Elon Musk threatened to drop the evidence that Donald Trump fears most, according to one of the president's biographers.
The pair publicly split Thursday and quickly fell into a bitter feud online, and the tech billionaire escalated the conflict by posting that he would "drop the really big bomb" with evidence of Trump's involvement with the sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein – which author Michael Wolff told The Daily Beast Podcast worried the president tremendously.
That post “escalated into nuclear territory," said Wolff, who has written several books about Trump and his White House inner circle.
Trump and the disgraced financier were the “best of friends” for 15 years, according to Wolff, who claims to have more than 100 hours of recorded interviews with Epstein: “They shared girlfriends, they shared airplanes, [and] business strategy."
Wolff also claims to have seen damning evidence that Trump would not want to see the light of day, including alleged lewd images of him and the convicted sex trafficker, who hung himself in a New York City jail in 2019 while awaiting trial on additional charges.
“I have seen these pictures. I know that these pictures exist and I can describe them,” Wolff told the podcast. “There are about a dozen of them. The ones I specifically remember is the two of them with topless girls of an uncertain age sitting on Trump’s lap. And then Trump standing there with a stain on the front of his pants and three or four girls kind of bent over in laughter — they’re topless, too — pointing at Trump’s pants.”
Wolff said he isn't sure what evidence Musk might have, but he speculated the FBI may have gathered incriminating material, such as photos or documents, when agents raided the late financier's home before his suicide.
“But I think, in general, it could also be the Epstein file writ large,” Wolff said. “The scope of the Jeffrey Epstein life intersects with the Donald Trump life in a very meaningful, in fact, profound way. These guys kind of made each other.”
Trump has been photographed numerous times with Epstein, whom he described in a 2002 interview as a "terrific guy” and a “lot of fun to be with," but the two reportedly had a falling out a couple of years later over a real estate dispute, and the president has tried to distance himself from Epstein since entering politics several years ago.