In a March 24, 2018, email chain with Kathryn Ruemmler, a former White House counsel under President Barack Obama, Epstein shared a Daily Beast article titled, “How Close Is Donald Trump to a Psychiatric Breakdown?”
The exchange shows Epstein forwarding the story early that morning to Ruemmler, with her replying: “Not confidence inspiring.”
Epstein then responded: “but – accurate.”
A year earlier in July 2017, Ruemmler wrote an email to Epstein saying, “Trump is truly stupid.”
“Duh,” Epstein replied several hours later.
It is not clear why Ruemmler and Epstein were corresponding at the time.
But the Wall Street Journal reported in 2023 that a spokesperson for Goldman Sachs, where Ruemmler was then employed, said she had a professional relationship with Epstein in connection with her role at law firm Latham & Watkins LLP.
Ruemmler did not immediately respond to a CNN request for comment.
In December 2018, Epstein emailed Ruemmler about Trump’s behavior, writing:
“you might want to tell your dem friends that treating trump like a mafia don, ignores 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. there was little gambino could do as the walls closed in. not so with this maniac.”
That same day, Epstein forwarded the same comment to Reid Weingarten, an attorney who worked for him.
Weingarten replied that Trump was “starting to behave very erratically.”
Epstein wrote back: “borderline insane. and corroborated by some that are close.”
