Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released email communications on Wednesday between convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, his associate Ghislaine Maxwell, who was convicted of sex trafficking after Epstein’s death, and author Michael Wolff, that mention President Donald Trump.
The three separate email conversations released were all sent years apart from each other, beginning in 2011, then 2015 and lastly in 2019 — just months before Epstein reportedly died by suicide after being arrested on charges of sex trafficking.
In the 2019 email to Wolff, Epstein wrote a redacted victim’s name, followed by Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s golf club in Florida.
“Trump said he asked me to resign,” Epstein told Wolff. “(I was) never a member ever ... of course he knew about the girls as he asked Ghislaine to stop.” Maxwell, one of Epstein’s co-conspirators, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for child trafficking and recruiting victims into Epstein’s ring of sexual abuse, among other offenses, in 2022.
In the 2011 message, Epstein describes Trump as “that dog that hasn’t barked,” mentioning a redacted victim’s name who “spent hours at my house with him.”
“He has never once been mentioned,” the email to Maxwell said, with her replying, “I have been thinking about that...”
The last email was a correspondence between Wolff and Epstein. After learning Trump was potentially going to be asked about Epstein in an interview on CNN, the disgraced financier asked Wolff, “If we were able to craft an answer for him, what do you think it should be?”
Wolff responded, “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. 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. 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.”
“The Democrats selectively leaked emails to the liberal media to create a fake narrative to smear President Trump,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told the New York Post. “The ‘unnamed victim’ referenced in these emails is the late Virginia Giuffre, who repeatedly said President Trump was not involved in any wrongdoing whatsoever and ‘couldn’t have been friendlier’ to her in their limited interactions.”
She continued, “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. 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.”
Trump did not receive or send any of the released emailed messages and has repeatedly denied any knowledge or connection to Epstein’s sex trafficking business. The yearslong abuse of minors and young women dates back to the 1990s and has harmed more than 1,000 girls, according to the Justice Department.
Wolff told CNN, “I don’t quite remember the context. But I was engaged then in an in-depth conversation with Epstein about his relationship with Trump and this seems to be part of that conversation.”
During his presidential campaign, Trump repeatedly said he would release government information regarding Epstein’s case; however, that did not happen, frustrating people on both sides of the political aisle.
The House committee obtained the emails after subpoenaing Epstein’s estate earlier this year.
“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,” California Rep. Robert Garcia, who is the top Democrat on the Oversight Committee, told The New York Times.
Republicans on the Oversight Committee accused their Democratic counterparts of creating a “fake narrative.”
“Why did Democrats cover up the name when the Estate didn’t redact it in the redacted documents provided to the committee? It’s because this victim, Virginia Giuffre, publicly said that she never witnessed wrongdoing by President Trump,” the committee posted on X. “Democrats are trying to create a fake narrative to slander President Trump. Shame on them.”