Newly released emails from Epstein’s estate reignite scrutiny of the US president’s old links to the sex offender
The release of previously unseen emails sent by convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has thrust Donald Trump back into the center of the long-running Epstein controversy that has plagued his administration for months, inflamed parts of his own political base and offered Democrats an ongoing line of political attack.
On Wednesday, Democrats on the House oversight and government reform committee released email exchanges from 2011, 2015 and 2019 that they say were provided by the estate of the late Epstein, who died by suicide in federal prison in 2019 while awaiting trial on federal charges of sex-trafficking minors.
In the three released exchanges, the disgraced financier, Epstein, describes the US president as the “dog that hasn’t barked”, alleges that Trump had “spent hours” at his home with one of Epstein’s victims – whose name is redacted – and claims that “of course” Trump “knew about the girls as he had asked Ghislaine to stop”, referring to Ghislaine Maxwell. Maxwell was Epstein’s longtime associate who was jailed in 2022 for helping Epstein abuse girls and is currently serving a 20-year sentence for sex-trafficking crimes.
