Jeffrey Epstein advised Steve Bannon during 2018 pro-Trump media campaign

"The convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein apparently served as a behind-the-scenes adviser to the former Trump official and Maga influencer Steve Bannon during an August 2018 media campaign to defend Trump and his agenda, and to promote Bannon's media ventures. Text messages released by the House oversight committee on Wednesday detail a six-day exchange between the men from 17 to 23 August, and show Epstein coaching Bannon on television appearances and political messaging."

"One side of the conversation is sent from an iMessage account associated with an Epstein email address, and while the name of Epstein's correspondent is redacted in the documents as released, contextual clues including references to Fox News appearances, his August 2017 firing from the White House and his work on the documentary Trump @War make it clear the other participant is Bannon."

"The exchanges offer a detailed picture of Bannon's efforts to continue supporting Trump a year after his acrimonious departure from the White House, and show Epstein's close involvement in crafting messaging on tax cuts, immigration and even security clearance revocations. They also show the two men's responses to breaking scandals. When news broke on 23 August that National Enquirer publisher David Pecker had received immunity in the Michael Cohen case, Bannon texted Huge event huge, followed by More women payoffs coming."

Jeffrey Epstein served as a behind-the-scenes adviser to Steve Bannon during an August 17–23, 2018 media campaign to defend Donald Trump and promote Bannon's media ventures. Text messages released by a congressional oversight committee detail coaching on television appearances, political messaging, tax cuts, immigration and security-clearance revocations. One side of the exchange originated from an iMessage account tied to an Epstein email address; the other participant is identified as Bannon through contextual references to Fox News, his August 2017 White House firing, and the Trump @War documentary. The messages show real-time responses to scandals and forecasting of further payoffs. Bannon did not respond to multiple requests for comment, and earlier public statements linked Bannon to Epstein files while calling for a special investigator to review Epstein documents.

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