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20. Here is the exchange with the reporter, as reported by the Daily Beast....

Fri Nov 14, 2025, 04:53 PM

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.... The Daily Beast is particularly interested in the exchange, because they were discussing a Daily Beast op-ed about how TSF was approaching a psychiatric breakdown. The op-ed drew on mental health experts who said Trump displayed signs of mania and posed an “imminent danger” to the public.

In the March 24, 2018, exchange with then–New York Times reporter Landon Thomas Jr. that included a link to the piece, Thomas told Epstein that Trump, now 79, was “scaring the s--t” out of him and warned the president “could well tank [the] global economy,” urging Epstein to try to speak to him.

Hours later, Epstein replied: “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.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epstein-warned-donald-trump-was-evil-beyond-belief-and-mad-after-mental-health-scrutiny/

So how is this news that the New York Times should have rushed into print? Some guy says TSF is "evil" is news? I think we all know plenty of people who think and say TSF is evil - one more guy saying it in an email isn't breaking news. In fact, it isn't even really news now. It's getting published just as an adjunct to all the other emails that have been released, and because every news outlet, right now, has to publish something from the emails.

I don't see how this indicates anything remise on the part of the reporter, the NYT, or the "legacy media".

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