Jeffrey Epstein alleged Trump 'knew about the girls,' in email released by Democrats
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Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein said Donald Trump "knew about the girls," according to emails released on Wednesday by Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives.
The Democrats on the oversight committee of the House of Representatives cited exchanges between Epstein, and author Michael Wolff and Ghislaine Maxwell, a British socialite and Epstein's former girlfriend, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for charges including sex trafficking of a minor.
In an email to Maxwell in 2011, Epstein is said to have to written that an unidentified person "spent hours at my house with" Trump and that "he has never once been mentioned." The person's name is redacted, with House Democrats characterizing them as "Victim."
It's not clear if Epstein was referring to media coverage or what the reference to "mentioned" entails.
Maxwell responds, "I have been thinking about that."
The messages are part of a batch of 23,000 documents provided by Epstein's estate to the House's oversight committee.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt condemned the email release.
“The Democrats selectively leaked emails to the liberal media to create a fake narrative to smear President Trump,” Leavitt said in a statement. Leavitt alleged that the redacted victim in the emails was the late Virginia Giuffre, "who repeatedly said President Trump was not involved in any wrongdoing whatsoever."
Trump knew Epstein socially in the 1990s and into the early 2000s, but has denied any wrongdoing, pointing instead to others who were known to have associated with Epstein, including former president Bill Clinton.
The Democrats cited a separate email with Wolff in early 2019, in which Epstein is said to have emailed Wolff that Trump "knew about the girls as he asked Ghislaine to stop."
Epstein was subsequently indicted on federal charges that summer, but soon after died in a New York City prison cell. His death was ruled to be a suicide.
The Democrats on the panel said the emails "raise serious questions about Donald Trump and his knowledge of Epstein's horrific crimes."
With the record-long U.S. government shutdown appearing to be near its conclusion, Democrats are eager to resume their pressure campaign on the administration concerning Epstein.
On Wednesday, the House Speaker was due to swear in Democrat Adelita Grijalva, who won a special election in September to represent her district in Arizona.
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