Donald Trump Privately is Feeling "Cornered" Over Epstein Files as he Enters Lame-Duck Era

Good evening, everyone. Tonight, the atmosphere inside the White House is one of genuine alarm. Donald Trump is growing increasingly panicked and cornered by the fallout from the Epstein files. While that chaos unfolds behind closed doors, I’ve received an exclusive letter from Epstein survivors addressed directly to Marjorie Taylor Greene—powerful, emotional, and impossible for her to ignore. And as I continue combing through the thousands of emails and documents, I’ve uncovered even more critical files that the public deserves to see.

Meanwhile, the pushback online has intensified. Allies of the administration—some inside the White House—are furious at my reporting. They’ve told me to stop, accused me of lying, and tried to intimidate me into silence. Let me be perfectly clear: I will not stop. The truth is too important, and the stakes are too high.

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Michael Wolff says Trump is “completely freaking out” and visibly cornered over the release of thousands of newly exposed Jeffrey Epstein emails, with the White House in chaos, unsure how to manage revelations including Epstein’s claims that Trump “knew about the girls” and that he could “take Trump down.”

This comes as Trump has become a lame-duck President with Republicans on Capitol Hill increasingly likely to rebuke him, both privately and publicly.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene says she’s receiving safety warnings and threats after President Trump publicly attacked her, withdrew his endorsement, and suggested backing a primary challenger—escalating a rift fueled by her recent criticisms of his agenda and her push to release Epstein-related files.

Several survivors of Jeffrey Epstein release new letter directed at Marjorie Taylor Greene, expressing their support for her as Donald Trump and those around him publicly attack her.

On Christmas 2016, just weeks before Trump’s inauguration, Epstein wrote that he was “in Palm with all the Trump boys … fun.”

A 2017 Epstein travel note shows him coordinating plans with Larry Summers and two unnamed individuals, simply remarking that “Trump is in town that week.”

In February 2018, Epstein told Emirati businessman Sultan Bin Sulayem he had become friends with Steve Bannon and claimed reports that Trump disliked him were untrue.

The Justice Department quietly replaced several Nov. 7 pardons after observers noticed they featured identical copies of Trump’s signature, prompting questions about autopen use; officials blamed a “technical error,” insisted Trump personally signed all pardons, and defended their validity amid renewed political clashes over presidential signatures and clemency practices.

A detailed report from the Atlantic describes how Trump’s attempt to project strength backfired after two Oval Office moments went viral: he stood apart and appeared disengaged as officials rushed to help a person who fainted, and earlier was seen repeatedly nodding off for nearly 20 minutes during remarks—imagery that critics say reinforces growing concerns about his energy, attentiveness, and overall presidential command.

A ProPublica investigation reveals that a heavily televised, militarized Chicago immigration raid—ordered by DHS Secretary Kristi Noem as the flagship of “Operation Midway Blitz,” complete with a Black Hawk helicopter, flash-bang grenades, and 300 armed agents—resulted in zero criminal charges, despite DHS touting it as a major bust of Venezuelan “terrorists”; instead, terrified families, children, and even U.S. citizens were zip-tied, injured, or dragged from their homes

After high-level briefings and a major U.S. military buildup in the Caribbean, Trump signaled he has “sort of” made a decision on potential military action in Venezuela—reviewing options ranging from airstrikes to targeting drug routes as the USS Gerald R. Ford and 15,000 U.S. troops deploy—while Maduro warns intervention could ignite a Vietnam- or Gaza-like conflict and experts caution Trump risks a long, politically costly war.

Border Patrol launched arrest operations across Charlotte, prompting widespread fear as agents detained people in multiple neighborhoods, while local leaders emphasized that city police are not participating; migrant advocates distributed legal-rights cards, business owners reported families being separated, and officials warned the federal crackdown mirrors previous controversial raids in other U.S. cities.

Although food stamps resumed after the shutdown, millions are poised to lose SNAP permanently under the GOP’s new tax-and-spending law, which imposes stricter work requirements, shifts costs to states, and cuts eligibility for many legal immigrants—including refugees—creating the largest safety-net rollback in decades as food banks warn they cannot absorb the surge in need.

Sen. John Fetterman returned home and said he’s fully recovered after a fall caused by a dangerous cardiac episode, receiving 20 stitches for facial injuries; doctors say his pacemaker-defibrillator detected the issue but couldn’t prevent the split-second fall.

A New Yorker documentary reveals that Trump’s immediate shutdown and dismantling of USAID—ordered on Day 1 of his second term and enforced by Secretary Rubio and Elon Musk—has already caused an estimated 600,000 deaths, mostly children, by abruptly halting global health programs that once prevented HIV, TB, malaria, and childhood malnutrition deaths; with monitoring systems dismantled and supplies frozen, countries like Kenya are seeing soaring child mortality and collapsed health services, a stark example of what experts call “public man-made death,” whose full toll may not be known until UN data is released years from now.

Trump issued new pardons for two additional January 6 defendants — militia member Dan Wilson, whose Kentucky firearms convictions were not covered by his January mass pardon, and Suzanne Kaye, who threatened to shoot FBI agents — framing both actions as correcting “weaponization” by Biden’s DOJ, even as courts had ruled Wilson’s original pardon did not apply to his gun charges.

See you in the morning.

— Aaron