"Newly released emails show Michael Wolff advising Jeffrey Epstein on how to use President Donald Trump's ties as PR and political currency, raising serious ethics concerns. The emails released by Democratic members of the House Oversight Committee have rightly focused on the enduring connection between Trump and Epstein. But within them lies an unsettling parallel narrative: the role of Wolff, a journalist who built his reputation claiming to hold the powerful to account, now seemingly advising one of the most notorious sexual predators of the era on how to exploit information about a future president."
"In December 2015 years after Epstein had pleaded guilty to sex crimes and registered as a sex offender Wolff wrote Epstein: If he [Trump] says he hasn't been on the plane or to the house then that gives you valuable PR and political currency. You can hang him."
"As a journalist, one's job is to expose the mechanisms of power, not help them operate more efficiently. At a minimum, these emails show Wolff crossing out of professional neutrality and into collaboration. He appears to have advised a convicted predator on how to leverage private knowledge for maximum reputational damage. Yes, other emails may come out to exonerate his role here. As of now, however, there is no suggestion of confronting the underlying crime, no effort to surface the truth, no acknowledgment that the currency in question derives from the exploitation of underage girls."
Newly released emails show Michael Wolff advising Jeffrey Epstein on how to use President Donald Trump's ties as public relations and political currency, prompting ethics concerns. In December 2015, years after Epstein pleaded guilty to sex crimes and registered as a sex offender, Wolff suggested that a denial from Trump about being on the plane or visiting the house could become "valuable PR and political currency" that Epstein could use. The correspondence indicates Wolff moved from reporting to active maneuvering, counseling a convicted predator on reputational weaponization rather than exposing the underlying crimes involving underage girls.
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