It turns out leading Washington strategist Juleanna Glover was privately trading emails with Jeffrey Epstein about potential presidential tickets “outside the partisan lanes” while publicly advocating for a third-party candidate to oppose President Trump. This correspondence, which took place a decade after Epstein’s child prostitution conviction, offers a look into the connections he maintained among the powerful.
Glover, a well-known Never Trump figure who worked in the George W. Bush White House and advised John McCain, publicly called for a “morally lucid” leader during Trump’s first term. However, her private discussions with Epstein went much further. In an August 2018 email to a group of “third party thinkers,” which she then forwarded to Epstein’s now-infamous [email protected] address, Glover even threw out some truly “radical combinations.”
Per Politico, her dream tickets mixed and matched figures like former Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg, former Republican Governors Larry Hogan and Nikki Haley, and even Microsoft tycoon Bill Gates, who was, coincidentally, also an Epstein associate. She proposed pairings like “Biden/Romney? Bill Gates/Hogan? Bloomberg/Haley? Howard Schultz/Bob Corker? Sandberg/Kasich?”
It’s mind-boggling to think about these hypotheticals
This exchange about centrist fantasy politics was just a small part of a professional and political relationship that spanned more than a year. These workaday messages could have easily been exchanged with any well-regarded opinion columnist. They now underline how many influential people treated Epstein like just another rich guy to be courted, rather than a convicted sex criminal with a deeply troubling reputation.
Glover told reporters her motivation for engaging with Epstein was solely to dig up any information that could sink Trump’s reelection. However, there are no emails between Glover and Epstein that support this claim. Glover also admitted she asked Epstein for help in a business matter in 2017, to connect her then-most prominent client, Elon Musk, with Saudi Arabia.
Glover initially connected with Epstein through journalist Michael Wolff. Wolff, a critic of Trump, had even told Epstein in 2016 that he was the “Trump bullet” to stop his rise. Wolff positioned Glover as someone smart enough for Epstein to take advice from, hoping she might convince him to go public about what he knew about Trump. Epstein’s collaborator, Ghislaine Maxwell, has since promised to clear Trump’s name if he pardons her.
Beyond political plotting and business dealings, Glover even attempted to fashion Epstein into a champion of democracy, as he believed it would help his reputation. Glover, who often works pro bono on pro-democracy efforts, had hoped Epstein’s money could help cash-strapped foreign groups.
The last mention of Glover in the released files is from March 2019, when Epstein emailed her a link to a letter to the editor of The New York Times written by his lawyers, defending him and claiming the number of young women involved was “vastly exaggerated.” She didn’t reply. Epstein died by suicide in his New York jail cell five months later, in August 2019.
Published: Mar 14, 2026 08:16 am