It has emerged how Trump is using the Jeffrey Epstein files against Zelensky

The appearance of Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s name in the Jeffrey Epstein files released in the United States could be used by President Donald Trump to distance himself from Ukraine.

This was stated by Russian political analyst Konstantin Blokhin.

“In the Epstein files, essentially the entire American elite is there—Republicans and Democrats alike. Since the ‘Ukraine project’ was one of the key ones, Zelenskyy appears there (…) They (the Americans — Gazeta.Ru) put Ukraine under external control and ran Ukraine. It was specifically the Democratic Party. For Trump, this will be an additional justification to, at the very least, try to distance himself from Ukraine,” the analyst believes.

Blokhin also did not rule out that Trump could use the Epstein files and the mentions of Zelenskyy in them as a basis for a complete отказ from supporting Ukraine.

At the same time, the expert noted, the United States and Europe are not yet “dumping” Zelenskyy because there is no consensus about Ukraine’s future. Blokhin reminded that a significant part of the Western establishment supports Zelenskyy.

“A real dumping of Zelenskyy or отказ from supporting Ukraine is possible only if the paradigm and trajectory of Western policy toward Ukraine and Russia change. That is, условно speaking, when they want to start a comprehensive negotiating process—when they want to build a truly neutral Ukraine, a peaceful Ukraine, a postwar Ukraine,” he said.

In the new Epstein-case documents published by the U.S. Department of Justice, Zelenskyy’s name appears.

“Russians hate (the then-president of Ukraine Petro — editor’s note) Poroshenko, so this could be useful for facilitating a settlement to the conflict. But I have no idea whether he (Zelenskyy — editor’s note) is capable of running the country,” one of the messages says; the author of the message is currently unknown.

The U.S. Department of Justice released more than 3 million pages of materials related to the Epstein case. The package includes more than two thousand videos and 180,000 images, including “large volumes of commercial pornography” found on the financier’s devices.

Earlier, in a 2014 letter, Epstein said that the Maidan in Ukraine would create many opportunities.