"Uncle Jeffrey" Sent Kathy Ruemmler More Emails Than Anyone on the Planet

  • What Happened: DOJ files reveal Kathy Ruemmler, Barack Obama's White House counsel, exchanged 11,265 emails with Jeffrey Epstein, more than any other contact in his entire network.
  • Why It Matters: Epstein called Ruemmler his "great defender," sent her luxury gifts, coordinated private jet pickups to his island, named her a backup executor of his will, and she was one of the first calls he made after his 2019 arrest. Obama has said nothing.
  • Bottom Line: The woman who sat at Barack Obama's right hand for years was Jeffrey Epstein's most frequent contact on earth. That is not a coincidence. That is a question.

Kathy Ruemmler was not just friendly with Jeffrey Epstein. She was his number one.

DOJ files released earlier this year include a stunning breakdown of Epstein's email network. At the very top of the list, above every billionaire, every politician, every fixer and financier in his global orbit, sits one name: Kathryn Ruemmler, former White House counsel to Barack Obama. 11,265 emails. More than Larry Summers. More than Bill Gates. More than Noam Chomsky. More than Steve Bannon. More than anyone.

The emails tell the story in their own words. Epstein called her "my great defender." She called him "Uncle Jeffrey" and said she adored him "like an older brother." He sent her a Hermes bag. He coordinated private jets to pick her up for island trips. He named her a backup executor of his will in 2019, the same year he was arrested for child sex trafficking. When federal agents took Epstein into custody at a New Jersey airport that July, one of the first three people he called was Ruemmler.

She also fed him confidential White House information. Emails show she forwarded Epstein a draft press response containing sensitive details about the Secret Service prostitution scandal in Cartagena, Colombia. He edited it and sent it back.

In March 2019, four months before his arrest, she was advising him on how to manage public blowback from his 2008 child sex conviction.

She resigned from Goldman Sachs in February. She has been subpoenaed by the House Oversight Committee.

Barack Obama has not said a single word.

Svetlana Lokhova put it plainly: "What did he know and when did he know it?"

That question is not going away.