Trump mentioned in Jeffrey Epstein emails
“I know how dirty Donald is,” notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein said of President Donald Trump. 2018 email thread It’s about Michael Cohen, Trump’s former personal attorney and fixer, admitting to campaign finance violations and agreeing to cooperate with a federal investigation into the president.
Epstein made the following statement about Trump: Kathryn RuemmlerA lawyer who served as White House counsel under former President Barack Obama. Ruemmler is currently chief legal officer and general counsel. Goldman Sachs.
The email series, which CNBC has not independently verified, is among more than 20,000 documents obtained from Epstein’s estate by Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, who disclosed them Wednesday.
Ruemmler emailed a link to Epstein on August 23, 2018. New York Times column Bret Stephens’ headline read: “Donald Trump’s High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The fundamental principle of impeachment is clear. What’s missing is courage.”
The article details Cohen’s guilty plea and its consequences for Trump, who was then in his first term in the White House. Cohen pleaded guilty to charges related to making and facilitating hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal before the 2016 presidential election.
“I thought you might find it interesting,” wrote Ruemmler, who had been friends with Trump for years before they had a falling out in the early 2000s.
In the same thread, he wrote: “It doesn’t matter if he has money or not. Not disclosing is the problem. Plus, the fact that he lied his ass off about it makes it clear he knows it’s illegal.”
“You see, I know how dirty Donald is,” Epstein said.
“My guess is that non-lawyers and business people have no idea what a mechanic flip-flop means,” Epstein added.
in another way email According to a copy of that document released Wednesday, Epstein wrote to author Michael Wolff that Trump “knows about girls.” April 2019 message It is alleged that it was between two men.
It is unclear what the phrase “he knew about the girls” means.
In another newly released email that Epstein wrote in April 2011 to his now-convicted accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein wrote: “I want you to understand that the dog that doesn’t bark is trump.”
In the same email, Epstein added that a person he identified as the Democrats’ victim, whose name was redacted in the email, “spent hours at my house” with Trump.
“Not once was he mentioned,” Epstein added to this message.
It’s unclear what Epstein meant in the email that said “dog that doesn’t bark.”
In an email exchange in December 2015, when Trump was seeking the Republican nomination for the White House, Wolff wrote to Epstein: “I hear CNN plans to ask Trump about his relationship with you tonight, on or after the air.”
Epstein replied: “If we could come up with an answer for him, what do you think it would be?”
Wolff replied: “I think you should let him hang himself. If he says he didn’t go on the plane or go home, that will save you some valuable public relations and political money.”
“You can potentially hang it up for a positive benefit for you, or if it really looks like it could win, you can bail it out by creating a loan,” Wolff added. Of course, it’s possible that when asked, Jeffrey would say that he was a great guy, that he got a raw deal, and that he was a victim of political correctness; “This too will be banned under the Trump regime.”
Trump has denied knowing about Epstein’s sexual abuse of underage girls and women. The president has never been accused of misconduct in relation to Epstein.
The announcement came two days after the Democrats’ election. House Judiciary Committee “The tip information provided to the Committee also indicates that Ghislaine Maxwell is working to file a ‘Referral for Amendment’ with the Trump Administration,” the statement said.
Maxwell is serving a 20-year prison sentence for crimes related to enabling underage girls to be abused by Epstein.
“Democrats selectively leaked emails to liberal media to create a false narrative to smear President Trump,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement Wednesday.
“The ‘anonymous victim’ named in these emails Virginia Giuffre“He is a person who has repeatedly said that President Trump was not involved in any wrongdoing and that he ‘couldn’t have been friendlier’ towards him in their limited interactions,” Leavitt said.
“The fact remains that decades ago President Trump kicked Jeffrey Epstein out of his club for intimidating his female employees, including Giuffre,” 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.”
Giuffre died by suicide in April.
CNBC requested comment from Maxwell’s lawyer about the emails.
Epstein, 66, killed himself in a Manhattan jail in August 2019, weeks after he was arrested on federal child sex trafficking charges.
Numerous women said that Epstein sexually abused them when they were underage girls or young women.
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee said the emails they obtained raise “serious questions” about Trump’s relationship with Epstein.
The three Trump-related emails are among thousands written by Epstein and obtained by Democrats.
“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 Representative Robert Garcia, a California Democrat who is the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee.
“The Department of Justice must immediately make the full Epstein files public,” Garcia said. “The Oversight Committee will continue to press for answers and will not rest until there is justice for victims.”
Trump and the Justice Department have been criticized for months for failing to follow through on promises by Trump administration officials to release criminal investigation files on Epstein.
Trump said in July that he kicked Epstein out of his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida and cut ties with him years ago because he “stole people who worked for me.”
Trump said Epstein kidnapped at least one more Mar-a-Lago employee after he was warned not to do it again.
The president has repeatedly called demands that authorities release the so-called Epstein files a “Democratic hoax.”
— CNBC’s Laya Neelakandan contributed to this story.
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