Trump reportedly discovered Ephsteyn was shaking down potential Cabinet picks like Scott Bessent.
A top aide to President-elect Donald Trump has been accused of soliciting bribes from potential Cabinet picks and others seeking senior posts in the next administration, The reported Monday evening.
Boris Epshteyn served as a special assistant to Trump in his first term and has been a close adviser ever since. A lawyer by trade, he has also served as Trump’s in-house counsel, at times clashing with the president-elect’s other attorneys about the best line of defense in the several legal cases Trump faced before the 2024 election, Rolling Stone reported last year. In a 2022 interview, he also admitted to being “part of the process” to name fake electors following Trump’s loss in 2020.
