Republicans on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee released 20,000 pages of documents from the estate of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on Wednesday, hours after Democrats on the committee released emails in which the disgraced financier alleged that President Trump “knew about the girls.”
Earlier Wednesday, Democrats on the committee released three emails invoking Trump in correspondence between the late Epstein and his accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, as well as author Michael Wolff.
The newly released files include spreadsheets, images of books relevant to Epstein’s case and correspondence between him and various associates.
The committee, chaired by Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) said Wednesday on the social platform X that “Democrats whine about ‘releasing the files,’ but they only cherry-pick when they have them to generate clickbait. You deserve the full truth.”
The emails released by Oversight Democrats “raise serious questions” about Trump’s “knowledge of Epstein’s horrific crimes,” the lawmakers said on X. One email from 2019 includes Epstein telling Wolf that “of course [Trump] knew about the girls as he asked [Maxwell] to stop.”
In another email from 2011, Epstein tells Maxwell that Trump is the “dog that hasn’t barked” and “spent hours at my house” with a victim of his sex-trafficking ring. And in 2015, Wolff told Epstein in an email to let Trump “hang himself” in response to the sex offender asking him about the then-Republican candidate being questioned by CNN about his relationship with Epstein.
“You can hang him in a way that potentially generates a positive benefit for you, or, if it really looks like he could win, you could save him, generating a debt,” Wolff added. “Of course, it is possible that, when asked, he’ll say Jeffrey is a great guy and has gotten a raw deal and is a victim of political correctness, which is to be outlawed in a Trump regime.”
In a Wednesday statement, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said, “the fact remains that President Trump kicked Jeffrey Epstein out of his club decades ago for being a creep to his female employees.”
Leavitt added that the emails “are nothing more than bad-faith efforts to distract from President Trump’s historic accomplishments, and any American with common sense sees right through this hoax and clear distraction from the government opening back up again.”
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