A photo of President Donald Trump and slow sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has been unofficially installed in bus shelters. (Leon Neal/Getty Images).
WASHINGTON – House Democrats investigating slow sex offender Jeffrey Epstein released emails Wednesday showing that President Donald Trump knew about the financier’s abuse of underage girls as far back as 2011.
Troika emails Released by Democrats to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform were among 23,000 pages of documents provided to the committee by Epstein’s estate, according to Democrats.
In a 2011 correspondence with now-convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein wrote that Trump “spent hours at my house” with the victim, whose name was redacted from the email. In the same email, Epstein refers to Trump as “the dog that didn’t bark.”
In an email exchange between Epstein and journalist Michael Wolff in 2015, Wolff tells Epstein that he heard CNN asking Trump about his relationship with the financier. The two exchange information on how to hypothetically “craft a response” to Trump.
Wolff responds: “If he claims he wasn’t on the plane or at home, that means you’re gaining valuable (public relations) and political currency.”
In a January 2019 email, also to Wolff, Epstein referred to the victim’s name, redacted to indicate she was at Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s Florida estate and private club, and wrote: “Trump said he asked me to resign, I was never a member. He obviously knew about the girls when he asked Ghislaine to stop.”
Emails raise more questions, top Dem says
House Oversight Committee ranking member Robert Garcia said in a statement Wednesday that the emails “raise glaring questions about what else the White House is hiding and the nature of the relationship between Epstein and the president.”
“The Department of Justice must immediately make the Epstein files fully available to the public. The Oversight Committee will continue to press for answers and will not rest until we obtain justice for the victims,” ​​Garcia continued.
Within hours of the Democratic committee releasing the emails, GOP leaders issued a miniature press release linking to “an additional 20,000 pages of documents received from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate” located on Google Drive and the Dropbox cloud.
The White House did not immediately respond to States Newsroom’s request for comment.
Congress investigates after FBI withdraws
The bipartisan commission’s investigation began shortly after the FBI released its July report note stating that the Justice Department would not release any further information about the government’s sex trafficking investigation into Epstein.
Epstein was found dead, apparently of suicide, in August 2019 in a Manhattan cell where he was awaiting federal trial.
The FBI’s announcement that the agency would not release further details set off a firestorm of demands for all investigative materials, even among Trump supporters in Congress and influential members of the far-right media. including Megyn Kelly and the slow Charlie Kirk.
Trump campaigned on the release of the so-called “Epstein files.”
A bipartisan effort in the House aims to force a vote on releasing the records as soon as this week after House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., administers the oath of office to Arizona Democrat Adelita Grijalva.
Grijalva promised to give his final signature to a discharge petition from Reps. Thomas Massie, D-Ky., and Ro Khanna, D-Calif., which would force a majority vote on the bill to release all Epstein investigation files.
Massie and Khanna hosted the event press conference on Capitol Hill in early September, which featured several women who told stories of abuse at the hands of Epstein and Maxwell.
Since the FBI memo, Trump’s past relationship with Epstein has come under a microscope.
The president sued The Wall Street Journal for reporting on the 50th anniversary birthday card Trump allegedly gave to Epstein. The card included a cryptic message and a doodle of a naked woman with Trump’s signature imitating pubic hair.
Journal too reported that Attorney General Pam Bondi informed the president in May that his name was in the Epstein case file. The context in which his name appeared is unclear.
Trump denied these reports.
