The newly unearthed correspondence shows how Trump’s narrative about Epstein has evolved

Their content is cryptic and raises more questions than answers.

Yet the tranche of emails on the Jeffrey Epstein affair released by Democrats in the House of Representatives show enough contradictions between their references to Donald Trump and the US president’s own previous utterances on the subject to fan a fresh wave of speculation and guesswork.

An email sent by Epstein in April 2011 to Ghislaine Maxwell captures the intriguingly ambiguous tone.

“I want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is Trump,” Epstein writes.