A controversial writer who has published books about Donald Trump on Thursday repeated his contested claim that disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein used to keep pictures of Trump with young girls in his safe, and would display them like playing cards.
Officials in the Trump administration have denied the existence of these photos in recent hearings before Senate committees. But Michael Wolff, a journalist who has written four books about Trump, claimed on a recent episode of the podcast "Inside Trump's Head" that he is one of a few people in the world who have seen the photos.
"I am one of the people who has seen these pictures, and Jeffrey Epstein would take them out of his safe and kind of display on his dining room table, almost as you would [for] playing cards," Wolff alleged. "This amused him to have these pictures."
Wolff said the incident happened at Epstein's home, where he was a guest by the invitation of Trump. At the time, Trump had asked Wolff to write a book about him, Wolff said.
Epstein ended up getting up from the table and returning with "about a dozen polaroids," according to the story.
"Like a deck of cards, he displayed them on the table," Wolff claimed.
He noted that there are three of the purported photographs that still stand out in his mind today.
"I remember there are two in which topless young women and, I don't know the ages of these women, but they are young, and are sitting in Trump's lap," Wolff claimed. "This is outside of Jeffrey Epstein's house in Palm Beach, around the swimming pool."
He said that Trump was dressed in golf leisure attire in the two photos with topless women. The other photo seemed to be a bit more humiliating.
"In the third picture, [Trump is] wearing light pants," Wolff said, repeating a claim that has been denied by the White House in the past. "There is a tannish or a stain on the front of his trousers, and the girls...as I remember are pointing at the stain and laughing."
Wolff himself has also been the source of some controversy. High-profile people like Tony Blair and Sean Hannity have denied quotes published by Wolff in his books.
