Jeffrey Epstein, the pedophile who allegedly committed suicide in federal prison in 2019, had photos of Donald Trump with “young girls” who were “topless,” according to a new podcast episode from journalist Michael Wolff. Epstein also allegedly said that “Trump had no qualms,” according to Wolff, who interviewed the financier at length before his death.

Wolff made explosive claims on his podcast fire and furyand the anecdotes were widely debated and dissected on social media platforms on Friday. The journalist said he probably had “100 hours” of audio recordings of interviews with Epstein, but did not indicate plans to publish them.

“Epstein repeatedly showed the photographs he had of Trump. And there were about a half dozen photographs and they were from, you know, the late ’90s,” Wolff said. “They were Trump at Epstein’s house in Palm Beach, sitting around the pool with these young girls. And the girls are topless and in some photos they are sitting on his lap. I mean, and then there’s one that I particularly remember where there’s a stain, a telltale stain on the front of Trump’s pants and the girls are pointing at him and laughing.

When Wolff was asked where the photos were today, he strongly suggested that a Trump ally could have hidden them from the public, given that Trump was president at the time Epstein’s home was raided .

“You know, he would go in there and he would take them out of the safe,” Wolff said of Epstein. “And then he put them back in the safe. And I would say it was likely that they would have been there when the FBI – Trump’s FBI at that point, not to put too fine a point on it – raided Epstein’s house and took the contents of the safe in 2019.”

Trump’s friendship with Epstein has long been known, and there are numerous photos of the two men together, including the one at the top of this article, when they attended a “Victoria’s Secret Angels” event in New York in 1997. But the new details reported by Wolff are sure to raise new questions about Trump, who has been asked about Epstein in recent podcast interviews.

“Um, he was a good salesman,” Trump told the podcaster. Lex Friedman in September when asked about Epstein. “He was, you know, a wholesome, warm-hearted type of guy.” Trump then suggested he might release mysterious Epstein “tapes,” with the implication that only Democrats would suffer.

Elon Musk, the far-right billionaire who has spent at least $120 million this election cycle to help get Trump re-elected, also claimed that Democrats don’t want Trump to win because “check-ins” with Epstein could do it. be made public. However, Musk has his own ties to Epstein’s extended universe, as he was photographed next to Epstein’s accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell at a party, and Epstein even put Musk’s brother Kimball , with a girlfriend in order to get closer to the CEO of SpaceX. . Musk has also repeatedly suggested that his political enemies are afraid of a Trump victory because of Diddy’s sex trafficking accusations. Musk has his own ties to Diddy, as the musician was an investor in Musk’s 2022 purchase of Twitter and reportedly called him a “friend.”

But even those who don’t like Trump will likely take Wolff’s latest claims with a grain of salt. The journalist has previously been accused of exaggerating and embellishing in his reporting, including in his 2018 book. fire and fury. And while his claims in the new episode of the podcast seem plausible, he has not released the 100 hours of Epstein tapes he claims to have.

At this point, Wolff has only shared a one minute excerpt of Epstein talking about how Trump played mind games with his staff to get them to work against each other. It’s vaguely interesting, but not really surprising in any respect.

It’s crazy. There are more than 100 hours of recordings of Epstein speaking about his relationship with Trump and describing the inner workings of the Trump White House. pic.twitter.com/jd9RSomITZ

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“I probably have a hundred hours of Epstein talking about the inner workings of the Trump White House and his deep, long-standing relationship with Donald Trump,” Wolff said on his podcast.

Well, we’d like to hear them, Mr. Wolff. Not that this will have any impact on the elections, which will take place in a few days, on November 5. At this point, everyone has pretty much decided whether they will vote for Trump or Harris. But it would still be nice to hear these tapes for the sake of the historical record.

Trump’s presidential campaign did not respond to emailed questions Friday. Gizmodo will update this article if we receive a response.