Donald Trump is hitting back against being repeatedly named in the newly released batch of Jeffrey Epstein files. Trump insists that, despite all appearances to the contrary, these massive document dumps actually clear his name, claiming that this is a political conspiracy aimed at damaging him. As such, Trump is threatening major legal action against the conspirators, author Michael Wolff, and the Epstein estate.
Fox News reported that this topic came up when Trump was responding to questions related to the release of the latest set of Epstein-related documents. He didn’t mince words, specifically accusing Wolff of working with Epstein.
“It looked like this guy, Wolff, was a writer, was conspiring with Epstein to do harm to me,” Trump said. He added that he was told by “very important people” that the documents not only absolve him but actually show the opposite of what people, “you know, the radical left,” hoped for. Trump called Wolff a “third-rate writer” and stated the conspiracy to hurt him, “politically or otherwise, and that came through loud and clear.”
Trump seems to be forgetting that the idea of him potentially being complicit in crimes doesn’t just stem from one record
It is clear what inspired this claim. A March 2016 email where Wolff provided Epstein with some PR advice. These communications show Wolff encouraging Epstein to create an “immediate counter-narrative” to James Patterson’s book about the disgraced financier, Filthy Rich: A Powerful Billionaire, the Sex Scandal that Undid Him, and All the Justice that Money Can Buy. You could argue that a letter Epstein wrote around this time was intended to meet this goal.
In a March 2016 email, Wolff explicitly told Epstein that using Trump would be an “ideal opportunity” to “make the story about something other than you, while, at the same time, letting you frame your own story.” He pushed the idea further, suggesting that becoming “anti-Trump gives you a certain political cover which you decidedly don’t have now.”
If you look back further, a previously released February 2016 email shows Wolff suggesting to Epstein that the financier was the “bullet” that could end Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. Given this alleged coordination, President Trump said there’s a high likelihood he will sue both Wolff and the Epstein estate. He emphasized that Epstein was “conspiring with Wolff to do harm to me politically. That’s not a friend.”
Despite the latest allegations against Trump, and Epstein “doing his best to disparage President Trump,” Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche stated on Friday that none of the communications suggest President Trump “had done anything criminal or had any inappropriate contact with any of his victims.” Well, that remains to be seen.
Published: Feb 2, 2026 05:50 am