Discredited author Michael Wolff once told his friend Jeffrey Epstein that he could be the “bullet” to end Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign — if he waded into the spotlight to discuss his relationship with the future president.

“NYT called me about you and Trump. Also, Hillary campaign digging deeply. Again, you should consider preempting,” Wolff wrote to Epstein on Feb. 19, 2016.

The since-deceased pedophile invited the writer to join him and former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak for a meeting, but Wolff declined, and the two didn’t apparently trade emails again until Feb. 24 of that year.

“Lots of reporters,” Epstein said.

“Yeah, you’re the Trump bullet,” Wolff replied.

Weeks earlier, on Jan. 21, 2016, Wolff coached Epstein that “the more Trump looks real, or perish the thought, inevitable, the more reporters are going to focus on this, so, as you will not be surprised, you need a strategy.”

In earlier email exchanges released Wednesday, Wolff had also tried to make the case that Epstein should let Trump “hang himself” with his own PR battles involving allegations of sexual misconduct.

“I think you should let him hang himself If he says he hasn’t been on the plane or to the house, then that gives you a valuable PR and political currency,” Wolff told Epstein on Dec. 16, 2015.

“You can hang him in a way that potentially generates a positive benefit for you, or, if it really looks like he could win, you could save him, generating a debt,” Wolff added. “Of course, it is possible that, when asked, he’ll say Jeffrey is a great guy and has gotten a raw deal and is a victim of political correctness, which is to be outlawed in a Trump regime.”

Wolff, in a lengthy March 18, 2016, email to Epstein, laid out a communications strategy for him during the election year, apparently in response to author James Patterson writing a book about the financier that required “an immediate counter narrative.”

“You would not be able to do a competing book or documentary before then,” he wrote. “That being said, you do need an immediate counter narrative to the book. I believe Trump offers an ideal opportunity. It’s a chance to make the story about something other than you, while, at the same time, letting you frame your own story.

“Also, becoming an anti-Trump voice gives you a certain political cover which you decidedly don’t have now. Still, this necessary [sic] involves you going public,” he added.

The “strategic plan,” Wolff explained, should be in the interests of “involving your public identity, philanthropic activities and interests, and the development of media allies, ought finally to be put in place.”

The book, which was apparently being ghostwritten by the mystery writer John Connolly, was expected to “be tied to the election, the Trump-Clinton angle will amp up the attention 10-fold, in fact, possibly, a hundred fold,” Wolff added.

“Filthy Rich: The Shocking True Story of Jeffrey Epstein” was published by Little, Brown and Company on Oct. 20, 2016.

Nine days later, Wolff followed up with Epstein: “There’s an opportunity to come forward this week and talk about Trump in such a way that could garner you great sympathy and help finish him. Interested?”

Wolff was the author of the supposed tell-all about the first Trump White House, “Fire and Fury,” that the 45th president slammed on Twitter, now X, as “trash” and “full of lies.”

The book also claimed that Trump was “an absentee father” to his five children and “a notorious womanizer” who rarely interacted with his wife, Melania.

Though it became a New York Times bestseller, Wolff’s purported insider account of Trump’s White House was panned by fellow journalists for its shoddy reporting, with The Washington Post describing many of its mistakes as apparent evidence that it wasn’t “clear the book was vetted.”

When confronted with other factual errors in his follow-up book, “Siege: Trump Under Fire,” Wolff fumed in a June 2019 interview on the Yahoo News podcast “Skullduggery”: “Even if I was wrong, I’m not going to admit it to you.”

The Daily Beast also had to retract an article earlier this year based on claims Wolff made on a podcast alleging a modeling agent connected to notorious sex predator Jeffrey Epstein introduced Melania Trump to her husband.

“These two men, Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump, had the closest of relationships for more than a decade,” Wolff claimed in a video statement posted on his Instagram Wednesday.

“They shared everything. They shared their airplanes, they shared women between them, they shared, constantly, business and financial advice,” he said, before referencing his lawsuit against the first lady filed last month

“I think that will allow me to ask the questions of her and, and also of her husband and of the many people that surrounded their relationship with, with Jeffrey Epstein,” he predicted. “And at this point, I think we can all focus on the main issue, which is to get to the bottom of this relationship.”

“The fact remains that President Trump kicked Jeffrey Epstein out of his club decades ago for being a creep to his female employees, including Giuffre,” fired back White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt.

“These stories are nothing more than bad-faith efforts to distract from President Trump’s historic accomplishments, and any American with common sense sees right through this hoax and clear distraction from the government opening back up again.”

The Post reached out to Wolff for comment.