1. Boris Epshteyn is an American Republican political strategist, attorney, and investment banker.
37 Facts About Boris Epshteyn
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Boris Epshteyn is currently Senior Counsel and Senior Advisor to President Donald J Trump.
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Boris Epshteyn was previously a strategic advisor on Donald Trump's 2020 presidential campaign and has remained a close advisor to Trump in his inter-presidency.
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Boris Epshteyn was the chief political commentator at Sinclair Broadcast Group until December 2019.
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Boris Epshteyn was a senior advisor to Trump's 2016 campaign for President of the United States, and previously worked on John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign.
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Boris Epshteyn was a member of a team of Trump lawyers who sought to prevent the certification of Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 presidential election.
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Boris Epshteyn was born in 1981 in Moscow, Soviet Union, the son of Anna Shulgina and Alexander Boris Epshteyn.
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Boris Epshteyn graduated from West Windsor-Plainsboro High School in 2000.
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Boris Epshteyn graduated from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service.
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Boris Epshteyn graduated from the Georgetown University Law Center with a Juris Doctor in 2007.
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Boris Epshteyn worked on securities transactions, private placements, and bank finance.
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In 2008, Boris Epshteyn was a communications aide with the McCain-Palin campaign.
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Boris Epshteyn was managing director of business and legal affairs at the boutique investment bank West America Securities Corporation until the firm was expelled by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority in 2013.
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Boris Epshteyn was managing director of business and legal affairs for investment banking firm TGP Securities from 2013 to 2017.
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Boris Epshteyn's explanation failed to account for why the storage services required that portrait be displayed in public, as opposed to being maintained in a storage space.
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Similarly, Boris Epshteyn failed to explain why the Trump National Doral Miami provided such storage services only for the Trump Foundation and only for a portrait of Trump.
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Boris Epshteyn anchored Trump Tower Live, the Trump campaign's Facebook Live nightly program.
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Boris Epshteyn became a special assistant in the Trump administration as it took office.
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Boris Epshteyn wrote Trump's controversial statement for Holocaust Remembrance Day in January 2017, which omitted any mention of the Jewish people.
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Boris Epshteyn was the strategic advisor and co-chair of the Jewish Voices for Trump Advisory Board for Trump's 2020 re-election campaign.
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Boris Epshteyn led the campaign's Jewish outreach, appearing in media interviews across national outlets and participating in large-scale events across the country, including in Florida, Pennsylvania, and New York.
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Boris Epshteyn and others asserted this was a contingency similar to the 1960 presidential election, in which two slates of electors were prepared pending results of a late recount of ballots in Hawaii.
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Boris Epshteyn was subpoenaed in January 2022 to testify before the House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack.
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Boris Epshteyn joined Trump on his trip to Manhattan for his arraignment in April 2023.
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Boris Epshteyn was identified by the New York Times as the likely identity of "Co-Conspirator 6" in the August 1,2023, indictment of Trump for conspiracy.
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In November 2024, it was reported after an internal investigation that Trump's top lawyer, David Warrington, had alleged that Boris Epshteyn had asked for monetary payments from at least two people seeking White House jobs.
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Boris Epshteyn served as Trump's senior legal adviser and coordinated the efforts of Trump's legal team leading up to and after the 2024 presidential election.
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In January 2025, Boris Epshteyn served as a member of the Presidential Delegation to attend the commemoration of the anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland.
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In March 2025, Boris Epshteyn served as a member of the Presidential Delegation to attend the opening ceremony of the 2025 Special Olympics World Winter Games in Turin, Italy.
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Boris Epshteyn married Lauren Tanick Boris Epshteyn, a sales manager at Google, in 2009.
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Boris Epshteyn is a friend of Eric Trump, who attended Georgetown.
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In 2014, Boris Epshteyn was charged with misdemeanor assault after an altercation at a bar.
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On October 10,2021, Boris Epshteyn was arrested at a night club.
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Boris Epshteyn pleaded guilty to "disorderly conduct-disruptive behavior or fighting", for which he served probation.
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Boris Epshteyn was indicted for his role in Arizona's fake electors scheme on April24,2024.
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On June 18,2024, Boris Epshteyn pleaded not guilty while speaking to the Maricopa County court by phone.
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Boris Epshteyn is accused of assisting Rudy Giuliani in carrying out the scheme to submit fake electors for Trump in Arizona.