-- Shares Facebook Twitter Reddit Email The notorious sex trafficker and financier Jeffrey Epstein once called Donald Trump his "closest friend." That reveal came on Saturday night when journalist Michael Wolff shared tapes of an interview he held with the late criminal via The Daily Beast . In the clips shared by Wolff, Epstein notes the way that Trump is able to charm people by telling them what they want to hear.

He also accused the former president of being a "horrible human being" who had affairs with his "best friends' wives." “He is charming; he is able to convince people. It’s very much like [Bill] Clinton.

Both Bill and Donald have the ability to go over to a fat, ugly woman, say, ‘You are the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen,’" he ssaid. So, he tells everybody what they want to hear. And that is charming.

” Epstein said that his "closest friend for 10 years" had a great mind for real estate, but was otherwise a complete dullard. “With respect to real estate deals, he’s brilliant," Epstein said. “Anything else but that, he knows nothing.

" Related "Twisted game": Woman says she was sexually assaulted after Jeffrey Epstein took her to Trump Tower The convicted sex offender who died in a Manhattan jail cell in 2019 had a low opinion of his former associate, feeling that he had "no scruples" and could not be trusted. “He does nasty things to his best friends, his best friends’ wives," Epstein shared. "Anyone who he first tries to gain their trust,.