President Donald Trump said he will likely file a lawsuit against author Michael Wolff, accusing him of conspiring with the late Jeffrey Epstein to damage Trump's political career.
Trump made the comments to reporters aboard Air Force One on Saturday following Friday's latest dump of Epstein files.
Epstein asked Ken Starr in 2018 to help Wolff push an indictment of a "sitting pres," according to the newly released files.
"Well they should be, because it looked like this guy Wolff, who's a writer, was conspiring with Epstein to do harm to me," Trump said.
"I didn't see it myself, but I was told by some very important people that not only does it absolve me; it's the opposite of what people were hoping — you know, the radical left," he said.
Trump added, "Wolff, who's a third-rate writer, was conspiring with Jeffrey Epstein to hurt me politically or otherwise, and that came through loud and clear. So we'll probably sue Wolff on that."
Trump later said he would "certainly" sue Wolff and suggested he could also pursue legal action against the Epstein estate.
"That's not a friend," Trump said about Epstein plotting with Wolff. Epstein died in 2019.
A message from Wolff to Epstein dated 2016 and released last November shows Wolff telling Epstein he could "help finish" Trump by releasing damaging information on the eve of the presidential election.
Wolff referred to Epstein as "the Trump bullet" in a February 2016 email, suggesting Epstein could end Trump's presidential bid.
Additional emails from 2015, released at the same time, show Wolff discussing strategy with Epstein.
In one message, Wolff wrote that if Trump denied being on Epstein's plane or at his home, it would give Epstein "valuable PR and political currency."
"I hear CNN planning to ask Trump tonight about his relationship with you — either on air or in scrum afterwards," Wolff wrote to Epstein in December 2015.
"I think you should let him hang himself," he added in a follow-up the next day.
Wolff wrote an unauthorized biography of Trump in 2018 titled "Fire and Fury" about the inner workings of Trump's first administration.
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