Emails among 23,000 documents handed over to the US House Oversight Committee by the dead paedophiles’ estate reveal he was giving tips on how to handle the US President weeks before a crunch summit with Putin
Jeffrey Epstein claimed he advised Russian government figures on how to deal with Donald Trump – and gave tips just weeks before the US President held a crunch summit with Vladimir Putin.
The messages came in 23,000 documents handed over to the US House Oversight Committee by dead paedophile’s estate.
The financier’s repeated attempts to wield influence internationally were shown in a 2018 email exchange between him and Thorbjørn Jagland, an associate and the former Prime Minister of Norway – who was Secretary General of the Council of Europe at the time. During his time as Secretary General, Jagland was accused of being soft on Russia and slow to tackle corruption.
Jagland was also chair of the Nobel Committee in 2009, when the body awarded the peace prize to Barack Obama. Epstein wrote to him in June 2018: “I think you might suggest to Putin that [Russian foreign minister Sergei] Lavrov can get insight on talking to me. [Former Russian UN Ambassador] Vitaly Churkin used to, but he died?!”
Churkin was Russia’s longest serving ambassador to the UN, and had died a year earlier. Jagland replied: “I’ll meet Lavrovs assistant on Monday and will suggest. Thankyou fo[r] a lovely evening. I’ll com[e] to UN high level week.”
Epstein replied: “Churkin was great. He understood Trump after our conversations. It is not complex. He must be seen to get something. It is that simple.”
Epstein’s bid to meet up with Lavrov came a few weeks before Trump met Putin in Helsinki. Later he criticised Trump’s performance at the summit to former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers. Summers wrote in an email: “Do the Russians have stuff on Trump? Today was appalling even by his standards .”
“My email is full with similar comments, wow,” Epstein replied. “I’m sure his view is that it went super well. He thinks he has charmed his adversary.. Admittedly he has no idea of the symbolism. He has no idea of most things.”