Donald Trump was excited for his historic second visit to the U.K. until the specter of his old friend Jeffrey Epstein came to haunt him, the president’s biographer said.

In a Wednesday episode of the Daily Beast podcast Inside Trump’s Head, author Michael Wolff said Trump was privately upset that Peter Mandelson, the British ambassador to the U.K., was fired by Prime Minister Keir Starmer over ties to Epstein just days ahead of his royal visit.

“Trump, who has had enormous difficulties principally escaping the Jeffrey Epstein story, was looking for this trip and his appearances with the royal family and this white tie dinner that the king is throwing for him to overshadow his problems,” Wolff told host Joanna Coles. “The difficulty he has run into is that last week the prime minister fi

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