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Newly released congressional emails have revealed a shocking twist in the Jeffrey Epstein saga — one that connects the disgraced financier to both Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. In a June 2018 exchange with Thorbjorn Jagland, then Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Epstein claimed he could offer the Kremlin “valuable insight” into Trump ahead of the Helsinki summit. He even urged Jagland to pass a message to Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, referencing late diplomat Vitaly Churkin, who he said “understood Trump after our conversations.” The revelations, first reported by POLITICO, suggest Epstein was attempting to insert himself into U.S.-Russia diplomatic channels during a crucial moment in Trump’s presidency.  Watch the full breakdown and tell us in the comments — what was Epstein really trying to achieve? Was he seeking influence… or protecting someone?  #EpsteinFiles #TrumpPutin #HelsinkiSummit #EpsteinEmails #PoliticalScandal

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00:00A series of emails released this week showed Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced

00:12financier and convicted sex offender, claimed he could provide the Kremlin with

00:17valuable insight into then-President Donald Trump ahead of his controversial

00:22summit with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki. The correspondence, made public by

00:29congressional investigators on Wednesday, exposes a tangled web of contacts bridging

00:34Epstein, international diplomats and the White House. Epstein reached out to Thorbjorn Jagland,

00:40then Secretary-General of the Council of Europe, suggesting he could convey a message to Putin

00:45on how to handle Trump. In a June 2018 email, Epstein elaborated on his perspective of Trump,

00:52who was in his first term as President, telling Jagland that understanding Trump

00:57is not complex. He added that Trump must be seen to get something.

01:03Epstein further referenced the late Batali Cherkin, Russia's ambassador to the United Nations,

01:09noting Cherkin understood Trump after our conversations and suggesting that Jagland

01:14relay similar guidance to Putin through Sergei Lavrov, Russia's veteran foreign minister.

01:20Jagland replied that he would meet Lavrov's assistant on Monday to relay the message.

01:25The email exchange is part of a larger cache of over 20,000 messages, initially released

01:32by House Democrats and later shared in full by Republicans on the House Oversight Committee.

01:38White House Press Secretary Caroline Livet dismissed the implications of the emails at a briefing on

01:43Wednesday. These emails prove absolutely nothing other than the fact that President Trump did nothing

01:49wrong. And what President Trump has always said is that he was from Palm Beach and so was Jeffrey Epstein.

01:55Jeffrey Epstein was a member at Mar-a-Lago until President Trump kicked him out because Jeffrey

02:01Epstein was a pedophile and he was a creep. And this email you refer to with the name of a victim that was

02:07unredacted now and has since been reported on in this room, so I will go ahead and say it, Virginia Guffrey.

02:13And it was CBS's own reporting Ouija that recently wrote that Ms. Guffrey maintained, and God rest her

02:20soul, that she maintained that there was nothing inappropriate she ever witnessed, that President

02:25Trump was always extremely professional and friendly to her. And so I think it's a question worth asking

02:30the Democrat Party, and you should all go ask them after this briefing, of why they chose to redact that

02:35name of a victim who has already publicly made statements about her relationship with Jeffrey Epstein

02:40and is unfortunately no longer with us. The emails also shed light on the highly scrutinized

02:46Helsinki summit in July 2018, where Trump appeared to contradict US intelligence agencies and downplayed

02:54allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 election. Larry Summers, former US Treasury Secretary,

03:02emailed Epstein the same day, questioning whether the Russians have stuff on Trump and calling the summit

03:08appalling, even by his standards. Epstein, meanwhile, described Trump's approach to the meeting as

03:15predictable and suggested the President likely believed it went super well. The documents also

03:23reveal a stark rift between Trump and Epstein over time. While Trump referred to Epstein as a terrific guy

03:30in a 2002 interview, he distanced himself by 2019, claiming the two had fallen out a long time ago.

03:40Leave It said on Wednesday that Trump had kicked Epstein out of his Mar-a-Lago club

03:45decades ago for being a creep to his female employees. Further correspondence shows Epstein reaching out to

03:53author Michael Wolff in 2019, asserting that Trump knew about the girls as he asked Ghislaine Maxwell to stop.

04:02Epstein added,

04:03Trump said he asked me to resign. Never a member ever.

04:08Epstein died in prison later that year, while Trump has consistently denied any wrongdoing in connection with

04:14him. The release of these emails connecting the President, Epstein and Russian officials reignites

04:22questions about the unusual intersections of power, influence and scandal surrounding Trump's first term.

04:30Even as the White House maintains that nothing untoward occurred, the details paint a provocative

04:35portrait of a President whose approach to Russia and his associations remain a subject of intense scrutiny.

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