A former attorney who was part of the Watergate investigation of the Nixon administration says the biggest revelation still hidden in the Epstein files the DOJ is taking forever to release could be that Donald Trump was an FBI informant who cooperated with prosecutors when they were investigating the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
In an article he posted on Substack, Nick Ackerman explained that an email could be key to Trump’s involvement and possible culpability in crimes he committed with Epstein or was witness to.
“A key email from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate, in combination with statements by Trump ally House Speaker Mike Johnson, shows it is highly likely that Trump was a confidential FBI informant in the first sex trafficking investigation into Epstein and his partner in crime Ghislaine Maxwell.”
“The press has totally overlooked the significance of this email.”
“On April 2, 2011, Epstein emailed Maxwell the following about Donald Trump:
“i want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is trump—virginia— spent hours at my house with him ,, he has never once been mentioned. police chief. etc. im 75 % there”
Maxwell responded, “I have been thinking about that…”
Ackerman adds, “Let’s connect the dots to what else we now know. Epstein authored this email after the conclusion of the investigations by the State of Florida and the FBI into his conduct with underage girls, and after Epstein had served his overly lenient sentence. The second federal investigation had not yet begun, but victims began filing civil lawsuits against him, and Epstein was a registered sex offender.”
Oddly enough, another clue to Trump’s possibly being an FBI informant came from Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, Ackerman continues.
“What nails it is the September 5, 2025, statement by House Speaker Mike Johnson to reporters that what Epstein did was an ‘unspeakable evil’ and that Donald Trump ‘was an FBI informant to try to take this stuff down,’ referring to Epstein’s criminal activities,” Ackerman wrote. “Johnson said that he and Trump had ‘spoken about this many times’ ‘as recently as twenty-four hours ago.'”
“Within days, Johnson, who is in regular contact with Trump, backtracked from his statement without a coherent or valid explanation. His excuse was that he might not have used the ‘right word.’ Really!! Unsurprisingly, the White House denied that Trump was an FBI informant in the Epstein case, saying Johnson’s original description was not correct.”
What does that all mean? And what might have motivated Trump to cooperate with prosecutors?
“Clearly, Trump does not want it publicly known that he was an FBI informant. From my experience as a prosecutor, the principal way a person becomes a confidential informant is when the FBI uses a person’s involvement in criminal activity to turn the individual into an informant to avoid prosecution. In the case of Trump, that does not necessarily mean the criminal leverage was Trump’s involvement with Epstein’s sex trafficking. It could have been something else. If so, what did the FBI have on Trump? The big question — will future productions of DOJ’s Epstein files reveal Trump’s involvement as an FBI informant against Epstein? It certainly should.”
What did the FBI (and Trump) know, and when did they know it? And, will the Department of Justice ever reveal just how deep Trump’s connection to Epstein was? Did it include shared criminal activities? If so, the American people have a right to know.
