Trump ‘knew about the girls,’ Jeffrey Epstein claims in explosive emails
Disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, accused of orchestrating the sex trafficking of young girls, wrote in private emails that House Democrats released Wednesday that Donald Trump “spent hours at my house” and “was aware of the girls.”
“Of course he knew about the girls,” Epstein said of Trump in an email to author and journalist Michael Wolff in early 2019, as Trump was nearing the end of his first term as President.
After months of political wrangling over the well-connected sex offender’s so-called “Epstein files” documents, Democrats on the House Oversight Committee publicly released some of Epstein’s emails to Wolff, who was convicted of sex trafficking after Epstein’s death, and Ghislaine Maxwell, a longtime associate of Epstein’s.
emails These are just a small portion of the collection of 23,000 documents from Epstein’s estate presented to the committee that are sure to revive questions about what the president knew about Epstein’s sexual abuse of girls and young women.
Trump has denied knowing anything about Epstein’s crimes, and no investigation has linked Trump to them.
“The more Donald Trump tries to cover up the Epstein files, the more we will uncover,” California Democrat Robert Garcia (D-Long Beach) said in a speech. expression when he published the documents.
“These latest emails and correspondence raise salient questions about what else the White House is hiding and the nature of the relationship between Epstein and the President,” Garcia added. “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.”
Epstein, 66, died by suicide in a New York prison in August 2019, weeks after the incident. arrested and federally charged with sex trafficking and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of minors. A watchdog report released last year found that neglect, abuse and other failures at the prison contributed to his death.
More than a decade ago, Epstein avoided federal charges by taking a plea deal in a South Florida case on accusations that he molested dozens of girls.
As part of the deal, Epstein pleaded guilty to state charges, including solicitation of prostitution. He registered as a sex offender and served 13 months in prison, but was allowed to take six days a week off to work in his office.
