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Inside Trump's Head

I Know Why Trump Made Epstein His Best Friend

Inside Trump's Head

The Daily Beast

Society & Culture, News

4.3698 Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Michael Wolff joins Joanna Coles to trace the unsettling origins of Donald Trump’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, long before public scandal or denial. Wolff begins with their bond in the late-1980s New York, where Trump was chasing Manhattan legitimacy and Epstein was emerging as a fixer fluent in money, women, and leverage. From Trump introducing Epstein as “my associate—Jeffy,” a pattern forms of shared ambition, cruelty, and secrecy. Wolff links those early dynamics to Trump’s financial near-collapse in the 1990s and Epstein’s claim that he helped Trump survive bankruptcy while keeping his tax returns hidden. If Epstein helped shape Trump’s instincts before power, what does that say about the secrets that still follow him now? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

My name is Sherlock Holmes.

0:01.8

It's an unusual name.

0:03.5

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0:07.3

What game are we playing today?

0:08.8

Discover the origins.

0:10.1

It's leaving.

0:10.7

Those days are surely behind me.

0:12.3

Of crime's most iconic mind.

0:14.4

There has been a break-in.

0:16.7

Astoned.

0:17.6

You should be a detective.

0:18.8

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0:39.6

Let's see. Where's the app? Oh, here it is.

0:44.4

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1:00.0

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1:06.2

calendar girls.

1:07.8

And they recruit all of these girls to come down to Mar-a-Lago for this beauty pageant. When the

1:14.3

girls get there, they find that it's an audience that consists of two and it's only Donald

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