Startling public comments from author Michael Wolff and House Speaker Mike Johnson appear to have eerily foreshadowed a major development in the long-running Jeffrey Epstein saga, just hours before Democrats released a cache of never-before-seen emails.
Premonitory Remarks Before the Release
The biographer Michael Wolff featured on a Daily Beast podcast titled "Epstein Files are About to Spill Into Open," which aired approximately twelve hours before the email release. During the podcast, Wolff speculated extensively on the contents of the Epstein files, describing them theoretically as "everything that exists within the United States government on Jeffrey Epstein."
He detailed the expected congressional process, stating the House would vote to subpoena the files, but would then have to "define what they're looking for" as the documents are scattered across various government departments. Crucially, Wolff asserted that the scandal "will continue to haunt Donald Trump" and that he personally would continue trying to get to the bottom of it.
The Bombshell Email Contents
The emails, released by minority Democrats on the House Oversight Committee, contained explosive correspondence between Wolff, the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, and Ghislaine Maxwell.
In one email dated 15 December 2015, the night of a Republican primary debate, Wolff advised Epstein on how to handle Donald Trump's presidential campaign. He informed Epstein that CNN was planning to ask Trump about his relationship with the financier.
Epstein sought Wolff's counsel on crafting an answer for Trump. Wolff's apparent reply was stark: "I think you should let him hang himself... If he says he hasn’t been on the plane or to the house, then that gives you a valuable PR and political currency." He further suggested Epstein could "hang him" for positive benefit or "save him, generating a debt" if a Trump victory looked likely.
Another email from Epstein to Maxwell, dated April 2011, claimed that Trump had "spent hours" with a victim at his home, whose name was redacted but was later identified by the White House as the late Virginia Giuffre.
Political Fallout and Dismissals
Concurrent with Wolff's podcast, Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson made his own significant comments. In a CNN interview on The Lead with Jake Tapper, he declared that calls to release the remaining Epstein files were a "moot point."
Johnson argued it was immaterial because Democrats on the House Oversight Committee had already shared a "treasure trove" of 43,000 pages of documents from their deep investigation into the Epstein case.
Following the email release, the White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, swiftly responded, accusing Democrats of a "smear" campaign. She labelled the correspondence as "selectively leaked emails" used to "create a fake narrative." Wolff himself told CNN that he did not "quite remember the context" of the emails but acknowledged they were part of a broader conversation with Epstein about his relationship with Trump.
The latest document dump has successfully reignited the controversy, ensuring the Epstein scandal and its connections to powerful figures remain firmly in the public eye.
