A photo of President Donald Trump and slow sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is on display after being unofficially placed in a bus stop. (Leon Neal/Getty Images).
WASHINGTON – Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives investigating slow sex offender Jeffrey Epstein released emails on Wednesday showing that President Donald Trump knew about the financier’s abuse of underage girls as early as 2011.
The three Emails According to Democrats, the documents released by Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee were among 23,000 pages of documents that Epstein’s estate turned over to the committee.
In 2011 correspondence with now-convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein wrote that Trump spent “hours at my home” with a victim whose name was redacted from the email. In the same email, Epstein referred to Trump as the “dog that didn’t bark.”
In an email exchange between Epstein and journalist Michael Wolff in 2015, Wolff told Epstein that he had heard that CNN would be asking Trump about his relationship with the financier. The two talk about how one could hypothetically find “an answer” for Trump.
Wolff responds: “If he says he wasn’t on the plane or at home, then that’s valuable (public relations) and political currency.”
In a January 2019 email, also to Wolff, Epstein referred to the redacted name of a victim who was at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate and private club in Florida and wrote: “Trump said he asked me to resign, was never a member. Of course he knew about the girls when he asked Ghislaine to quit.”
Trump has said He had a falling out with Epstein and kicked him out of his club because Epstein accused him of poaching juvenile female workers from the club’s spa.
Emails raise more questions, top Dem says
House Oversight Committee member Robert Garcia said in a statement Wednesday that the emails “raise glaring questions about what else the White House is hiding and about the nature of the relationship between Epstein and the president.”
“The Department of Justice must immediately make the Epstein files fully available to the public. The Oversight Committee will continue to push for answers and will not stop until justice is served for the victims,” Garcia continued.
Just hours after committee Democrats released the emails, the committee’s Republican leaders issued a brief press release linking to “an additional 20,000 pages of documents from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein” contained in Google Drive and Dropbox clouds.
During Wednesday’s press conference, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said, “These emails prove absolutely nothing other than the fact that President Trump has done nothing wrong.”
Leavitt added that Trump and Epstein both lived in Palm Beach, Florida.
“Jeffrey Epstein was a member of Mar a Lago until President Trump kicked him out because Jeffrey Epstein was a pedophile and an idiot,” she said.
Congress investigates after FBI backs down
The bipartisan committee’s investigation began shortly after the FBI released a July memo memo He said the Justice Department would not release any further information about the government’s sex trafficking investigation into Epstein.
Epstein was found dead of an apparent suicide in August 2019 in a Manhattan jail cell where he was awaiting his federal trial.
The FBI’s announcement that it would not release further details sparked a firestorm of calls to release all investigative material, even among Trump’s supporters in Congress and right-wing media figures. including Megyn Kelly and the slow Charlie Kirk.
During the election campaign, Trump campaigned for the publication of the so-called “Epstein files”.
A bipartisan initiative in the House aims to force a vote on releasing the records as soon as this week after House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., swears in Arizona Democrat Adelita Grijalva.
Grijalva has pledged to provide the final signature on a dismissal petition from Reps. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and Ro Khanna, D-Calif. to force a full House vote on a bill to release all Epstein investigation files.
Massie and Khanna hosted one press conference on Capitol Hill in early September with several women who shared stories of abuse at the hands of Epstein and Maxwell.
Since the FBI memo, Trump’s past relationship with Epstein has come under scrutiny.
The president sued the Wall Street Journal over its coverage of a 50th anniversary Birthday card Trump is said to have given Epstein. The card featured a cryptic message and a scrawl of a naked woman with Trump’s apparent signature mimicking pubic hair.
The journal too reported that Attorney General Pam Bondi informed the president in May that his name appeared in the Epstein case files. The context in which his name appeared is unclear.
Trump has denied the reports.
