Top Goldman Sachs lawyer asked Jeffrey Epstein for career advice, bashed Trump, private emails show [View all]

Source: Business Insider

Nov 13, 2025, 7:34 PM ET


When high-powered Democratic attorney Kathryn Ruemmler — now the top lawyer at Goldman Sachs — needed to vent about Donald Trump's rise in politics, she turned to their mutual acquaintance, Jeffrey Epstein.

"Trump is living proof of the adage that it is better to be lucky than smart," she told Epstein in an email in August 2015, while planning a visit to his Manhattan mansion. Later, Ruemmler expressed alarm about Trump's climb in the polls. "The Trump success is seriously scary," she wrote in February 2016.

The two chatted frequently about the 2016 presidential election and transition. (In one email, Ruemmler seemed to criticize Trump's Cabinet picks as "moronic." ) They shared gripes well into Trump's first term, as well as news articles on everything from Trump's approach to Big Tech to the Mueller investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. "Trump is truly stupid," Ruemmler wrote in one 2017 email. "Trump is so gross," she said a few months earlier.

The emails, released by the House Oversight Committee this week, were exchanged during Trump's first term in office and before Ruemmler joined Goldman Sachs five years ago. Ruemmler has previously said she regrets her association with Epstein.

Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epstein-emails-donald-trump-kathryn-ruemmler-goldman-sachs-lawyer-2025-11

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A bunch of the banksters, including Goldman Sachs Chairman & CEO David Solomon, were just at the WH for dinner Wed. night - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143564092

This exchange happened about 3 years before he was named that at Goldman Sachs, but I expect she's toast now.