Second batch of Epstein documents released: Key insights and takeways
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Many of the documents released by Republicans were email exchanges between Epstein and journalists with whom he had long-standing relationships.
A U.S. House Committee released 23,000 documents related to the Epstein files on Wednesday afternoon — a large number of them correspondence between convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his high-powered associates, as well as journalists.
It follows the three emails, in which Epstein mentioned U.S. President Donald Trump, made public by Democrats.
The Republicans’ response to the email release, which included a handful of exchanges written by Epstein claiming that Trump “knew about the girls” and referring to him as the “dog that hasn’t barked,” was to unveil a heap of documents to accuse the Democrats of publicizing select messages to make Trump look bad.
On Wednesday afternoon, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt accused the Democrats of running “another distraction campaign.”
Here are the key takeaways from the estate files released by the Republicans.
Trump and Epstein had close business ties as well as a personal friendship, but at some point, they fell out — before underage girls started to come forward to accuse Epstein of sexual abuse.
As shown in the documents, journalists sometimes reached out to Epstein, perhaps in an attempt to gain information on the allegations. One of those writers was Michael Wolff, who has written extensively about Trump. In a 2019 email to Wolff, Epstein mentioned that one of his best-known accusers, Virginia Giuffre, had worked at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club.
“She was the one who accused Prince Andrew,” Epstein wrote.
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