New documents released by the US House Oversight Committee this Wednesday (11/12) show that Donald Trump was aware of Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse scheme against minors, but that the current US president did not participate in the abuse.
More than 20,000 pages of documents were released by a House of Commons committee on Wednesday. One of the files contains an email sent to Mr. Epstein on February 1, 2019, about six months before his suicide.
“Mr. Trump was aware of this (abuse) and came to my home numerous times during this period,” Epstein wrote in an email to himself. In the same message, the businessman said President Trump was not involved in any crime. “He never received a massage,” he writes.
Jeffrey Epstein case
- Jeffrey Epstein is accused of sexually abusing underage girls through his sex trafficking network during the 1990s and 2000s.
- The investigation into the former investors began in mid-2005. He was arrested in 2008 after pleading guilty to several charges and was guaranteed a lighter sentence. Epstein was released in July 2009.
- Mr. Epstein was thrust back into the spotlight in 2019 when a federal investigation led to new arrests.
- In August of that year, less than three weeks after his re-arrest, Epstein was found dead in a Manhattan jail. After investigation, it was determined that the billionaire had committed suicide.
The “massages” Epstein referred to were used in sex crimes. According to documents from the Southern District of New York, Epstein’s human trafficking scheme included recruiting young girls with the promise of paying them $200 to “give massages to rich billionaires.”
The young woman was then taken to Epstein’s room, where she was forced to sit on a massage table. There he sexually assaulted the victim. “The same pattern was repeated over and over again with several children,” excerpts from the lawsuit read.
President Trump ‘knew girls’
Other documents released by the House committee confirm that Trump knew about the abuse. In one, sent to author Michael Wolff in 2019, Epstein said the current US president “knew about the girls.”
“While Mr. Trump has stated that he asked me to resign, I was never a member (of Mr. Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club). Of course he knew about the girls. “I asked Ghislaine (my former partner) to stop,” Mr. Epstein said in a letter to Mr. Wolf.
In a 2011 email exchange with his then-partner, Ghislaine Maxwell, who was later convicted of aiding and abetting a crime, Epstein claimed that Trump “spent hours” with one of his victims at his home.
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Trump and Epstein relationship
Although the case was never formally investigated, the relationship between Mr. Trump and Mr. Epstein became a point of turmoil during the Republican Party’s second presidential term.
Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, the two maintained a close friendship and were seen attending several parties attended by American high circles.
However, the US president has denied having any knowledge of Epstein’s crimes. During last year’s campaign, Mr. Trump promised to release new documents about the scandal, including a list of people allegedly involved in the sex trafficking scheme.
Some of them were published in February, but they did not bring any big news about the case.
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President Trump attacks Democrats
After the emails were released, President Donald Trump accused Democrats of using the incident to “distract attention” from the government shutdown the United States is facing.
“Democrats are trying to revive the Jeffrey Epstein hoax because they will do anything to distract from how bad the results have been with the government shutdown and many other issues,” the US leader wrote.
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