{"id":5183,"date":"2026-08-10T19:05:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T19:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=5183"},"modified":"2026-08-10T19:05:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T19:05:02","slug":"trumps-twisted-reason-for-first-presidential-run-revealed-biographer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=5183","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Twisted Reason for First Presidential Run Revealed: Biographer"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>A bestselling author has revealed what he believes was the strongest force behind Donald Trump\u2019s first presidential bid.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=5182\">MAGA Nepo Candidate Brings Father-in-Law to TV Interview<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a new column for his Substack, Howl, Michael Wolff detailed Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s initial reaction when his former best friend, Donald Trump, descended a golden escalator to announce his bid for the White House in 2015.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>While Epstein, who died by suicide in 2019, and Trump had ended their friendship about a decade earlier, the man now known as America\u2019s most notorious pedophile still had a unique insight into the now-president\u2019s psyche.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cEpstein knew that Trump\u2019s star turn on <i>The Apprentice<\/i> was fading and that he urgently needed a new platform for the promotion of Donald Trump\u2014indeed, he could talk of little else, how to avoid television\u2019s fate: cancellation,\u201d Wolff wrote.<\/p>\n<p>According to the author, Epstein believed Trump had little interest in politics or being president at all. Instead, his presidential campaign was a way for him to nurture one of the things most important to him: his fame.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDonald has never spent a moment in which being seen was not his main goal,\u201d Wolff remembers Epstein telling him. \u201cMoney, sex, fame, it\u2019s in that order.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Epstein said it explained Trump\u2019s fascination with former President Bill Clinton and the late President John F. Kennedy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump is fascinated by Clinton,\u201d Epstein told Wolff. \u201cThat was what he was always trying to figure out\u2014how do you get laid when you\u2019re president? That\u2019s why he was obsessed with Kennedy, because JFK, even in the White House, was able to f&#8212; with impunity. Donald can\u2019t give up f&#8212;ing. Not possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was because of Trump\u2019s priorities that Epstein knew how dangerous he was, Wolff alleged.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=5181\">Jurors Stun Courtroom With Last-Minute Discovery as Trial Comes to a Close<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t understand, it\u2019s Donald Trump. No shame. Do you understand how powerful that is?\u201d Wolff remembers Epstein telling him.<\/p>\n<p>A White House spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment regarding Wolff\u2019s retelling.<\/p>\n<p>Wolff said that at first, he wasn\u2019t entirely sure how Epstein felt about his former friend. But it was during this time period, Wolff says, that the disgraced financier confided that he believed it was Trump who tipped off Palm Beach police about him, culminating in his arrest. Epstein ultimately landed a sweetheart plea deal in Florida in 2008, which allowed him to avoid serious federal charges despite extensive evidence that he had abused and trafficked underage girls.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes I thought it was just a comedic spectacle for him; Epstein, perhaps more than anyone, got the Trump joke,\u201d Wolff wrote. \u201cBut other times you couldn\u2019t miss the current of pure hatred.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump, for his part, has insisted that he and Epstein were never close friends. He has asserted that he distanced himself from the late financier after Epstein was placed on the sex offender registry in 2008, shortly after he pleaded guilty to a charge of solicitation of prostitution with a minor.<\/p>\n<p>Still, in the same way that Trump haunted Epstein in the final years of his life, the pedophile has been a dark shadow looming over the president\u2019s second term.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cI said [to Epstein], wholly oblivious to the foreshadowing: \u201cYou\u2019re in the crosshairs of history,\u201d Wolff wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=5180\">CNN Data Guru Reveals \u2018Red Lights Flashing\u2019 for Top Trump Goon<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bestselling author has revealed what he believes was the strongest force behind Donald Trump\u2019s first presidential bid. Read more MAGA Nepo Candidate Brings Father-in-Law to TV Interview In a new column for his Substack, Howl, Michael Wolff detailed Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s initial reaction when his former best friend, Donald Trump, descended a golden escalator to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Trump\u2019s Twisted Reason for First Presidential Run Revealed: Biographer - Nationwide Inter State Movers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=5183\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Trump\u2019s Twisted Reason for First Presidential Run Revealed: Biographer - Nationwide Inter State Movers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A bestselling author has revealed what he believes was the strongest force behind Donald Trump\u2019s first presidential bid. 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