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Trump biographer claims Steve Bannon went to Epstein hunting 'dirt' on Trump

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When Steve Bannon wanted dirt on Donald Trump, biographer Michael Wolff says he knew where to send him: Jeffrey Epstein. "I introduced Steve Bannon to Jeffrey Epstein," the "Fire and Fury" author wrote in the latest installment of his paid Substack series, The Epstein Diaries , describing a late-2017 meeting that came months after Bannon was forced out of the White House and as Wolff was finishing the book that would roil the administration that January. Wolff has said he holds roughly 100 hours of taped interviews with Epstein and has publicly urged lawmakers to subpoena Bannon, calling him the person who knows the Trump-Epstein story "from the horse's mouth." Bannon, Wolff wrote, arrived with obsessions of money and a hatred of Trump. Having lost his billionaire Mercer family backing, Bannon was hunting for a new patron, and Wolff says Epstein's cash "might be as good as anybody's." But the deeper draw, by Wolff's telling, was the leverage. "But more compelling was the second: Bannon