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Jeffrey Epstein cast himself as a political insider after President Donald Trump’s first election, newly released House Oversight emails show, offering foreign leaders “insight” into the new president and boasting that he’d already briefed a top Russian diplomat on how to handle him.

The trove of emails, made public this week by the House Oversight Committee, spans 2016 to 2018 and reveals Epstein trying to re-establish himself on the world stage by courting heads of state, billionaires and diplomats.

The convicted sex offender, who died in federal custody in 2019, positioned himself as a man with rare access and understanding of Trump, offering his analysis to global figures eager to make sense of the new administration.

In one 2018 exchange

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