'Victim spent hours at my house' with Trump: Explosive new Epstein emails revealed
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Footage of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein at a party at Mar-a-Lago in the 1990s (Image: Screengrab via NBC News)
Three explosive emails written by late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and shared directly with PBS News directly reference President Donald Trump.
The emails are among 23,000 documents Epstein’s estate released to the committee, ranking member Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA), wrote in a news release.
In one 2011 email about Trump to his confidante and fellow convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein wrote, "I want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is [T]rump. [Victim] spent hours at my house with him [...] he has never once been mentioned.”
To that, Maxwell replied, “I have been thinking about that[.]”
In a 2019 email to author Michael Wolff, Epstein talked about his membership at Trump's private Palm Beach country club Mar-a-Lago, saying, “Trump said he asked me to resign, never a member ever. Of course he knew about the girls as he asked [G]hislaine to stop.”
In 2015, Wolff emailed Epstein that he’d heard CNN planned to ask Trump about their friendship when CNN hosted the 5th Republican primary debate of the 2016 election cycle.
Epstein asked: “If we were able to craft an answer for him, what do you think it should be?”
Wolff replied, saying, “If he says he hasn’t been on the plane or to the house, then that gives you a valuable PR and political currency. 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.”
Trump was never asked about Epstein during the debate, according to a PBS News review of transcripts and video.
These emails are the latest in a bipartisan group of lawmakers' attempt to release the Epstein files, which will likely happen upon the seating of Arizona Democrat Adelita Grijalva, whose signature will be the 218th needed to force a vote on a bill that would direct the Department of Justice to release its full investigative files on Epstein.
“The more Donald Trump tries to cover-up the Epstein files, the more we uncover. These latest emails and correspondence raise glaring questions about what else the White House is hiding and the nature of the relationship between Epstein and the [p]resident,” Garcia wrote in Wednesday’s news release.
“The Department of Justice must fully release the Epstein files to the public immediately. The Oversight Committee will continue pushing for answers and will not stop until we get justice for the victims," Garcia added.