"In one exchange, Summers shares snippets from a 2017 trip to Saudi Arabia, including a quip that the "general view" among Saudi officials was that "Donald is a clown, increasingly dangerous on foreign policy."

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"In one 2018 exchange, Epstein asks PayPal founder Peter Thiel " an ally of Vice President JD Vance " if he was enjoying Los Angeles. Epstein also complimented Thiel on his "trump exaggerations, not lies."

"Can't complain thus far ... ," Thiel answered, to which Epstein replied, "Dec visit me Caribbean."

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"I think you might suggest to putin that lavrov can get insight on talking to me," Epstein wrote in an email to Thorbjorn Jagland, a former prime minister of Norway who was leading the Council of Europe at the time.

During the exchange, Epstein said he had already spoken with Vitaly Churkin, Russia's ambassador to the United Nations, about Trump before Churkin died in 2017.

"Churkin was great," Epstein wrote. "He understood trump after our conversations. it is not complex. he must be seen to get something its that simple."