Jeffrey Epstein asked US ambassador to Turkey to 'make him smile' with 'child' photo

Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein asked Tom Barrack, the current US ambassador to Turkey, to “make me smile” with photos of him and a “child” in a 2016 email. The correspondence occurred while Barrack was working to introduce his friend, future President Donald Trump, to senior officials from the UAE. The emails, released by Congress, show Epstein maintained contact with Trump’s trusted advisors years after Trump claimed to have cut ties with him. Barrack is described as a key figure in Trump’s Middle East foreign policy, also serving as the envoy to Syria and handling diplomacy with Lebanon and the Gulf states.