What we know about the latest Epstein emails referencing Trump

US lawmakers have released more than 20,000 pages of documents from the estate of disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, some of which mention President Donald Trump.

On Wednesday morning, Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released three email exchanges, including correspondence between Epstein, who died in 2019 in prison, and his longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell, who is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex trafficking.

They also released emails between Epstein and author Michael Wolff, who wrote numerous books about Trump.

Within hours, House Republicans then released a massive amount of documents to counter what they called a Democratic effort to “cherry-pick” the documents. They also said it was an attempt to “create a false narrative aimed at slandering President Trump.”

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the emails were “selectively leaked” by House Democrats to “liberal media to create a false narrative aimed at defaming President Trump.”

“The fact remains that President Trump kicked Jeffrey Epstein out of his club decades ago because he was a creep to his female employees, including Giuffre,” she said.

Trump was a friend of Epstein’s for years, but the president said they had a falling out in the early 2000s, two years before Epstein’s first arrest. Trump has consistently denied any wrongdoing regarding Epstein.

The first email released by Democrats was from 2011 and concerned Epstein and Maxwell.

In it, Epstein wrote to Maxwell: “I want you to realize that this dog that didn’t bark is Trump… [VICTIM] I spent hours at home with him.”

Epstein goes on to write that Trump “was never mentioned,” including by a “police chief.”

Maxwell replied: “I thought about it…”

The victim’s name was redacted in the email released by Democrats, although the unredacted version is in the installment released by the committee. This shows the name “virignia”.

The White House said he was referring to the late Virginia Giuffre, a prominent Epstein accuser who died by suicide earlier this year. In a statement, the White House said Giuffre “repeatedly stated that President Trump was not involved in any wrongdoing and that he ‘could not have been more friendly’ with her in their limited interactions.”

Giuffre said in a 2016 deposition that she never saw Trump participate in abuse. And in a memoir published this year, she did not accuse the president of any wrongdoing.

When asked why the name was initially redacted, Rep. Robert Garcia — the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee — said the party would never release the victims’ names, consistent with the families’ wishes.

In exchanges with Wolff, Epstein discusses his ties to Trump, who was campaigning for president before his first term.

In a second email exchange released by Democrats, Wolff wrote to Epstein in 2015 to inform him that CNN planned to question Trump about their relationship, “either on-air or in scrums afterward.”

Epstein responds: “If we were able to offer him an answer, what do you think it should be? »

Wolff writes: “I think you should let him hang himself. If he says he didn’t go on the plane or home, then that gives you valuable political and public relations currency. You can hang him in a way that potentially generates a positive profit for you, or, if it really looks like he might win, you might save him, thus generating a debt.”

He adds: “Of course, it’s possible that when asked, he will say that Jeffrey is a great guy, that he got a brutal deal and that he is a victim of political correctness, which must be banned in a Trump regime.”

In another email from October 2016, days before the US presidential election, Wolff offered Epstein the opportunity for an interview that could “end” Trump.

“There is an opportunity to come forward this week and talk about Trump in a way that might earn you great sympathy and help put an end to him. Interested?” Wolff wrote to Epstein.

A third email released by Democrats is dated January 2019, during Trump’s first term.

In it, Epstein told Wolff, “Trump said he asked me to resign,” apparently referring to his membership in the president’s Mar-a-Lago club, adding that he was “never a member.”

Epstein adds that “of course he knew about the girls when he asked Ghislaine to stop.”

Responding to the post in a video he posted on Instagram, Wolff said: “Some of these emails are between Epstein and me, with Epstein discussing his relationship with Donald Trump.”

“I’ve been trying to talk about this story for a very long time,” he added.

Besides Trump, a published document also mentions Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, former Prince Andrew.

He responded to an email forwarded by Ghislaine Maxwell through Jeffrey Epstein in March 2011 regarding alleged sexual activity with a masseuse working for Epstein.

Andrew’s response read: “Hey there! What is all this? I don’t know! You have to SAY it please. It has NOTHING to do with me. I can’t take it anymore.”

Maxwell had forwarded a “right of reply” email from the Mail on Sunday March 4, making numerous allegations about Maxwell, Epstein and then-Prince Andrew.

The right-of-reply email states that a woman, whose name is redacted in the released document, was introduced to Andrew by the disgraced financier in 2001, at Maxwell’s London home, where she had sex with Andrew.

On March 6, 2011, the Mail on Sunday published an article including a photograph of Prince Andrew and Virginia Guiffre.

Andrew has always denied any wrongdoing and has not faced any charges.

Lord Peter Mandelson, who was sacked as UK ambassador to the US in September over his links to Epstein, is also mentioned in the new documents.

They show he was in contact with Epstein until 2016, according to the documents.

The last reported contact between the two men took place when the then business secretary took advice from Epstein over a banking deal in March 2010, just months after the US businessman was released from prison for child sex offences, as reported by the Daily Telegraph.

An email from Epstein to Lord Mandelson on November 6, 2015, shortly after the peer’s birthday, read: “63 years old. You succeeded.”

Lord Mandelson responded less than 90 minutes later: “Right. I decided to prolong my life by spending more of it in the United States.”

Epstein then responds “at Donald’s White House”, referring to the US presidential election scheduled for later in the week.

Epstein goes on to say “you were right to stay away from Andrew. I was right to stay with Rinaldo.” [sic]”, a reference to Reinaldo Avilda da Silva, now husband of Lord Mandelson.

Lord Mandelson has repeatedly said he regrets his relationship with Epstein. He declined to comment on the emails when contacted by the BBC.