Trump sex scandal: Democrats release new Epstein emails mentioning the president
In a 2011 email exchange with his accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein called Donald Trump "the dog that didn't bark" and told Maxwell that one of his alleged victims "spent hours at my house with Trump." The emails were released on November 12 by Democrats on the House Oversight and Reform Committee, according to ABC News.
“I want you to understand that the dog that didn’t bark is Trump,” Epstein wrote in a typo-riddled message to Maxwell in April 2011. “[The victim] spent hours at my house with him and he was never mentioned.”
“I thought about it…” Maxwell replied.
The correspondence, which came just weeks after a British newspaper published a series of articles about Epstein, Maxwell and their influential acquaintances, was one of three in more than 23,000 documents recently obtained by the committee from Epstein's estate in response to a formal demand for them.
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The names of the alleged victims and personal information were withheld.
Two other published emails are between Epstein and author Michael Wolff, the author of four books about the Trump presidency. Wolff claimed to have spoken extensively with Epstein about Trump while researching his books.
"I heard CNN is going to ask Trump about his relationship with you today, either on air or right after," Wolfe wrote to Epstein in December 2015, six months after Trump officially entered the presidential race.
"If we were to prepare an answer for him, what would it be?" Epstein replied.
"I think we should let him hang himself," Wolfe wrote the next day. "If he says he was never on the plane or in your house, that will give you valuable PR and political capital. You can use that to your advantage, or, if he looks like he might win, you can keep it so he'll be beholden to you. Of course, it's possible that if questioned, he'll say, 'Jeffrey's a great guy, he's been treated unfairly, he's a victim of political correctness, which will be banned under the Trump regime.'"
The third email is a correspondence between Epstein and Wolff from January 2019, when Trump was already president. It appears to address the question of whether Trump actually banned Epstein from Mar-a-Lago.
"Trump said he asked me to leave, but I was never a member," Epstein wrote. "Of course he knew about the girls—he asked Ghislaine to stop."
The full context of these correspondences is unclear from the published excerpts.
Wolfe, in a November 12 phone interview, said he didn't recall "specific emails or context" but did "have a lengthy conversation with Epstein about his relationship with Donald Trump."
"I tried to convince Epstein to go public about his connection to Trump at the time, and he proved to be a valuable source for me," he added.
Previously released court documents and materials from Maxwell's trial did not contain allegations against Trump.
In July, Trump posted a lengthy message on social media accusing Democrats of perpetrating a "fraud" around the Epstein material, calling it a "hoax" and a "fake."
On Wednesday, November 12, Republicans claimed that Democrats are selectively releasing documents "for clickbait" and concealing materials that mention Democratic officials. They asserted that they are continuing to review the documents to protect potential victims and called on Democrats to stop politicizing the investigation.
The committee's majority Republican spokesman said: "Democrats continue to cherry-pick documents to create clickbait that is not based on facts."
"Epstein's heirs have handed over more than 20,000 pages of documents, but Democrats are once again deliberately concealing records that mention Democrats. The committee is actively reviewing the materials and will release them once the victims' personal information is removed," he noted.
Republicans accused Democrats of trying to "create a false narrative to smear President Trump."
On social media, Republicans are claiming that Democrats omitted the name "Virginia" from Epstein and Maxwell's 2011 letter—likely a reference to Virginia Giuffre, a prominent Epstein accuser who publicly spoke about her experiences of exploitation but never accused Trump. Republicans noted that the name was not redacted in the version of the documents submitted to the committee by Epstein's estate.
"Why did the Democrats cover up this name when the heirs didn't?" their post asks. "Because this victim, Virginia Giuffre, has publicly stated that she never saw Trump do anything illegal. Democrats are trying to create a false narrative to smear President Trump. Shame on them."
Giuffre died this year, presumably by suicide. Her book, "Nobody's Girl," was published posthumously last month.
Republicans shared the letter with Giuffre's name unmasked with ABC News.
The White House accused Democrats of "selectively leaking emails to liberal media outlets to create a false narrative" about Trump and noted that the name of Giuffre, "who has repeatedly said Trump was not involved in any wrongdoing and was only friendly to her," was withheld.
"These stories are nothing more than an attempt to distract from President Trump's historic achievements. Any sensible American can see that this is yet another hoax and an attempt to distract from reopening the government," said press secretary Caroline Leavitt.
The release of the letters coincided with the day House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) was scheduled to swear in Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva (D-Arizona), who won a special election. Afterward, she is expected to sign off on a motion to force a vote on a bill that would compel the Justice Department to release the full Epstein investigation. The vote could take place in the first week of December, after Thanksgiving.
"The Justice Department must immediately release its Epstein files," said Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.), a senior member of the House Oversight Committee. "The more Donald Trump tries to hide Epstein's files, the more we find. These emails raise serious questions about what else the White House is hiding and the true nature of the relationship between Epstein and the president."
Since Epstein's death, the Justice Department has been repeatedly criticized for refusing to release all materials. The agency stated that it found no evidence of a "client list" or blackmail of influential individuals.
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A House committee in August subpoenaed the Justice Department for all documents related to Epstein and Maxwell.
So far, the department has released only a small portion of the materials collected during years of investigations into the alleged international sex trafficking network run by Epstein. It is unclear whether the letters obtained by the committee are in the Department of Justice's possession.
Following Epstein's arrest in 2019, Trump said he hadn't spoken to him for 15 years and claimed he cut off contact with him in the early 2000s after learning that Epstein and Maxwell were allegedly poaching employees from Mar-a-Lago.
Epstein committed suicide in 2019 while in custody awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. Maxwell, who denied the charges, is currently serving a 20-year sentence in Texas for child sex trafficking.
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