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New documents released by House Democrats appear to show that late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein mentioned President Donald Trump several times in emails he exchanged with his partner Ghislaine Maxwell and author Michael Wolff, author of several books about presidents.
Democratic lawmakers released emails allegedly sent by Epstein in 2011. It suggested to Maxwell that Trump had “spent hours” at his home with a person whom Democrats described as a sexual exploitation victim, whose name is blacked out in the publication to protect privacy.
In the same email, Epstein reportedly called President Trump “a dog that hasn’t barked yet.”
Democrats also said Epstein released another email in 2019 in which he appears to have told Wolff that Trump “knew girls,” referring to young women he had sexually exploited.
The current president was supposed to ask Maxwell to stop supplying young people to Epstein himself, who committed suicide in 2019 while awaiting trial in a high-security prison in New York, according to the brief.
Maxwell is serving a 20-year prison sentence in the United States for sex trafficking.
In a third email from 2015, Wolff warned that CNN planned to ask Trump, then a Republican primary candidate in the 2016 presidential election, about his relationship with Epstein, during which Trump asked the author:
“I think we should let him hang himself,” Wolff replied. “It would be an advantage if he said he was not home or on a plane (in connection with the private jet where Epstein trafficked minors),” the journalists wrote.
White House press secretary Caroline Levitt responded to the document’s release on Wednesday, saying, “Democrats selectively leaked emails to liberal media in order to create a false narrative to smear President Trump.”
“The unidentified victim referred to in these emails is the late Virginia Giuffre, and President Trump did not engage in any wrongdoing and repeatedly stated in their few interactions that he had ‘never been this friendly to her,'” Levitt said.
A White House spokesperson said: “These reports are nothing more than a malicious attempt to distract from President Trump’s historic accomplishments. It is clear to any reasonable American that this is a deception and a clear distraction to prevent the reopening of our government.”
The U.S. House of Representatives resumed session this Wednesday and was expected to focus on a vote to end the federal government shutdown that has lasted more than a month.
But the release of Epstein’s emails set the tone for Democrats, putting the issue at the top of their agenda.
*With inputs from Nomia Iqbal.
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