Explosive new audio reveals that Donald Trump detailed how he really felt about his White House staff to Jeffrey Epstein, and Epstein touted old photos of Trump with half-naked women taken at the site of the pedophile’s rampant sexual abuse of young girls.

On author Michael Wolff’s Thursday episode of his podcast Fire and Fury, Wolff shared a recording of a conversation with Epstein from 2017, in which the convicted sex offender and alleged human trafficker recounted Trump’s true feelings about members of his administration, The Daily Beast reported.

“His people fight each other and then have outsiders—he sort of poisons the well outside,” Epstein told Wolff. Epstein went on to paraphrase Trump’s candid statements about his former strategist Steve Bannon, former chief of staff Reince Priebus, and counselor Kellyanne Conway.

“He will tell 10 people, ‘Bannon’s a scumbag’ and ‘Priebus is not doing a good job’ and ‘Kelly has a big mouth’—what do you think? ‘Jamie Dimon says that you’re a problem and I shouldn’t keep you. And I spoke to Carl Icahn. And Carl thinks I need a new spokesperson,’” Epstein said.

“‘So Kelly[anne]—even though I hired Kellyanne’s husband—Kellyanne is just too much of a wildcard.’ And then he tells Bannon, ‘You know I really want to keep you, but Kellyanne hates you,’” Epstein continued.

Wolff said that he had recordings of roughly “100 hours of Epstein talking about the inner workings of the Trump White House and about his long standing, deep relationship with Donald Trump

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“And in some of the pictures, they’re sitting in his lap,” Wolff said. “I mean, and, and then there’s one I especially remember where there’s a stain, a telltale stain and on the front of Trump’s pants, and the girls are pointing at him and laughing.”

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I’m saying. I have so many questions to ask, but I don’t want any of that knowledge burned into my brain.

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Holy shit, this shit really came out 15 years ago? I remember when it first came out, it still holds up, lol.

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Congrats grandpa, you’re old now!

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N…no it coulldn’t have been 15 years. No… no, no, no!

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Hey, that was nice.

Also, unrelatedly: When did it become normal for old music videos to be swapped with blurry AI-upscaled versions? So distracting once you see it…

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I think it’s YouTube.

Unrelated: are you really actually frankenstein?

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That’s probably youtube video compression being youtube video compression. Even at higher resolutions it’s always a little blurry

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Chef’s kiss.

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Where are the recordings

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Exactly, I’m not doubting they exist, but if they have them, they need released publicly, like, now.

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Release! The! Tapes!

Come on, do it. It could have a real impact.

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Oh my god, you just got out of your time machine from 2016, didn’t you??? That’s so cool! So anyway, to catch you up…

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Daily beast published the referenced samples on YouTube.

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I looked, and it’s a whole 1:12 of the alleged 100:00:00. That’s not enough.

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Wolff claimed the FBI discovered the photos in Epstein’s safe when the agency raided his home in 2019, but never released the images to the public.

Exsqueeze me?

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Ok, fine, they didn’t release them.

Who the fuck decided not to release them?!?!

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Someone who was on them, in all likelihood.

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I mean…this is the FBI we are talking about. Anyone the least bit surprised?

This is the outfit that kneecapped Hillary on purpose.

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What were they supposed to do? Release nude pictures of abused minors to the public? Or transfer them to the team performing the investigation? Going to say people should have been more vocal about their existence, but discussing ongoing investigations is often considered wrong.

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Remember Julian Assange, Ed Snowden, or Chelsea Manning?

Public turned on whistleblowers.

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Somebody should make a FOIA request for them.

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It would be declined. 100% guaranteed.

Source: I’ve made countless FOIA requests. Federal agencies decline the most innocuous requests for the least valid of reasons. Something important like this would be declined instantly.

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Wait, so information is not in fact “free”?

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They were pictures of victims topless to be fair. Additionally it’s not clear to me that they are over 18.

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Fair point. So edit them out.

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If what this guy had was really that big, he wouldn’t have sat on it for 7 years…

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Sat on it for too long, now there’s a stain

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He doesn’t give a shit about justice.

It is just a matter of waiting until the epstein stuff dies down and hitting right before trump can potentially have the government stop it.

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This won’t matter to the people who need to hear it most.

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This particular recording doesn’t matter to me, someone who hates Trump and wants bad news out there to remind people how bad he is. He pitted his staff against each other. A pretty toxic workplace, but not something that’s really high priority in making a decision.

It doesn’t even establish that Epstein and Trump were close. This could all have been him listening to the rumor mill or getting a description from someone on the inside because he was a stupid rich scumbag and could get access to high profile Republican places. If he’s actually got 100 hours of bombshell recordings, this is the dumbest one to lead with.

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I was trying to get across more than anything is you could build a nuanced, structured, and well-supported argument for any of his major faults, and any of his supporters would not be swayed because their opinion isn’t based in fact.

Not necessarily that this was the nail in the coffin, just that you could hear a dozen of these stories a week, each of varying credibility, and it wouldn’t matter if one had him dead to rights.

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No one is trying to convert the faithful at this hour. That time is long past, but there are plenty of Trump-leaners who are uncomfortable with the choice and could switch or decide to stay home if they hear something they just can’t accept.

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