Explosive new audio reveals that Donald Trump detailed how he really felt about his White House staff to Jeffrey Epstein, and Epstein touted old photos of Trump with half-naked women taken at the site of the pedophile’s rampant sexual abuse of young girls.

On author Michael Wolff’s Thursday episode of his podcast Fire and Fury, Wolff shared a recording of a conversation with Epstein from 2017, in which the convicted sex offender and alleged human trafficker recounted Trump’s true feelings about members of his administration, The Daily Beast reported.

“His people fight each other and then have outsiders—he sort of poisons the well outside,” Epstein told Wolff. Epstein went on to paraphrase Trump’s candid statements about his former strategist Steve Bannon, former chief of staff Reince Priebus, and counselor Kellyanne Conway.

“He will tell 10 people, ‘Bannon’s a scumbag’ and ‘Priebus is not doing a good job’ and ‘Kelly has a big mouth’—what do you think? ‘Jamie Dimon says that you’re a problem and I shouldn’t keep you. And I spoke to Carl Icahn. And Carl thinks I need a new spokesperson,’” Epstein said.

“‘So Kelly[anne]—even though I hired Kellyanne’s husband—Kellyanne is just too much of a wildcard.’ And then he tells Bannon, ‘You know I really want to keep you, but Kellyanne hates you,’” Epstein continued.

Wolff said that he had recordings of roughly “100 hours of Epstein talking about the inner workings of the Trump White House and about his long standing, deep relationship with Donald Trump

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    The thing I find hard to believe is that this guy has these recordings and waited until now. I’m not saying it’s not true, but this is messy removed shit and really convenient at a dramatic moment.

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      It’s another one of those journalists that decided to wait until his book was done. Bob Woodward did a ton of this as well, sitting on things that we should’ve been told in real time.

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      It’s a classic.

      You git some dirt? If you throw it out whenever, people might be caught up in other dramas or the person isn’t interesting enough (like Trump 2 years ago, who would have cared?), so you have to wait and publish for maximum exposure and damage.

      In france there is a whole slew of files concerning the extreme right, so when they get elected in say some small election or gets a pisition in the party, there’s always some rape allegations or heil-hitler photos coming forward…

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      Wolff has been like this for decades. He’s as craven as the rest of them. But he’s also very often right.

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      Reporting on anything related to Epstein is almost non-existent because of all the powerful people that are vulnerable.