'Is that a hint?' Epstein helped top Trump advisor attack Brett Kavanaugh's accuser

Footage of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein at a party at Mar-a-Lago in the 1990s (Image: Screengrab via NBC News)

One of the emails from convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein recently released by the House Oversight Committee reportedly shows correspondence with Steve Bannon — one of President Donald Trump's longtime advisors — about getting Trump's embattled second Supreme Court nominee through a major controversy.

On Wednesday, journalist Sean Morrow of More Perfect Union posted a September 2018 email exchange between Epstein and Bannon, in which the two are seen discussing a potential line of attack on Dr. Christine Blasey Ford. According to the emails, Epstein suggested that then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's attorneys press Ford — who accused Kavanaugh of assaulting her at a high school party — on medications she may have been using that can sometimes cause memory loss.

"I delayed my trip a day. So I'm still around," Epstein wrote from a personal gmail account. "Tell [Kavanaugh attorney Bill Burck] they should make sure they ask Ford about her medications, what type and for how long. My guess is that [Ford lawyer Debra Katz] won't let her answer."

"Roger," Bannon responded.

Epstein then sent Bannon another email with a link to a 2015 Pharmacy Times article entitled "8 Medications That May Cause Memory Loss." Bannon wrote back: "Is this a hint," with Epstein replying: "Duh."

The convicted child predator then sent Bannon a link to a 2017 University of São Paulo study entitled "false memories in social anxiety disorder," followed by another correspondence that read: "She couldn't recall if the lie detector was given the same day as her mother's funeral or the next day? MEDS."

"Oh I get it now," Bannon wrote back.

Even though Bannon was no longer Trump's White House chief strategist after August of 2017, the Washington Post reported several months after his firing that Bannon and Trump regularly kept in touch in regular phone calls that Trump himself usually initiated. Bannon still called Trump "sir" even though he was no longer an administration employee, according to the Post.

Morrow wrote that while the email address Epstein had been corresponding with was redacted, he determined the recipient was Bannon, as previous exchanges with that recipient mentioned that they had been on comedian Bill Maher's show. Morrow reported that he verified that Bannon was indeed a guest on Maher's program on the night in question.

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