Topline
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released emails by Jeffrey Epstein on Wednesday in which he appears to suggest President Donald Trump had at least some knowledge of his sexual abuse of women, sparking new speculation about Trump’s relationship with the late financier.
Jeffrey Epstein and now-President Donald Trump at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, in 1997.
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Key Facts
House Democrats released three email exchanges, provided by Epstein’s estate, in which Epstein mentions Trump, which were with associate Ghislaine Maxwell and writer Michael Wolff and were sent between 2011 and 2019.
The emails, released as part of the House Oversight Committee’s broader investigation into the Epstein case, do not explicitly say Trump had any involvement with Epstein’s abuse—and suggest Trump asked Maxwell “to stop”—but raise new questions about whether the president had knowledge of the financier’s sex-trafficking scheme.
Trump has long denied any wrongdoing in connection with Epstein—whom he was friends with in the 1990s and early 2000s before having a falling out—and White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt claimed Wednesday that House Democrats “selectively leaked emails to the liberal media to create a fake narrative to smear President Trump.”
Leavitt also claimed the unnamed victim Epstein said spent time with Trump is Virginia Giuffre, who has said she met Trump but did not accuse him of any wrongdoing, and Leavitt argued the emails “are nothing more than bad-faith efforts to distract from President Trump’s historic accomplishments.”
2011 email exchange between Jeffrey Epstein and associate Ghislaine Maxwell.
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2019 email exchange between Jeffrey Epstein and writer Michael Wolff.
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2015 email exchange between Jeffrey Epstein and writer Michael Wolff.
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Further Reading
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2025/11/12/here-are-jeffrey-epsteins-emails-about-trump/
