"Remove Trump," Jeffrey Epstein wrote to Ghislaine Maxwell by email shortly after his arrest for soliciting prostitution in 2006. The document, made public, is the latest revelation linking US President Donald Trump to fallen financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
A list of influential personalities
Epstein was responding to a request from Maxwell - his ex-girlfriend, business partner and accomplice in his sex-trafficking scheme - to "add or remove names" from a list of influential figures. According to Bloomberg, the list included Jimmy Cayne, former CEO of Bear Stearns, and Jes Staley, former CEO of Barclays.
The nature of the list remains unknown
Bloomberg was unable to determine the nature of this list. The email has no subject line or additional commentary, so it's impossible to know whether they were planning an event, preparing a list of greeting cards or something else.
Hundreds of e-mails analyzed by Bloomberg
This message is one of a hundred or so e-mails from Jeffrey Epstein's personal Yahoo account, analyzed by Bloomberg. Another of these messages mentions the US President: "You have to assume they went to Donald Trump," Maxwell wrote to Epstein in 2007, when the latter was conducting intense behind-the-scenes lobbying to convince federal prosecutors to drop their case against him.
Some 2,000 gifts worth $1.8M
Among the e-mails is a list of some 2,000 gifts, luxury items and payments totaling $1.8 million. next to each item is an annotation indicating whether they were intended for Epstein's friends, associates or victims.
Lingerie, chocolate and massage classes
This picture, created by one of Epstein's accountants, includes a $35,000 watch purchased for a former Bill Clinton aide, a Lexus dealership worth $71,000 for one of Epstein's lawyers, and other items - lingerie, chocolate, massage lessons - destined for teenage girls who later sued Epstein and Maxwell for sexual abuse.one of Epstein's lawyers, and other items - lingerie, chocolate, massage lessons - for teenage girls who later filed sexual abuse charges against Epstein and Maxwell.
Maxwell orchestrates spending
The document indicates that Maxwell helped Epstein arrange several of these gifts. However, it does not specify whether the intended recipients actually received them.
Maxwell at the heart of Epstein's strategy
Maxwell has always maintained that she was unaware of the details of Epstein's first sexual abuse case in the mid-2000s. Yet the e-mails show that she was well aware of the legal risks incurred by the sex offender, and that she helped him define his strategy down to the most crucial details, including discrediting his victims.
Political figures deny links with Epstein
The e-mails also contain references to influential political figures, including former New Mexico governor Bill Richardson, former US president Bill Clinton, Clinton aide Doug Band, US ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack and former Trump lawyer Alan Dershowitz. Barrack and Band all denied the links to Epstein revealed in the emails.
A salacious birthday note attributed to Trump
Bloomberg's revelation comes just days after Congress released a birthday note allegedly written by Trump for Epstein in 2003. The note contains a sketch of a woman's silhouette and several sentences with sexual connotations. Trump declined to respond to the letter, calling it a "closed subject". The White House denied that he was the author, claiming that his "Donald" signature (almost identical to other Trump signatures at the time) had been forged.