Epstein Email Claims Trump Knew About the Girls

Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released three emails referencing Trump; these included a 2011 email in which Epstein told his confidant Ghislaine Maxwell that Trump “spent hours” with a sex trafficking victim at Epstein’s home.

The statements appeared designed to raise new questions about Trump’s friendship with Epstein and what information he might have about what prosecutors called Epstein’s years-long effort to exploit underage girls. The Republican businessman-turned-politician has consistently denied any knowledge of Epstein’s crimes and said he ended their relationship years ago.

The victim’s name was redacted in the version of the email released by Democrats in 2011, but Republicans on the committee later said it was Virginia Giuffre who accused Epstein of arranging for sexual encounters with rich and powerful friends. Epstein committed suicide in a New York prison in 2019 while awaiting trial on federal charges.

The emails made public Wednesday are part of a group of 23,000 documents provided to the Oversight Committee by Epstein’s estate.

Giuffre says Trump ‘couldn’t have been friendlier’ Giuffre, who died earlier this year, long insisted that Trump was not among the men who victimized her.

In her testimony in court, she said under oath that she did not believe Trump had any knowledge of Epstein’s abuse of underage girls. And in her recently published memoirs, she described meeting Trump only once, when she was working as a spa attendant at the Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, and did not accuse him of wrongdoing.

Giuffre wrote that she was introduced to Trump by her father, who also worked at the club. She described Trump as a friendly person and said he offered to help her find a job babysitting her parents at the club.

Giuffre wrote that Trump “couldn’t be friendlier.”

Other members of Epstein’s household staff also said in affidavits that although Trump stopped by Epstein’s home, they did not see him engage in any inappropriate behavior.

Republicans say emails were released to smear Trump White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said Democrats are “selectively leaking emails” to “create a false narrative to smear President Trump.”

Writing on the Truth Social platform, Trump said Democrats are “trying to bring up the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax again because they will do anything to make people realize how bad they did on the government shutdown and many other issues.”

“There should be no deviation to Epstein or anything else, and the Republicans involved should only focus on opening up our Country and repairing the massive damage the Democrats have caused!” Trump wrote.

In July, Trump said he banned Epstein from Mar-a-Lago because his former friend was “taking in people who work for me,” including Giuffre. He said the women were “taken out of the spa, recruited by him, in other words, gone.”

“I said, ‘Listen, we don’t want you to take our people,'” Trump told reporters. When asked if Giuffre was one of the employees kidnapped by Epstein, the president demurred but later said Epstein “stole her.”

Shortly after Democrats released the Trump-related emails, committee Republicans responded by disclosing what they said were an additional 20,000 pages of documents from Epstein’s estate. Among them were emails that Epstein wrote over several years, often commenting — often negatively — about Trump’s rise in politics and corresponding with reporters.

Emails revive questions about Trump’s relationship with Epstein The disclosure resurfaces a story that shadowed Trump’s presidency over the summer, when the FBI and Justice Department suddenly announced they would not release additional documents that investigators had spent weeks reviewing, disappointing conspiracy theorists and online sleuths who had been waiting to see new revelations.

“Of course he knew about the girls when he asked Ghislaine to stop,” Epstein wrote about Trump in a 2019 email to journalist Michael Wolff, who has written extensively about Trump.

In an April 2, 2011 email to Maxwell, Epstein’s ex-girlfriend who is incarcerated on charges of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking, Epstein wrote: “I want you to understand that that dog that didn’t bark was Trump. Virginia spent hours with him at my house, not once was he mentioned as chief of police, etc. I’m 75% there.”

Maxwell replied the same day: “I’ve been thinking about it.”

Leavitt said the person named in the emails was Giuffre, who accused then-British Prince Andrew and other influential men of sexually abusing her in her youth and died by suicide in April. King Henry III, who was recently stripped of his titles and following weeks of pressure to take action over his relationship with Epstein, Andrew, who was evicted from the royal household by Charles, denied Giuffre’s claims and said he did not remember meeting her.

It was unclear what Epstein meant when he said Trump was a “no-bark” dog, but both he and Maxwell accused Giuffre in other correspondence of making up stories about her supposed sexual interactions with famous men.

Leavitt said in a statement that Giuffre “has repeatedly stated that President Trump was not involved in any wrongdoing and that she ‘couldn’t have been friendlier’ towards him in their limited interactions.”

“The fact remains that decades ago, President Trump kicked Jeffrey Epstein out of his club for intimidating his female employees, including Giuffre,” the statement 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.”

Messages seeking comment were left with Wolff, Maxwell’s attorney David Markus and representatives for Giuffre’s family.

Maxwell’s interview with the Justice Department Maxwell, who was interviewed by the Justice Department’s second-in-command in July, repeatedly denied witnessing any sexually inappropriate interactions involving Trump.

“I have actually never seen the President in any massage setting,” Maxwell told Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, according to a transcript of the interview. “I have never witnessed the President being in an inappropriate environment. The President has never behaved inappropriately with anyone. He was a gentleman in every respect during the time I was with him.”

Giuffre went public after the initial investigation resulted in an 18-month prison sentence in Florida for Epstein, who struck a secret deal to avoid federal investigation by pleading guilty rather than facing relatively minor charges of promoting prostitution at the state level. He was released in 2009.

In subsequent lawsuits, Giuffre said she was a young spa attendant at Mar-a-Lago when she was approached by Maxwell in 2000.

Lawyers for British socialite Maxwell have argued that she should never have been tried or convicted for her role in enticing young girls to be sexually abused by Epstein. Blanche is serving a 20-year sentence, although after her interview she was transferred from a low-security federal prison in Florida to a minimum-security prison camp in Texas.