Jeffrey Epstein Reportedly Claimed Donald Trump Only Ran for President So He Could Misbehave With 'Impunity'

Jeffrey Epstein claimed Trump saw the White House as a new platform for his fading television career — and as a place where he could pursue women with the kind of 'impunity' he associated with former US presidents (Credit: The White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

Donald Trump's decision to run for president in 2015 was reportedly driven by more than political ambition. According to biographer Michael Wolff, Jeffrey Epstein claimed Trump saw the White House as a new platform for his fading television career — and as a place where he could pursue women with the kind of 'impunity' he associated with presidents John F Kennedy and Bill Clinton.

Epstein believed that Trump had little interest in ever being president at all and was using his campaign as a way to nurture relevance and fame.
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