US President Donald Trump's longtime biographer Michael Wolff said that the White House believes that Ghislaine Maxwell's family leaked Jeffrey Epstein's "birthday book" to the Wall Street Journal as a warning sign to Trump that she has damaging information against him.
According to Wolff, this prompted a response from the department of justice, which rushed to meet with Maxwell to determine what else she might have. It also sheds light on why Trump is reportedly considering a pardon for her.
"In the White House, they believe that the story in the Wall Street Journal about the birthday greeting that Donald Trump, the salacious birthday greeting, that Donald Trump sent Jeffrey Epstein in 2003 on the occasion of his 50th birthday, was a leak from the Maxwell family," Wolff revealed.
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