""I think you should let him hang himself," Wolff wrote to Epstein about Trump in December 2015. "If he says he hasn't been on the plane or to the house, then that gives you a valuable PR and political currency. You can hang him in a way that potentially generates a positive benefit for you, or, if it really looks like he could win, you could save him, generating a debt.""
""in such a way that could garner you great sympathy and help finish him.""
Janet Malcolm contrasted a courting reporting phase with a betraying writing phase through Joe McGinniss's treatment of Jeffrey MacDonald. Michael Wolff appears to have adopted a similar approach in emails with Jeffrey Epstein, positioning himself less as a reporter than as a media adviser. In December 2015 Wolff advised letting Donald Trump "hang himself" and described denials about being on Epstein's plane or at his house as "valuable PR and political currency," suggesting that saving Trump could create a debt. In October 2016 Wolff offered to speak about Trump "in such a way that could garner you great sympathy and help finish him."
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