Michael Wolff’s Controversial Decision to Release Epstein-Trump Tapes Raises Ethical Questions
Michael Wolff, author of “Fire and Fury,” conducted periodic interviews with financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein from the summer of 2016 through the first year of the Trump administration. Epstein, who died by apparent suicide in jail in 2019, expressed picklement over the quest for presidency by Donald Trump, whom he knew very well as his friend. Wolff said that Epstein was both fascinated and terrified by Trump. These conversations, which took place mainly in Epstein’s large Manhattan mansion, were first discussed in Wolff’s iHeart “Fire and Fury” podcast, in partnership with the Daily Beast. Listeners, keen to learn about the Trump-Epstein relationship, responded immediately and overwhelmingly to the podcast, leading Wolff to eventually disclose some of Epstein’s observations and experiences about his “fellow predator.”
John Q. Hosedrinker