WASHINGTON — House Democrats were dismissed Wednesday. Jeffrey Epstein wrote in an email that President Trump “spent many hours at my house” with one of his victims.Other messages suggested the convicted sex offender believed the president knew more about his abuse than he was admitting.
President Trump has strongly denied any involvement or knowledge of Epstein’s sex trafficking operation. He said, along with Epstein, the disgraced financier who committed suicide in federal prison in 2019. They were once friends but became estranged
But Democrats on the House Oversight Committee said the emails, selected from thousands of pages of documents the committee received, raised the following questions: New questions about their relationship. In one of the messages, Epstein flatly claimed that Trump “knew about the girls,” although investigators later discovered that many of the girls were minors. In another article, Mr. Epstein reflected on how he answered media questions about their relationship once Mr. Trump became a major figure in national politics.
that’s for sure Message will intensify debate on Capitol Hill over handling of Epstein file The decision by the Trump administration and senior government officials to rescind the promise to release everyone. The issue has divided Republicans and alienated some of Trump’s right-wing supporters. faded into the background as prolonged government shutdown;
However, the House is expected to reconvene on Wednesday and pass a bill to end the government shutdown. The Epstein scandal seems to be in the spotlight again.
“These recent emails and communications are Obvious questions about what else the White House is hiding This is the nature of the relationship between Epstein and the President,” said Rep. Robert Garcia of California, the Oversight Committee’s top Democrat, in a statement.
The three email exchanges made public Wednesday came after Epstein took a plea deal in Florida on state charges of prostitution in 2008, and federal prosecutors agreed not to press charges. The incident comes years after Trump and Epstein were suspected of falling out in the early 2000s. One letter was addressed to Epstein’s longtime confidante, Ghislaine Maxwell, and two letters were addressed to author Michael Wolff.
In an April 2011 email, Epstein told Maxwell, who was later convicted of aiding and abetting a crime: “I want you to understand that the dog that isn’t barking is Trump.”. He added that the unidentified victim “spent hours with him at my house and never told him about it.”
“I’ve been thinking about it,” Maxwell replied.
In January 2019, Epstein wrote in an email to Wolff that Trump “of course knew about the girls because he asked Ghislaine to stop.” House Democrats said this week, citing an anonymous whistleblower. Maxwell was preparing to formally request that Trump commute his federal sentence.
These emails were provided to the Oversight Committee along with a trove of documents from Mr. Epstein’s estate. The commission requested it as part of its investigation into Mr. Epstein and Mr. Maxwell, a financier who is serving a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking.
committee staff Victim’s name removed and any identifying information from emails. The full set of documents has not been made public, so it is unclear whether the emails were extracted from a longer conversation that could have provided a more complete context.
President Trump denounced continued questions about his handling of the incident as a “hoax” by Democrats. He called Epstein “disgusting” and denied any involvement in any wrongdoing with Epstein or Maxwell.
Trump and Epstein They split their time between New York and Palm Beach, Florida, and were friends in the 1990s and early 2000s.. Their relationship seemed to fade around 2004, but Trump and his aides have different explanations for why. One theory is that the two had a falling out while trying to compete for real estate in Palm Beach.
Last summer, President Trump said Epstein “hired” employees at his private club, the Mar-a-Lago Spa. He said he believed one of the women, a Palm Beach resident, was Virginia Giuffre, and that Maxwell recruited her to Epstein’s sex trafficking ring while she was a teenager working at Mar-a-Lago.
When Mr. Epstein called Mr. Trump a “dog that won’t bark” in an email to Mr. Maxwell in 2011, the mogul was a reality TV star, New York tabloid celebrity and years away from becoming president.
Around that time, Epstein sent an email to his staff about recent negative publicity about abuse that occurred inside his Florida home, according to documents previously released by the oversight committee.
Earlier this year, the Trump administration released a transcript of a court interview with Maxwell, in which Maxwell acknowledged that Trump and Epstein had a social relationship. President Trump has denied any ties to a sex trafficking ring.
The 2019 email in which Mr. Epstein claimed Mr. Trump “knew about the girls” and asked Mr. Maxwell to “stop” was sent to Mr. Wolf, who recently wrote a tell-all book about the president.
Epstein was months away from being arrested and sent to prison on federal charges, but he received a lot of attention after the incident. miami herald has published a series of articles that once again draws attention to the secret agreements he signed in 2008.
In his email, Epstein mentioned victims of his sex trafficking operation. He also mentioned Mar-a-Lago, He denied that President Trump had ever asked him to resign from the club. “I was never a member,” Epstein wrote.
Mr. Wolf also participated in a third email exchange, which began on December 15, 2015, the night of the Republican presidential primary debate. Mr. Wolf sent Mr. Epstein an email warning that CNN “will be asking Mr. Trump about his relationship with you tonight, either on air or in a press conference afterwards.”
Epstein replied: “If we could give him an answer, what do you think it should be?”
Mr. Wolf suggested that President Trump may try to deny any close ties to Mr. Epstein and recommended that no action be taken. “I think they should let him hang himself,” he wrote of Trump. “If he says he’s not on the plane or home, that gives him valuable publicity and political currency,” which could later be used to “hang” him or “help him into debt.”
According to records, Trump was never asked about the issue during the debate.. It’s not clear whether he was asked about it separately.
Democrats released the emails hours before House Speaker Mike Johnson was to administer the oath of Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva (D-Ariz.), who had avoided nomination for nearly two months after winning the election.
He is expected to provide the final signatures needed to force a House vote on a bill that would require the Trump administration to release all investigative materials related to Epstein. The White House strongly opposes this measure.
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