U.S. House Democrats: Epstein email from 2019 said Trump “knew about the girls”
Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell at Cipriani Wall Street on March 15, 2005 in New York City. (Photo by Joe Schildhorn/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)
Democrats on the U.S. House Oversight Committee have released alleged emails today exchanged between accused sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and others about President Trump.
CBS News reports that among the documents is a 2011 message from Epstein to Ghislaine Maxwell, his longtime associate, that said Mr. Trump “spent hours at my house” with one of Epstein’s victims, whose name is redacted.
In another email in 2019 to author Michael Wolff, Epstein wrote, “Of course he knew about the girls as he asked Ghislaine to stop.”
CBS News says it hasn’t independently verified the emails.
The disclosures from House Democrats seemed designed to raise new questions about Trump’s friendship with Epstein and about any knowledge he may have had in what prosecutors call a years-long effort by Epstein to exploit underage girls.
Trump has consistently denied any knowledge of Epstein’s alleged crimes and has said he ended their relationship years ago.
The White House quickly accused Democrats of selectively leaking the emails to smear the president.
The version of the 2011 email released by the Democrats redacted the name of the victim, but Republicans on the committee later said it was Virginia Giuffre, who accused Epstein of arranging for her to have sexual encounters with a number of his rich and powerful friends.
That’s notable because Giuffre, before she died earlier this year, had long insisted that Trump was not among the men who had victimized her. In a court deposition, she said under oath that she didn’t believe Trump had any knowledge of Epstein’s misconduct with underage girls. And in her recently released memoir, she described meeting Trump only once, when she worked as a spa attendant at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida.
Giuffre described being introduced to Trump by her father, who also worked at the club. She described Trump as friendly and said he offered to help her get babysitting jobs with parents at the club. Other members of Epstein’s household staff also said in sworn depositions that, while Trump did stop by Epstein’s house, they didn’t see him engage in any inappropriate conduct.
White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt accused the Democrats of having “selectively leaked emails” to “create a fake narrative to smear President Trump.”
The messages are part of a batch of 23,000 documents provided by Epstein’s estate to the Oversight Committee. The release resurfaces a storyline that had shadowed Trump’s presidency during the summer when the FBI and the Justice Department abruptly announced that they would not be releasing additional documents that investigators had spent weeks examining, disappointing conspiracy theorists and online sleuths who had expected to see new revelations.
Maxwell is serving a 20-year prison term.
Epstein committed suicide in a New York jail in 2019 while awaiting trial on federal charges.
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