Jeffrey Epstein, the infamous child sex trafficker and former friend of President Donald Trump, privately warned after the 2016 election victory that there was “not a single decent cell in [Trump’s] body.”

Epstein made the comment in February 2017 in a private exchange with former Treasury Secretary and Harvard President Larry Summers.

“I have met some very bad people,” Epstein wrote in the email, “none as bad as Trump.”

He continued: “not a single decent cell in his body… so yeah, dangerous.”

Jeffrey Epstein told Larry Summers in 2017 that Donald Trump is
Jeffrey Epstein told Larry Summers in 2017 that Donald Trump is “dangerous” and doesn’t have “a decent cell in his body.”

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The email is one of 20,000 pages of documents released by the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday, all obtained through a subpoena from Epstein’s estate.

In another email, this one sent to Epstein’s accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell in 2011, Epstein observes that Trump is a “dog who has not barked,” likely because Trump “spent hours at my house” with someone whose name is redacted as “[VICTIM].”

Jeffrey Epstein (left) and Donald Trump (right) pose together at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, on February 22, 1997.
Jeffrey Epstein (left) and Donald Trump (right) pose together at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, on February 22, 1997.

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Epstein wrote in another email that Trump “knew about the girls.”

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The financier and sex offender died by apparent suicide while awaiting trial in a Manhattan jail cell in 2019, but the circumstances of his death have sparked speculation.

Trump has dismissed the public furor over Epstein’s emails as a “hoax” intended to distract from the federal government shutdown, which officially ended Thursday.

“Democrats are trying to bring up the Jeffrey Epstein hoax again because they will do anything to deflect how badly they have done with the shutdown and so many other issues,” Trump wrote in Truth Social. “Only a very bad or stupid Republican would fall into that trap.”