In Newly Released Emails, Epstein Called Trump ‘Evil Beyond Belief’ and ‘Borderline Insane’
Private correspondence portrays a portrait of Donald J. Trump as mentally unstable, morally corrupt and on the verge of breakdown, according to the late financier’s own words.
In a series of newly released emails, Jeffrey Epstein described President Donald J. Trump as “evil beyond belief,” “borderline insane” and “f***ing crazy,” offering a rare, candid view of how the disgraced financier saw the future president in private.
Newly released emails written by Jeffrey Epstein between 2011 and January 2019 provide a rare, unfiltered record of how the disgraced financier privately described President Donald J. Trump as their relationship soured. Although the messages reflect only Epstein’s views—and do not independently confirm any of his allegations—they document a sustained pattern of increasingly severe personal criticism of the future president’s conduct, judgment, and stability. The most intense exchanges cluster between 2015 and 2018, when Trump’s public controversies and legal pressures were mounting.
From the earliest politically focused notes, Epstein characterizes Trump in abrasive terms. In a 2017 message written in the period surrounding the Trump administration’s travel-ban controversy, he told a correspondent: “that being said Donald is f------ crazy I told you that.” The remark aligns with other contemporaneous emails in which Epstein tracked Trump’s public actions closely, including his interactions with Russia and North Korea.
As the correspondence progresses, Epstein’s language becomes sharper and more alarmed. In a 2018 reply to a question about whether Trump might be nearing a psychiatric crisis, Epstein wrote: “he feels alone, and is nuts !!! , I told everyone from day one. evil beyond belief mad, and most thought i was speaking metaphorically, its obvious he could crack.” These phrases reflect Epstein’s own speculation about Trump’s psychological condition; they do not constitute clinical evidence or professional evaluation.
Moral condemnation also appears frequently. In one 2017 email, Epstein wrote: “I have met some very bad people. None as bad as Trump. Not one decent cell in his body.” In another exchange that year, after a correspondent wrote that Trump was “so gross,” Epstein replied: “Worse in real life and upclose.”
Epstein repeatedly framed his judgments as grounded in what he portrayed as insider knowledge, though the released materials contain no corroboration. Discussing the legal jeopardy surrounding Michael Cohen, he wrote: “You see , i know how dirty donald is. my guess is that non lawyers ny biz people have no idea. what it means to have your fixer flip.” In a separate message, he boasted—without elaboration—that he was “the one able to take him down.”
One of the most sensitive allegations appears in a January 31, 2019 email to author Michael Wolff. Responding to Trump’s later public claim that he had expelled Epstein from Mar-a-Lago, Epstein wrote: “trump said he asked me to resign, never a member ever. . of course he knew about the girls as he asked ghislaine to stop.” This assertion appears solely in Epstein’s words, and no independent evidence has confirmed his account.
Other messages capture Epstein warning that Trump’s power made him uniquely dangerous if mishandled by investigators. In an email to attorney Reid Weingarten, he wrote: “You might want to tell your dem friends that treating trump like a mafia don ignore the fact that he has great dangerous power. Tightening the noose too slowly risks a very bad situation. Gambino was never the commander in chief ... not so with this maniac.”
Across the available material, Epstein’s rhetoric shifts from blunt derision toward something closer to alarm. Early messages rely heavily on insults—“crazy,” “so gross,” “truly stupid”—while later ones describe Trump as “borderline insane,” a “maniac,” and someone who “could crack.” Whether this represents a true evolution in Epstein’s thinking or simply reflects the escalation of Trump-related scandals cannot be determined solely from the emails, but the chronological pattern is consistent with reporting on the cache.
Throughout the correspondence, Epstein followed Trump’s controversies closely, referencing the travel ban, the Stormy Daniels matter, Cohen’s cooperation, and what he described as “tightening the noose.” While these remarks show Epstein contextualizing his private judgments within real-time news events, they do not independently verify his conclusions.
None of the messages supply clinical documentation, corroborated testimony, or professionally supported diagnoses. Mental-health experts consistently warn against drawing conclusions from speculative commentary. Still, for historians and investigators reconstructing Trump’s social network and the private opinions circulating around him, the emails offer an unusually direct view of one former associate’s escalating alarm.
Epstein died in federal custody in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges. The newly released correspondence does not alter those legal outcomes, nor do they substantiate Epstein’s more sensational claims. What they capture—often in unpolished, irregular, and emotionally charged language—is Epstein’s depiction of a man he once knew socially as dishonest, volatile, and, in his repeated phrasing, “evil beyond belief mad.”
References
PEOPLE Magazine | Nov. 13, 2025 | “Jeffrey Epstein Called Donald Trump ‘Borderline Insane’ and Questioned If He Had ‘Early Dementia’ in Emails Before Death” | https://people.com/jeffrey-epstein-called-donald-trump-borderline-insane-emails-11848625
Yahoo News | Nov. 13, 2025 | “Here’s How Jeffrey Epstein Described ‘Evil’ Donald Trump in the Newly Released Documents” | https://news.yahoo.com/articles/heres-jeffrey-epstein-described-evil-154906372.html
Financial Times | Nov. 13, 2025 | “Jeffrey Epstein’s connections: ‘Life among the lucrative and louche’” | https://www.ft.com/content/b345abcb-c714-4857-8189-265ae39bff3a
The Guardian | Nov. 13, 2025 | “Epstein kept close eye on Trump even after friendship soured, newly released emails reveal” | https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/13/jeffrey-epstein-emails-trump
Al Jazeera | Nov. 13, 2025 | “New Epstein emails and files: What do they reveal about Trump?” | https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/13/new-epstein-emails-and-files-what-do-they-reveal-about-trump
The Daily Beast | Nov. 12/13, 2025 | “Emails Reveal Epstein Called Trump a ‘Maniac’ With ‘Early Dementia’” | https://www.thedailybeast.com/emails-reveal-epstein-called-trump-a-maniac-with-early-dementia/
PBS NewsHour | Nov. 12, 2025 | “Read Jeffrey Epstein’s newly released emails about Trump” | https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/read-jeffrey-epsteins-newly-released-emails-about-trump
NewsMax | Nov. 12, 2025 | “Trump Blasts Dems’ Epstein Email ‘Deflections’” | https://www.newsmax.com/politics/trump-emails-jeffrey-epstein/2025/11/12/id/1234293/
Yahoo News | Nov. 13, 2025 | “Jeffrey Epstein Thought Trump Was ‘Borderline Insane,’ Alan Dershowitz Was Nearly There: Email” | https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/jeffrey-epstein-thought-trump-borderline-113223278.html
Yep I'm a retired clinical mental health specialist, and while it's true that the APA governing body has instructed licensed clinicians not to diagnose at a distance, many of us have, in print, on vide and for the book Duty to Warn, published during Trump's first term. He is even more dangerous now that there is so much push back and the fear of imprisonment. Could he crack? You bet. He is as fragile as a rotten egg.
We all knew this in our hearts about trump. But it’s always nice to get confirmation.