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Leaked Emails Reveal Epstein Wanted Trump Deleted From Mysterious Power List

Tom Latchem

Thu, September 11, 2025 at 8:22 AM PDT

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Billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein told Ghislaine Maxwell to “remove” Donald Trump from a mysterious power list, according to a new cache of intriguing emails released Thursday.

The trove—more than 18,000 messages from Epstein’s Yahoo account published by Bloomberg—depicts Maxwell as closely involved in money movements, reputational pushback, and intimate logistics.”

One of the most startling Trump-related moments is disarmingly brief. On Sept. 14, 2006, Maxwell wrote, “Plse review list and add or remove peeps,” attaching a roster of 51 politicians, financiers, and power players.

The purpose of the list isn’t stated—Bloomberg could not determine it from the email itself, given that there was no subject line or context to indicate what it referred to—Epstein’s two-word reply was short but striking.

It said simply: “Remove trump.”

The removal of Trump’s name from whatever the list was came two months after Epstein was charged in Florida with solicitation of prostitution, and as federal scrutiny was snowballing.

A year later, Epstein would sign a secretive 2007 non-prosecution deal that spared him federal charges.

Some accounts suggest Epstein and Trump had fallen out in 2004, with some attributing that to a multi-million-dollar property deal dispute. Epstein was found dead in his cell in 2019, at the age of 66, while facing child sex trafficking charges.

However, Trump—under intense pressure to explain his friendship with Epstein—told reporters in late July that he cut ties after Epstein “stole” female employees who worked at his Mar-a-Lago private members club.

Yet a Daily Beast exclusive in early August reported that the billionaire financier had remained a member of the exclusive venue until October 2007, more than a year after he was indicted on one count of soliciting prostitution, and despite widespread media coverage that disclosed allegations of his sexual contact with minors.

The president has sought to play down his friendship with a man he described in 2002 as “a terrific guy,” as the 79-year-old fights the release of the files related to the late pedophile financier.

And this latest exchange between Epstein and his associate and co-conspirator Maxwell, 63—who is serving a 20-year sentence for child sex trafficking—perhaps indicates that the friendship between Epstein and Trump had truly ended.

The messages also add detail to a well-documented social overlap in the late ’90s and early 2000s, including the widely seen 2000 photo of Trump, wife Melania, Epstein, and Maxwell at Mar-a-Lago, and coverage of numerous events where the now-president crossed paths with Epstein and Maxwell.

This latest release of Maxwell’s emails is likely to do little to quell the storm of questions facing him about Epstein.