Newly released correspondence alleges Trump ‘knew about the girls’

“Trump said he wanted me to resign, he was never a member. Of course he knew about the girls when he asked Ghislaine to stop,” Epstein wrote.

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The redacted email also referenced Trump’s private club Mar-a-Lago in Florida and an Epstein victim.

The new documents are sure to spark renewed interest in the implications of the Epstein saga, which created havoc in Washington earlier this year when Democrats and a group of Republicans demanded the Trump administration release more files from the FBI investigation into Epstein’s alleged sex trafficking.

Epstein was never convicted of these charges, but his longtime collaborator and ex-girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell is serving a 20-year prison sentence for conspiring with Epstein to sexually abuse minors.

Responding to the release of the emails, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the emails were selectively chosen “to create a false narrative that would denigrate President Trump.”

“The fact remains that decades ago, President Trump expelled Jeffrey Epstein from his club for terrorizing his female employees,” Leavitt said. he said.

“These stories are nothing more than malicious efforts to distract from President Trump’s historic accomplishments, and any American with common sense can see through this deception and a clear distraction from reopening the government.”

It was not clear whether the emails selectively released by Democrats were part of longer email chains, and the lack of context makes it difficult to determine their significance. However, Democrats said the documents dealt a blow to “the White House’s cover-up of Epstein.”

“The more Donald Trump tries to cover up the Epstein files, the more we uncover. These latest emails and cables raise salient questions about what else the White House is hiding and the nature of the relationship between Epstein and the president,” said Robert Garcia, the committee’s top Democrat.

“The Department of Justice must immediately make the full Epstein files public. The Oversight Committee will continue to press for answers and will not rest until justice is achieved for the victims.”

Members of the House of Representatives were returning to Washington on Wednesday (Thursday AEDT) after a long break to vote on a bill to reopen the US federal government.

Democrats on the House Oversight Committee have selectively released a few of the thousands of documents collected from the Epstein estate.

These included pages from a so-called “birthday book” prepared for Epstein’s 50th birthday in 2003. One of those pages was a written note purportedly signed by Trump, appearing inside the outline of a woman’s body.

Trump denied writing the note or drawing the picture. He is also suing News Corp Wall StreetJournalrevealed the memo for the first time in his report on the subject.

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