Overview
- ABC reported on 2018 correspondence, previously posted by House Oversight Committee Democrats, in which Jeffrey Epstein corresponded with Steve Bannon and offered political advice.
- In one exchange, Bannon pushed for removing Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, while Epstein argued ousting Powell mattered more than the Syria pullout or James Mattis’s departure and praised Mnuchin’s performance.
- Epstein also suggested that Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner should step down from their White House adviser roles.
- President Trump dismissed the renewed focus as a Democratic distraction in a Truth Social post, citing tens of thousands of pages released by the Justice Department and labeling Epstein a Democrat.
- Democrats separately shared a 2017 note to Larry Summers in which Epstein called Trump “dangerous,” and there have been no new legal actions since Epstein’s 2019 death was ruled a suicide.