Trump In Complete Crisis Over Epstein Email: Wolff

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🗓️ 16 November 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Michael Wolff joins Joanna Coles as the Epstein email deluge crashes straight into Donald Trump’s White House, leaving the president uncharacteristically mute and visibly cornered. Wolff argues this is the moment he’s warned about for years—the Trump–Epstein relationship finally breaking into full view. As newly released emails hint at suppressed testimony, secret negotiations, and a “dog that hasn’t barked,” Joanna presses Wolff on why MAGA is demanding total transparency even as it risks politically detonating Trump himself. Wolff explains why Ghislaine Maxwell’s family may now be threatening leaks to pressure the White House, and why Trump’s go-to strategy—delay—may not work against a story that resurfaces again and again. What does Trump do when the one scandal he can’t outtalk finally catches up with him?

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0:00.0	You have to have a certain kind of finesse and patience to be able to hold two contradictory truths
0:07.6	in your head at the same time, which is to say that Jeffrey Epstein was a monster, but he had
0:15.2	important things to say. Would you do it all the same again? Do you have any regrets about this?
0:20.5	I have no regrets at all. I would do it exactly the same again? Do you have any regrets about this? I have no regrets at all.
0:22.1	I would do it exactly the same.
0:24.3	This is the way it is done.
0:28.0	And once more, I am the only one who has been shouting from the rooftops
0:36.0	that the central issue here is Donald Trump's relationship
0:42.1	to this monster.
0:47.4	Michael.
0:48.9	Joanna?
0:50.0	This Epstein, Epstein story will not go away.
0:55.1	It's just drenching everything.
0:57.4	The entire country feels like it's come to a standstill.
1:01.0	Well, and I just let me say, Russian, to say, finally, finally, finally.
1:08.0	I mean, this is a story that has been ready to go on the front burner for months
1:15.1	and months and months, if not, if not years.
1:18.0	It is a story that I have been pressing again and again and again.
1:22.8	In fact, you and I, the first, before the election, together, The Daily Beast and I released tape of Jeffrey Epstein very explicitly talking about his relationship with Donald Trump.
1:42.9	What did we get out of that?
1:44.8	But, you know, we got a lot of, a lot of Internet action out of that.
1:49.1	The broader media crickets.
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