The US House Oversight Committee has published roughly 20,000 pages of documents from the sex offender’s estate
US Democrats have released an email in which convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein claimed that President Donald Trump was aware of women procured for sex trafficking.
The email is part of some 20,000 pages of documents from Epstein’s estate published by the US House Oversight Committee on Wednesday. The documents include correspondence between Epstein and his close associate Ghislaine Maxwell, who is currently serving a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking and related offenses.
In a 2011 email, Epstein wrote to Maxwell that a victim, whose name was redacted, “spent hours at my house with him,” referring to Trump. In a 2019 email to journalist Michael Wolff, Epstein said Trump “knew about the girls as he asked (Ghislaine) to stop.”
The documents show Epstein referenced Trump multiple times, calling him “borderline insane,” a “maniac,” and “f**king crazy.” In a 2018 email to Kathryn Ruemmler, an Obama-era White House counsel, Epstein said, “I know how dirty Donald is.”
Trump has said he ended his friendship with Epstein in the early 2000s and accused Democrats of using the case to slander him and his administration. White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said the newly released documents “prove absolutely nothing, other than the fact that President Trump did nothing wrong.”
On his Truth Social platform, Trump wrote that Democrats were using “the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax” to distract the public from the ongoing government shutdown. “There should be no deflections to Epstein or anything else, and any Republicans involved should be focused only on opening up our Country, and fixing the massive damage caused by the Democrats!” he added.
Interest in the case was renewed earlier this year after federal agencies confirmed that Epstein’s 2019 death in a Manhattan jail, ruled a suicide, involved no foul play. Investigators also found no evidence that Epstein maintained a ‘client list.’
