Epsteins Attempt to Connect with Lavrov About Trump Revealed in Emails

The late American financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein sought to communicate with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov regarding U.S. President Donald Trump just weeks before Trump’s inaugural meeting with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki in 2018, as reported by Politico on Wednesday, referencing newly disclosed emails.

These communications were part of a larger batch released by congressional investigators this week, which reveal the depth of Epstein’s global connections. The emails, made public following a Democratic subpoena related to Epstein’s estate, span several years and detail interactions with Russian officials and associates of Trump.

In an email dated June 24, 2018, to former Norwegian Prime Minister and then-Council of Europe President Thorbjørn Jagland, Epstein suggested facilitating a meeting with Lavrov.

«I believe you could propose to Putin that Lavrov could gain insights from our conversation,» the email stated, sent almost a month before Trump’s meeting with Putin in Helsinki.

Jagland responded that he would be meeting with Lavrov’s assistant the next day and could suggest a connection to Epstein. It’s unclear if any actual communication took place between Epstein and Lavrov.

Epstein also mentioned earlier conversations with the late Russian UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin, who passed away in 2017, which he claimed provided him with insights about Trump.

“Churkin was excellent,” Epstein reportedly stated. “He grasped Trump’s perspectives after our talks. It’s straightforward; he needs to be perceived as gaining something—it’s as simple as that.”

A day after the Helsinki summit in July 2018, Epstein expressed discontent regarding Trump’s handling of relations with Putin in an email to former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers. He seemed to refer to Trump’s public praise for Putin while accepting the Russian leader’s assertion that Moscow had not interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

Epstein was apprehended in July 2019 on federal charges of sex trafficking and took his own life in a Manhattan jail cell the following month while awaiting trial.

Requests for comment from Russia’s Embassy in Washington and Jagland went unanswered. It remains uncertain if Lavrov was ever approached for his views.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt stated on Wednesday that the extensive emails «prove absolutely nothing other than that President Trump acted appropriately.» Trump, posting on Truth Social, accused the Democrats of “trying to resurrect the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax again” as a distraction from the party’s management of the recent U.S. government shutdown.