The so-called Epstein case remains in the spotlight. The sexual abuse plot that surrounds the former financial magnate Jeffrey Epstein splashes, after the publication of a series of emails, the former strongman of Donald Trump in the White House, Steve Bannon.
The former Chief of Strategy of the American president appears in the mails of the case. According to the publication BBC, Bannon He was in the United Kingdom preparing a speech at the Oxford Union, a private debating society.
The event was interrupted by hundreds of protesters, and Bannon, who was scheduled to take a flight that same night, wrote to Epstein by email: “The protesters slowed down the speech, I don’t think I can make the flight on time, we are on the way to Heathrow.”
The former financial tycoon responded: “Yes. There is a Gulf Air flight leaving at 9:50 with a stopover in Bahrain.” Bannon replied: “You are an amazing assistant”. These messages were revealed last Wednesday, along with another 20,000 other documents, belonging to Epstein.
The House Oversight Committee post includes an iMessage conversation in which the name of Bannon appears censoredas maintained by the BBC.
Epstein mentions in the conversation the possibility of chartering a plane from Scotland for the user whose identity has been redacted, and praises his “Oxford speech.” Trump’s former Chief Strategy Officer participated in the News Xchange conference, held in Edinburghthe Scottish capital, on November 14 and gave the speech at the Oxford Union two days later.
Unlike Epstein, Bannon is not charged of any crime.
“Well served”
Steve Bannon He was one of the most important people in the Trump Administration. One of the men closest to the president of USA. He was a determining figure in the final stretch of the 2016 elections, with the first term of the current leader of the White House. But later in August 2017, he resigned from his position.
own Bannon has admitted that he was recording a documentary about Epstein before his death, a tape of more than 15 hours of recording. In an episode of his podcastBannon maintained that “we are going to release the film” in early 2026.
The relationship between Bannon y Epstein It took more shape. A few days earlier, when Epstein appeared to have arranged a trip for Bannon, the ex-con said to him: “How does it feel to have the highest-paid travel agent in history?”
Bannon thanked him for his words, again, with a “you are a good assistant”to which Epstein snapped: “Massages not included.”
between the magnum sea of information from those emails, in another message, Epstein spoke of a trip to “AD”—presumably referring to Abu Dhabi—and told Bannon: “I’ll make sure you’re well taken care of.”.
Brexit talks
The messages revealed during this week also reveal the conversations between Bannon y Epstein speaking about British politics in 2018.
On the same day that Bannon spoke at the Oxford Union, the former chief strategy officer of Trump sent a message to Epstein: “This morning I found myself involved in the issue of Brexit with Nigel, Boris y Rees-Mogg“.
Later, in what BBC considered a “reference” to the prime minister at the time, Theresa May, the message added: “Boris, Gove, Rees-Mogg, David Davis…someone has to step up.”
May She was ousted from the British executive in May 2019, after surviving two no-confidence motions in December 2018.
A spokesperson for the Reform UK party, the political party that advocated for Brexit, stated that: “Nigel Farage has never met Steve BannonJacob Rees-Mogg y Boris Johnson”.
Now the ball is in the Capitol’s court. The US House of Representatives will vote next week on whether the Justice Department should release all files related to its investigation into Epstein, who died in prison in 2019.
Splash to Trump
The president of the Oval Office is not exempt from the controversy that surrounds the Epstein case. Although He was friends with Epstein for yearsTrump has stated that they grew apart in the early 2000s, two years before the financier’s first arrest.
The White House accused the Democratic Party on Wednesday of feeding a “false narrative” by electing three emails taken out of context just to involve the president.
For this reason, the Republicans decided to release within a few hours up to 20,000 sheets of documents related to the case, in which there is hardly any mention of Trump or any reference is based on personal impressions and not on definitive evidence.
However, Democratic lawmakers maintain that the three leaked emails raised new questions about the relationship between Epstein and Trump.
In the first of them, dated 2011 and sent to Ghislaine Maxwellaccomplice and partner of the sexual criminal, Epstein describes Trump as “dog that doesn’t bark” and claims that he spent “hours” at his home with one of the alleged victims of sex trafficking, whose name appears redacted in the published documents.
Another email, sent in 2015, illustrates a conversation between Epstein and the author and journalist Michael Wolffwhere the pedophile pondered how to respond to media questions about their relationship, given that Trump was beginning to emerge as a national political figure.
In this email about an upcoming interview Trump in the chain CNNWolff advises letting the now president incriminate himself by denying any relationship with the New York financier.
“I think you should let he just puts the rope around his neck. If he says he wasn’t on the plane or in the house, that gives you a valuable political and public relations advantage. “You can sink it in a way that potentially benefits you, or, if it really looks like it could win, you could save it, generating debt,” Wolff wrote.
The third email is dated 2019. In it, Epstein tells Wolff: “Trump said he asked me to resign,” apparently referring to his membership in the president’s Mar-a-Lago club, adding, “I was never a member.”