are between Epstein and other people who aren't intel agents. Epstein was bragging about his connections.
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>>1457253 The best is the email from Prince Andrew to Maxwell asking "What's all this then?". Very British.
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>>1457226 Putin had motive to kill Epstein. He couldn't let chump Trump lose elections
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>>1457326 Say Fred, how long is that human centipede in hell now? And what will be Trump's position when he gets down there?
