Megyn Kelly admitted the freshly released Jeffrey Epstein emails ‘don’t sound good’ for President Donald Trump as she remarked that he should have just released the files himself.
The conservative podcaster discussed the telling emails that were released by Democrats on the House of Oversight Committee Wednesday morning.
The damning messages revealed how often the dead financer mentioned Trump over a 15-year period and even showed Epstein claiming to have photos of the president with bikini-clad girls.
MAGA firebrand Kelly gave her take on the emails during the Megyn Kelly Show while talking to News Nation host Batya Ungar-Sargon.
‘I concede that they sound bad,’ the former Fox News host said of the emails, adding that the leak is ‘basically kind of a middle finger’ to the commander-in-chief.
‘They don’t sound good. If I were a Democrat, I could easily make some hay with these, which they will.’
She added: ‘But my overall take on this Batya is why didn’t Trump just release these? Just release them! Right?
‘Now he’s in the position of being singled out as the only one, allegedly, as opposed to one of a slew of names.
Megyn Kelly said the Jeffrey Epstein emails ‘don’t sound good’ and that she wishes Donald Trump had released the files himself
The emails were released by Democrats on the House of Oversight Committee Wednesday morning, showing Epstein speak of the president several times. (Pictured: Epstein and Trump in Palm Beach, Florida in 1997)
‘To me this a self-inflicted wound by the Trump administration and it was unnecessary,’ the media personality continued.
In one correspondence, Epstein, who died by suicide in August 2019 in his cell at New York City’s Metropolitan Correctional Center, plotted with author Michael Wolff to ‘let Donald Trump hang himself’ at the height of the 2016 presidential campaign, according to the explosive new email dump.
Then in a December 2015 exchange, Epstein told New York Times journalist Thomas Landon Jr that he had photos of Trump with bikini-clad girls in his kitchen.
‘Would you like photos of Donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen?’ Epstein asked the journalist in an email.
In a follow-up exchange with the reporter, Epstein claimed Trump almost walked through a glass door because he was distracted by young women.
‘Have them ask my houseman about Donald almost walking through the door leaving his nose print on the glass as young women were swimming in the pool,’ Epstein wrote to Landon in December 2015.
‘He was so focused he walked straight into the door.’
The emails also showed that the late pedophile referred to Trump in correspondence with his right-hand woman Ghislaine Maxwell and the author Michael Wolff over a period of at least eight years.
Wolff recorded over a hundred hours of conversation with Epstein from roughly 2014 to 2019 and described their contact as a working relationship for several major book projects, including Fire and Fury – an account of the first Trump administration.
Michael Wolff emailed Epstein with the subject line ‘heads up’ on December 15, 2015 – the day of a Republican primary debate televised by CNN
Epstein discussed his connection to Trump with New York Times Financial Reporter Landon Thomas on December 8, 2015
The author emailed Epstein with the subject line ‘heads up’ on December 15, 2015 – the day of a Republican primary debate televised by CNN.
‘I hear CNN planning to ask Trump tonight about his relationship with you – either on air or in scrum afterwards,’ Wolff told the billionaire financier.
Epstein asked Wolff if he should help prepare an answer for the then-presidential candidate, but the author advised him that he should allow Trump to answer himself because his response could yield political capital.
‘If we were able to craft an answer for him, what do you think it should be?’ Epstein asked.
Wolff responded, ‘I think you should let him hang himself. If he says he hasn’t been on the plane or to the house, then that gives you a valuable PR and political currency.
‘You can hang him in a way that potentially generates a positive benefit for you, or, if it really looks like he could win, you could save him, generating a debt.
‘Of course, it is possible that, when asked, he’ll say Jeffrey is a great guy and has gotten a raw deal and is a victim of political correctness, which is to be outlawed in a Trump regime.’
In another email between Epstein and Wolff in January 2019, the convicted sex offender referred to his expulsion from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club.
Michael Wolff recorded over a hundred hours of conversation with Epstein from roughly 2014 to 2019, and described their contact as a working relationship for several major book projects, including Fire and Fury – an account of the first Trump administration
‘Trump said he asked me to resign,’ Epstein wrote, adding, ‘never a member ever. . of course he knew about the girls as he asked to Ghislaine to stop.’
The President revealed new details about his split from Epstein in July, saying he banned the financier from Mar-a-Lago for poaching spa employees, including Virginia Giuffre.
Speaking aboard Air Force One during a trip to Scotland, Trump said Epstein twice hired away workers despite being warned, prompting him to declare Epstein ‘persona non grata.’
The Daily Mail approached Wolf and Kelly for comment.
Following the leak, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson finally permitted a vote next week to force Trump’s Department of Justice to release all of the infamous ‘Epstein files.’
After a discharge petition to release the files attracted 218 signatures in the U.S. House of Representatives Wednesday, Johnson told reporters on Capitol Hill that ‘we’re going to put that on the floor for a full vote when we get back next week’.
The move comes after MAGA House Republicans – including Reps. Lauren Boebert (Colo.), Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga.), and Nancy Mace (S.C.) – went rogue against Trump and signed the petition.
A mass of Republican defectors are expected to join them and vote on the Epstein file disclosure bill. The vote will be earlier than expected, as the previous estimation for a vote on the bill could have put it as far back as December.
Congress is set to vote next week on forcing Donald Trump’s Justice Department to release the Epstein files, House Speaker Mike Johnson announced Wednesday evening. (Pictured: Trump, Melania, Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell seen together in February 2000)
In a recent interview with attorney Todd Blanche, Maxwell reiterated that Trump ‘did nothing wrong’ and was never involved in Epstein’s criminal activities.
The context of the exchanges is not clear. Around three years earlier, Epstein was jailed in Florida after pleading guilty to solicitation of prostitution with a minor.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt called the email dump a politically-motivated ‘smear’ campaign and repeated Giuffre’s former statements about Trump in which she absolved him of any wrongdoing.
‘The Democrats selectively leaked emails to the liberal media to create a fake narrative to smear President Trump,’ Leavitt said in a statement.
