Newly disclosed emails from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate allege that U.S. President Donald Trump was aware of women procured for Epstein’s sex trafficking operation.
The messages were released on Wednesday (local time) as part of a 20,000-page document dump by the US House Oversight Committee, which includes extensive correspondence between Epstein and his long-time associate Ghislaine Maxwell, now serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex trafficking.
One 2011 email shows Epstein telling Maxwell that a redacted victim “spent hours at my house with him,” referring to Trump. In another exchange from 2019 with journalist Michael Wolff, Epstein claimed Trump “knew about the girls as he asked (Ghislaine) to stop.” The documents also reveal Epstein’s harsh characterisations of Trump, calling him “borderline insane” and “f**king crazy,” and telling former Obama White House counsel Kathryn Ruemmler in 2018 that he “knew how dirty Donald is.”
Trump has repeatedly denied wrongdoing, insisting he severed ties with Epstein in the early 2000s. His campaign accused Democrats of weaponising the release to smear him, with White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt saying the documents “prove absolutely nothing.” Trump echoed that sentiment on Truth Social, calling the revelations “the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax” and accusing Democrats of trying to divert attention from the ongoing government shutdown.
