Let’s all take a minute to remember the time when everyone was telling us that Trump and Epstein were besties and that this would be the scandal that finally brought Trump down.
Epstein Was Trying To Offer Prosecutors Dirt On Trump, Report Says—But Didn’t Have Anythinghttps://t.co/njJTbMq6hI pic.twitter.com/L6zFYo04wZ
— Forbes (@Forbes) June 16, 2026
This report is just another in the stack of evidence that Trump and Epstein were more like enemies rather than friendly acquaintances.
From Forbes:
Jeffrey Epstein’s attorneys were in discussions with prosecutors before his death about potentially trying to get him a more lenient sentence if he gave up information that could help them in other cases, The New York Times reported Tuesday — with notes suggesting Epstein wanted to pass along information about President Donald Trump.
Epstein’s whole thing was using underage girls to trap rich and influential people in blackmail schemes.
He knew that Trump was hated by the establishment, so he tried to entice his jailers with the possibility of dirt on the president.
But, guess what, nothing happened!
The New York Post has even more details:
Child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein tried to dig up dirt on President Trump in a desperate bid for leniency in the days leading up to his suicide, but was unable to deliver anything of substance, according to a report.
Epstein became fixated on the president after he was arrested in 2019, as his lawyers tried to hammer out a deal with prosecutors if the disgraced financier could provide helpful information about other defendants, according to the New York Times.
During his many marathon meetings with his parade of lawyers while he was locked up in a federal jail in Lower Manhattan, Epstein often had his nose buried in a legal pad scrawling disjointed one-liners about the commander-in-chief, such as ‘Trump is a total con artist — smoke & mirrors’ and ‘Never had money.’
The best dirt Epstein had on Trump was … that he isn’t really as rich as he claims?
Honestly, this sounds more like your Trump-Deranged aunt than it does a criminal mastermind.
His scribblings also included grousing about the difficulties he endured as a wealthy ‘Pedophile in jail,’ which he claimed included being denied phone calls and visits, according to the outlet.
This is a disaster for them https://t.co/58zCWHox2O
— Serf (@TheRoyalSerf) June 16, 2026
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People view a timeline of Trump’s relationship with Epstein at “The Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room” on the exhibit’s opening day in Washington, DC, on June 9, 2026. (Credit: JIM LO SCALZO/EPA/Shutterstock)
(…) Since Trump’s return to the White House in 2025, political opponents who spent four years forgetting that Epstein ever existed have suddenly morphed into Torquemada-level fanatics about the affairs of the late, unlamented Epstein.
As usual for the left, the goal has nothing to do with the truth — Epstein’s associates were overwhelmingly leftish (even if you leave Bill Clinton out of it), and his political contributions all leaned decidedly in the Democratic direction.
The aim of the left instead is to try to link Epstein and his evil to Trump in any way imaginable — to make it appear the two men were friends and that Trump is somehow tainted with Epstein’s crimes. But the magazine report does exactly the opposite.
In fact, Trump’s name comes up only five times in the report’s nearly 150 paragraphs, twice as a means of establishing another person’s identity (former Trump adviser Steve Bannon, former Trump Attorney General Robert Barr), and three times in phrases that make it clear Epstein was anything but a friend of the man who’s now in the Oval Office.
In one paragraph describing the methodology behind the mammoth report, the article stated:
“We obtained about a dozen pages of other notes handwritten by Epstein in jail that were also previously unseen — including some in which he tried and failed to come up with significant information he might have on Donald Trump to offer to prosecutors,” the report stated. (Emphasis added.)
In another paragraph, buried deep in the report, the article notes that:
“His attorneys discussed with federal prosecutors the prospect of a proffer: giving them information that might be useful in other cases in exchange for the possibility of some leniency in his own. Epstein was particularly preoccupied with what he might have on Donald Trump, who was then serving his first term in office. Jotting on a legal pad, he returned to the president again and again, trying to dredge up anything to offer prosecutors. But his scribblings — ‘Trump is a total con artist — smoke & mirrors’ and ‘Never had money’— suggest that he could come up with little that wasn’t already known.” (Emphasis added.)