Epstein’s emails stir new doubts over Trump’s past denials | Jeffrey Epstein

Their contents are cryptic and raise more questions than answers.

However, some of the emails released by Democrats in the House of Representatives regarding the Jeffrey Epstein case show enough contradictions between references to Donald Trump and the US president’s previous statements on the subject, fueling a new wave of speculation and speculation.

An email Epstein sent to Ghislaine Maxwell in April 2011 reflects this intriguingly vague tone.

“I want you to understand that that dog that doesn’t bark is Trump,” Epstein writes.

Maxwell writes in response: “I’ve been thinking about it.”

“Victim [name redacted] “I spent hours with him in my house, and he was never mentioned.” The White House later identified the victim as Virginia Giuffre.

Another email that Epstein sent in January 2019 to author Michael Wolff, author of several books about Trump’s presidency, is more direct but still thrillingly incomplete.

Once again the victim’s redacted name is mentioned and an unexplained reference is made to “Mara Lago” [sic]Trump’s home and club in Florida: “Trump says he wants me to resign, never been a member.”

This comment may mean: reports Trump banned Epstein from Mar-a-Lago; According to some reports, he was allegedly trying to seduce another member’s teenage daughter.

During his first presidency in July 2019, Trump told reporters that he banned Epstein but did not explain his reasons. “I had a disagreement a long time ago,” he said. “Frankly, the reason doesn’t change anything.”

He repeated this claim several times as he tried to separate himself from a man he had once lavishly praised.

Last summer, he said he expelled Epstein for banishing spa staff from Mar-a-Lago. Other accounts suggest the two men fell out in 2004 after engaging in a competitive bidding war for the same property in Palm Beach.

“Of course he knew about the girls when he asked Ghislaine to stop,” Epstein adds in his email to Wolff.

While it was not disclosed what Maxwell was asked to stop, Trump’s claim that he “knew about the girls” could raise doubts about the veracity of the president’s previous statements.

During the same encounter with journalists in 2019, he was asked if he had “any doubts about it.” [Epstein] Asked if he was harassing underage women, Trump replied: “No, I had no idea. I had no idea. “I haven’t talked to him for many years.”

This comment (while Epstein was in federal custody awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges) doesn’t quite square with what Trump told New York magazine in 2002.

“I’ve known Jeff for 15 years. He’s a great guy,” he said. “He’s a lot of fun to be with. In fact, it’s been said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and most of them are on the younger side. There’s no doubt about that; Jeffrey enjoys his social life.”

An email exchange released Wednesday between Epstein and Wolff from December 2015, when Trump was running for the Republican presidential nomination, hints at the damage the pair’s past ties could cause Trump.

“I think you should let him hang himself,” Wolff writes. “If he says he didn’t get on the plane or home, that saves you some valuable PR or political money.

“You can hang it up as it potentially gives you a positive benefit, or you can save it and create debt if it looks like it could actually win.

“Of course, if asked, it is possible for Jeffrey to say that he is a great man, that he was wronged, and that he is a victim of political correctness, which would be illegal in the Trump regime.”

Since Epstein’s death and as revelations about his underage sex trafficking have mounted, Trump has, by contrast, tried to wash his hands of his once close friend while emphasizing Epstein’s close ties to Bill Clinton.

“I know [Clinton] He got on a plane 27 times, he said he got on a plane four times… So the question you have to ask is: Did Bill Clinton go to the island, Trump said, referring to a candidate owned by Epstein in 2019?

“Because from what I understand, Epstein had an island that wasn’t a very good place. And I never went there. So you have to ask: Did Bill Clinton go to the island? You’ll learn a lot if you find out that.”

According to Rolling StoneAn unsealed document revealed Clinton and Trump flew on Epstein’s plane.

Trump has used his way of belittling Epstein in recent years.

“I wasn’t a fan of Jeffrey Epstein… I kicked him out of the club. I wanted nothing to do with him. That was so many years ago. That shows you one thing: I have good taste. OK? Now, other people went everywhere with him. They went to his island. They went everywhere.”

He also bowed to conspiracy theories circulating among Maga supporters that Epstein’s death in a Manhattan jail cell may not have been a suicide.

Asked by right-wing broadcaster Tucker Carlson in 2023 whether Epstein had been murdered, he replied: “I don’t know… it’s possible. So I really don’t believe it; I think he probably committed suicide.”

“But there are those people, there are a lot of people; I guess you’re one of them, aren’t you? But a lot of people think he was murdered.”

Amid the clamor to release the files, Trump has been vague, fueling unrest that his latest email releases likely cannot be suppressed.

He was evasive when asked by Fox News during the 2024 presidential election campaign whether he would release the Epstein files along with the John F. Kennedy and 9/11 attack files.

“I think I would. I think less so because you don’t want to affect people’s lives if there’s fake stuff out there, because there’s a lot of fake stuff all over the world,” he said. “I don’t know as much about Epstein as others.”

While sections of his base were angry at reneging on this vague promise, he lashed out at journalists and his opponents.

“Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein? This guy has been talked about for years,” Pam Bondi, the attorney general, told a reporter who asked about the files at a cabinet meeting in July.

“I can’t believe you’re asking a question about Epstein at a time when we’re experiencing the greatest success and also the tragedy of what’s happening in Texas.” [where deadly floods had happened.] This just seems like disrespect.

He also said the files were a hoax and a product of his political rivals, including Barack Obama.

“Just like they created the FAKE Hillary Clinton/Christopher Steele Dossier that they used on me, they created the Epstein Files and now my so-called ‘friends’ are playing right into their hands,” he wrote on the Truth Social platform. “Why didn’t these Radical Left Crazies release the Epstein Files? If there was ANYTHING in there that could harm the MAGA Movement, why didn’t they use it?”