Trump and ‘the girls’: Bombshell Epstein emails released
Newly-released emails from Jeffrey Epstein raise new questions about US President Donald Trump’s relationship with the convicted sex offender.
Source: X
Private emails written by sex offender Jeffrey Epstein claim US President Donald Trump knew about “the girls” and “spent hours” with a victim at his house.
Three emails were among a batch of 23,000 pages of documents from the Epstein estate released by US House Democrats on Thursday (AEDT).
The emails were from Epstein to author Michael Wolff and British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, and mention Trump by name.
In one 2019 email to Wolff, Epstein wrote that Trump “knew about the girls”, though it was not clear what that phrase meant.
“Of course he knew about the girls, as he asked Ghislaine to stop,” Epstein wrote to Wolff.
Jeffrey Epstein’s email to Michael Wolff.
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In another email from Epstein to Maxwell in 2011, he wrote that Trump had spent hours at his house with a known Epstein victim.
“i want you to realise that that dog that hasn’t barked is Trump.. [Redacted name of victim] spent hours at my house with him ,, he has never once been mentioned. police chief. etc. im 75% there (sic).”
Jeffrey Epstein’s email to Ghislaine Maxwell.
Democrats say the emails raise further questions about Trump’s relationship with Epstein and how much he knew about his abuse of underage girls — an assertion the White House criticised as a “fake narrative”.
Trump accused the Democrats of promoting a “hoax” to try and deflect from their “massive failures, in particular, their most recent one — THE SHUTDOWN!”.
“The Democrats cost our Country $1.5 Trillion Dollars with their recent antics of viciously closing our Country, while at the same time putting many at risk — and they should pay a fair price,” he wrote on Truth Social in Thursday (AEDT).
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“There should be no deflections to Epstein or anything else, and any Republicans involved should be focused only on opening up our Country, and fixing the massive damage caused by the Democrats!”
Trump has vehemently and consistently denied knowing about Epstein’s sex trafficking.
He has said that he and Epstein, who died in 2019 in a Manhattan jail cell while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges, were once friends before falling out.
New York City’s medical examiner ruled Epstein’s death a suicide.
“The Democrats selectively leaked emails to the liberal media to create a fake narrative to smear President Trump,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said, adding that the redacted victim in the emails was the late Virginia Giuffre, “who repeatedly said President Trump was not involved in any wrongdoing whatsoever”.
Jeffrey Epstein’s email conversation with Michael Wolff.
The Epstein case has dogged Trump for months, upsetting some of his own political supporters who believe the administration has been covering up Epstein’s ties to the rich and powerful and have been unusually critical of his Justice Department for not releasing more information about Epstein’s alleged crimes.
Just four in 10 Republicans told an October Reuters/Ipsos poll that they approved of Trump’s handling of the Epstein files — well below the nine in 10 who approve of his overall performance in the White House.
House Speaker Mike Johnson is scheduled to soon swear in Democratic Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva of Arizona to succeed her late father in Congress.
Grijalva is expected to provide the final signature needed for a petition to force a House vote to release all unclassified records related to Epstein, which Johnson and Trump have so far resisted.
The top Democrat on the Oversight Committee, Representative Robert Garcia, called on the Justice Department to fully release the Epstein files to the public.
“The more Donald Trump tries to cover up the Epstein files, the more we uncover. These latest emails and correspondence raise glaring questions about what else the White House is hiding and the nature of the relationship between Epstein and the president,” he said.
-with AAP
