Jeffrey Epstein mentioned Donald Trump by name repeatedly in private correspondence from the last 15 years. This was stated by emails published by Democrats from the House Oversight Committee, letters between a suicidal pedophile and his collaborators confirming that the tycoon knew about sex trafficking with young women carried out by the suicidal businessman, who was convicted of sexual abuse and international trafficking of minors.
In emails addressed to his longtime colleague and collaborator, Ghislaine Maxwell – who was also convicted of sex trafficking after the man’s death in prison – and to author Michael Wolff, Epstein claims Trump spent a lot of time with a woman, whom the Democratic Oversight Committee described as a victim of sex trafficking. The email also included a message in which Epstein claimed that Tbutt “he knows about girls”apparently referring to Trump’s claim that he kicked Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago for seducing young women who worked at the resort.
The email is published Yesterday from the DPRwho acquired it after suing Epstein’s estate earlier this year, just hours before a Republican-led commission released thousands of other heir documents.
Trump did not receive or send any messages, either most of which date from before his presidential termand has not been accused of any criminal offense in connection with Epstein or Maxwell.
The US President and White House later branded the matter a “hoax”, and spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said the emails “proved absolutely nothing, other than that President Trump had done nothing wrong”.
“Trump spent hours with a girl at my house”
In an April 2, 2011 email, reviewed by CNN, Epstein wrote to Maxwell: “I want you to understand that the dog that doesn’t bark is Trump…”, thus speaking of a girl – whose name has been withheld – who “spent hours at my house with him… “. Maxwell replied on that occasion:” I have thought about it … “.
Republican member of the House Oversight Committee they identified the person as Virginia Giuffrea prominent Epstein survivor who committed suicide in April, and accused Democrats of withholding her name simply because she did not accuse Trump.
In her book, Giuffre said her father, who worked maintenance at Mar-a-Lago in 2000, got her a job as a locker room attendant, explaining that “Trump was very friendly, telling me how much fun I had to be there. ‘Do you like kids?’ he asked. ‘Are you babysitting?’ He explained that he owned several houses near the resort that he lent to friends, many of whom had children who needed care.” In the book “Nobody’s Girl,” Giuffre never accuses Trump of wrongdoing.
About three years before that email, in June 2008, Epstein had been sentenced to 18 months in minimum security prison after pleading guilty to state charges of soliciting prostitution and soliciting prostitution with a child under 18. He was released from prison in July 2009, after serving just 13 months. Years later, his plea deal was met with media attention and widespread criticism for being too lenient on him.
“He knew about the girls, he asked Ghislane to stop”
The Democratic Party documents also include emails between Epstein and Wolff, including one from January 2019, during Trump’s first term, and about seven months before Epstein killed himself in prison.
According to emails reviewed by CNN, Epstein wrote the letter to Wolff apparently in response to Trump’s claim that he asked Epstein to resign from the US president’s club at Mar-a-Lago.
“Trump said he asked me to resign – Epsterin said -. I was never a member… he clearly knew about the girls, because he asked Ghislaine to quit.”
But the White House claimed that Trump barred Epstein from the club “because he was acting strange” while Trump himself claimed that Epstein had “asked” young women to work at the resort’s spa, while explaining why their relationship ended. In his questioning with Deputy Attorney General Blanche, Maxwell later denied recruiting the girls at Mar-a-Lago.
Third email: “Questions about you? You can destroy Trump”
In a third email published by the Oversight Committee and seen by CNN, Wolff – who published a book about Trump’s West Wing in 2018 – wrote to Epstein with the subject “notice” on December 15, 2015. CNN’s Republican primary debate was held that day, but the transcript does not mention Epstein.
“I heard that CNN plans to ask Trump tonight about his relationship with you, also directly,” Wolff wrote to Epstein. And the financier, based on the email, responded: “If we could give him an answer, what do you think the answer should be?”
