"Trump Spent Hours at My House with Victim"...Sex Offender Epstein's Emails Released

White House: "Leaked to Smear... False Narrative"

Emails indicating that former U.S. President Donald Trump was aware of, and potentially complicit in, the crimes of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein have been released by Democratic lawmakers.

A sculpture satirizing the relationship between President Donald Trump and the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Photo by AP Yonhap News

According to the New York Times and other sources, Democratic members of the House Oversight Committee announced on November 12 (local time) that they had found three such emails in the "Epstein files" submitted to the committee.

In an email sent by Epstein to his girlfriend and accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell in April 2011, an as-yet-unnamed victim stated, "I spent several hours at my house with him (President Trump)" and "He has never been mentioned once." The victim added, "I hope you realize that the dog who hasn't barked yet is President Trump." Maxwell replied, "I was thinking the same thing."

Currently serving a prison sentence, Maxwell stated during an interview with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche in July that "I have never seen the President in an inappropriate situation," suggesting that President Trump was not directly involved in Epstein's crimes. However, Democratic lawmakers, citing an anonymous source, claimed that Maxwell was planning to formally request a commutation from President Trump.

After Trump launched his political career, Epstein also exchanged emails on this issue with journalist and author Michael Wolff in 2015. In an email sent to Epstein on December 15, 2015, during the Republican presidential primary, Wolff wrote, "(The media will) ask Trump about his relationship with you." When Epstein asked, "If I could create an answer for him, what do you think would be best?" Wolff replied, "Let him get caught in his own words." He added, "If he says he never flew on your plane or visited your house, you can use that later to attack him or to help him and make him owe you."

In January 2019, just a few months before his arrest, Epstein emailed Wolff, saying of then-President Trump, "He knew about those girls." Several of Epstein's victims were underage women, and the "girls" mentioned in the email are interpreted to refer to them.

Robert Garcia, the ranking Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, stated that the newly released emails "raise clear questions about what else the White House may be hiding and about the nature of Epstein's relationship with the President."

The White House pushed back against the release of the emails by Democrats, stating, "The emails were selectively leaked to create a false narrative to smear President Trump." Spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said in a statement, "This is a disingenuous attempt to distract from President Trump's historic achievements." Leavitt also claimed that the victim referenced in the emails as having spent several hours at Epstein's and Trump's homes was Virginia Giuffre, who died by suicide in April, and argued that the Democrats' claim of an "unnamed victim" was inaccurate. Leavitt emphasized, "She repeatedly stated that President Trump was never involved in any wrongdoing and that, even during her limited interactions with him, he could not have been kinder."

President Trump also wrote on the social network Truth Social, "The Democrats are dredging up the Epstein hoax again because they will do anything to distract from how poorly they have handled the shutdown and so many other problems." He added, "No one should be distracted by Epstein or anything else."

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