trump was never a client of jeffrey epstein. they knew each other socially because epstein bought a house 2 miles from mar a lago and they were socially friendly. they both also owned property in NY and FL, so there was travel overlap. trump's statement that he cut off epstein in 2007 seems to be fairly strongly confirmed by these emails, specifically when he says trump asked him to resign but he was never a member, and that he specifically asked ghislaine to stop doing something, presumably trying to find underage prostitutes at his clubs.
this is from correspondence from epstein to michael wolff, author of Fire & Fury (2016), in 2019. michael wolff was one of trump's biggest critics even before the proven-false steele dossier, and was willing to interact directly with a pedophile he KNEW was a pedophile and keep it silent because he might be able to take down trump, or blackmail him. this is quite literally exactly what the emails portray. a plot to blackmail a man they did not at that time have blackmail material on, which is why they then mention HINTING that epstein has a tape on trump.
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they weren't friends. epstein wanted to bring him down, openly, alongside someone unnamed in the email.