“I think – answered Wolff – you should let him commit suicide. If he says he didn’t get on the plane or didn’t come home, then that gives you a valuable advantage in terms of public relations and political value. You can destroy him in a way that has the potential to produce positive profits for you, or, if it looks like he can win, you can bail him out, generating debt. Of course, when asked, he will say that Jeffrey is a good person and that he received unfair treatment and was a victim of political correctness, that should be prohibited.”
Wolff has said publicly that he interviewed Epstein, while the Daily Beast reported that it had obtained a recording in which Epstein spoke at length about Trump with the author and claimed that the two were close friends. According to the Daily Beast, Trumpians called the tape a “fake slander.”
“It’s crazy,” Epstein criticized the US president
Following the publication of emails Democrats exchanged with Wolff and Maxwell, a Republican-led committee published another 20,000 pages received from Epstein’s heirs, including messages in which the pedophile financier criticized his former friend after taking office.
“Donald is completely crazy,” Epstein wrote in a January 2017 email to a New York Times reporter, a week after Trump took office. In another email exchange in December 2018 with former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, he called the president “almost crazy.” That same month, he emailed former Obama White House adviser Kathryn Ruemmler about Trump’s behavior.
“You can tell your Democratic friends that treating Trump like a mob boss is ignoring the fact that he has enormous and dangerous power,” Epstein said. “Tightening the straps too slowly risks creating a very bad situation. Gambino was never commander in chief. Gambino can’t do much when the walls are closed. Not so with this madman.”
It is unclear why Ruemmler and Epstein were writing at the time. However, the Wall Street Journal reported in 2023 that a spokesperson for Goldman Sachs, where Ruemmler then worked, said he had a professional relationship with Epstein in connection with his role at the law firm Latham & Watkins LLP.
Ghislane Maxwell ‘frees’ the tycoon
Before the emails were released, Maxwell had essentially abdicated Trump, telling Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche in an interview released earlier this year that she had “never seen the President in an inappropriate context” and that she did not recall seeing Trump at Epstein’s home. On the other hand, he admitted that he had seen the two men together socially. “The president has never been inappropriate toward anyone,” Maxwell said. “When I was with him, he was a true gentleman in every way.”
The reaction of the White House and the tycoon
Meanwhile, a White House spokesperson criticized House Democrats for spreading the message, claiming they “selectively leaked emails to liberal media to create a false narrative aimed at defaming President Trump.”
“These stories are nothing more than a bad faith attempt to divert attention from President Trump’s historic success, and every reasonable American can see through these lies and a clear distraction from reopening the government,” he said.
Trump himself later echoed this with a series of posts on Truth Social, in which he accused Democrats of “trying to bring up the Jeffrey Epstein hoax again because they will do anything to distract from how much harm they caused the Shutdown and many other topics,” and then issued a warning to Republicans.
“Only a very bad, or stupid, Republican would fall into this trap,” he added, as several GOP lawmakers joined the House call to force a vote to force the release of Justice Department files related to Epstein. “There should be no diversion on Epstein or anything, and all Republicans involved should focus solely on reopening our country and repairing the enormous damage caused by the Democratic Party!”, the tycoon blasted.
The Trump-Epstein relationship and the political storm
The Trump-Epstein relationship has long been public knowledge, although the US president has denied any wrongdoing and filed a defamation lawsuit against the publisher of the Wall Street Journal and a journalist who wrote a story about a collection of letters given to Epstein for his 50th birthday in 2003, including a card with Trump’s name and a silhouette of a naked woman.
Trump’s relationship with Epstein has come under scrutiny amid a political firestorm in Washington over the question of whether – and when – the federal government will release its documents on the late financier, who died in prison in 2019. The controversy escalated earlier this year when Trump’s Justice Department said it was sticking to its initial conclusion that Epstein had committed suicide and had no plans to release further information about the case.
The Justice Department statement later sparked protests in Congress and among some members of Trump’s MAGA base, giving new impetus to efforts to obtain new information. The House Oversight Committee has been successful in obtaining materials from the heirs, and other efforts are underway in Congress to force a vote to obtain the release of additional documents from the US government.
