In a bold move, Donald Trump has announced intentions to take legal action against the estate of Jeffrey Epstein and author Michael Wolff, accusing them of plotting to undermine his political career.

Emails have surfaced revealing that Wolff, who served as Epstein’s unofficial adviser before the 2016 U.S. presidential election, appeared to collaborate with the late financier in efforts to derail Trump’s campaign.

One of the emails from Wolff to Epstein suggested that he could be the “bullet” to end Trump’s White House aspirations. In another, Wolff advised Epstein to allow Trump to “hang himself” during television interviews discussing their association.

While speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One en route to Florida on Saturday night, Trump expressed his determination to retaliate with a lawsuit.

“Wolff, who I consider a third-rate writer, was plotting with Jeffrey Epstein to damage me politically or otherwise, and that was made abundantly clear,” Trump stated.

He further mentioned, “So we’ll probably pursue legal action against Wolff… Maybe even against the Epstein estate. I’m not sure yet. But we will definitely sue Wolff.”

Trump, 79, also claimed that the latest Epstein file dump absolves him of his links to the convicted pedophile – though he did not give a rationale for this. 

‘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.

Donald Trump has threatened to sue Jeffrey Epstein’s estate, and his friend-turned-nemesis Michael Wolff, for allegedly trying to destroy his political career

Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump at the Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, in 1997

Trump is mentioned more than 3,000 times in the latest Epstein file release. 

The Department of Justice (DOJ) said inclusion does not suggest any wrongdoing, adding that some documents contained false claims against the president. 

Trump has denied any wrongdoing and has not been accused of any crimes linked to Epstein.

Emails released by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee in November show that Epstein referred to Trump in correspondence with Ghislaine Maxwell and Wolff over a period of at least eight years.

Wolff described his contact with Epstein as a working relationship for several book projects, including Fire and Fury, his account of the first Trump administration. 

He said he recorded more than 100 hours of conversation with Epstein between 2014 and 2019 as research for this. The two also corresponded by email.  

The author emailed Epstein with the subject line ‘heads up’ on December 15, 2015 – the day of a Republican primary debate televised by CNN. 

‘I hear CNN planning to ask Trump tonight about his relationship with you – either on air or in scrum afterwards,’ Wolff told the billionaire financier.

Michael Wolff recorded over a hundred hours of conversation with Epstein from roughly 2014 to 2019, and described their contact as a working relationship for several major book projects, including Fire and Fury – an account of the first Trump administration

Michael Wolff emailed Epstein with the subject line ‘heads up’ on December 15, 2015 – the day of a Republican primary debate televised by CNN 

Epstein asked Wolff whether he should help prepare an answer for the then-presidential candidate, but the author advised the billionaire financier that he should allow Trump to answer himself because his response could yield political capital.

‘If we were able to craft an answer for him, what do you think it should be?’ Epstein asked.

Wolff responded, ‘I think you should let him hang himself. If he says he hasn’t been on the plane or to the house, then that gives you a valuable PR and political currency.

‘You can hang him in a way that potentially generates a positive benefit for you, or, if it really looks like he could win, you could save him, generating a debt.

‘Of course, it is possible that, when asked, he’ll say Jeffrey is a great guy and has gotten a raw deal and is a victim of political correctness, which is to be outlawed in a Trump regime.’

The Daily Mail has reached out to Wolff’s publishers for comment. 

It comes as the latest tranche of Epstein files dropped on Friday, which included details of Bill Gates talking to the pedophile about contracting an STD, and disturbing photographs of the UK’s former Prince Andrew with a young woman. 

Gates contracted a sexually-transmitted disease and asked for antibiotics to slip to his then-wife Melinda, the files allege. 

A new photo showing Bill Gates and Jeffrey Epstein with friends was released on Friday 

 

Epstein made the astonishing claim about the Microsoft billionaire in emails he sent to himself on July 18, 2013, after their relationship deteriorated. 

The lengthy message lashed out at Gates for ending their friendship and says: ‘TO add insult to the injury you them (sic) implore me to please delete the emails regarding your std, your request that I provide you antibiotics that you can surreptitiously give to Melinda and the description of your penis.’ 

Earlier in the same missive, Epstein said he had been ‘dismayed beyond comprehension’ by Gates’s decision to ‘disregard our friendship developed over the last six years’.

The shocking emails appear to be drafts of a letter intended to be sent by Gates’s then-top advisor Boris Nikolic, around his resignation from the Microsoft billionaire’s charitable foundation.

Meanwhile, former Prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was pictured crouching on all fours over a female lying on the floor.

In the three photographs, a man believed to be Andrew can be seen leaning over the woman who is sprawled face up with their arms spread out.

He is staring directly at the camera in one picture, while in another he has placed his left hand on the female’s stomach.

The man, thought to be the former Duke of York, is barefoot and is wearing jeans and a white polo shirt, along with a silver watch.

Disturbing new images released as part of the lates Epstein files release appear to show Andrew Mountbatten Windsor crouching on all fours over a female lying on the floor

In the three images, a man who appears to be the former Prince, can be seen crouching over the person who is sprawled face up with their arms spread out

Another person can be seen in the photographs, sitting in a leopard-print chair with their feet up on a table.

Like much of the material released in the Epstein files, it is unclear when or where the images were taken and no further context is given. Last month, a photo of Andrew lying on the laps of five women at Sandringham was released in another batch of files.

More than three million more documents were published last night by the US Department of Justice. Deputy attorney general Todd Blanche said there have been ‘extensive redactions’ to the documents.

Redactions include information with personally identifiable details of victims, medical files, any depictions of child sexual abuse material, anything that would jeopardize an active investigation, or anything depicting death or physical abuse.

Blanche added that they have blurred the faces of any women, other than sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, but have not redacted the faces of any men.