Donald Trump “spent hours” at Jeffrey Epstein’s house with one of his victims, according to explosive new emails that suggest the president knew more about the sex offender’s conduct than he may have acknowledged.
Documents released by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee also reveal that Epstein explicitly stated Trump “knew about the girls as he asked Ghislaine to stop”—a reference to Epstein’s accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, who recruited victims as part of his sex trafficking operation.
The bombshell emails show that Epstein mentioned Trump by name multiple times in private correspondence over the last 15 years.
In one email to Maxwell, which was dated April 2, 2011, Epstein tells her: “i want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is trump.. (REDACTED) spent hours at my house with him ,, he has never once been mentioned. police chief. etc. im 75 % there.”
Maxwell responded: “I have been thinking about that…”
In another email, written to author Michael Wolff on January 31, 2019, Epstein seems to address Trump’s claim that he asked the sex offender to resign his membership at the president’s Mar-a-Lago Club.
“trump said he asked me to resign,” Epstein wrote, adding, “never a member ever. . of course he knew about the girls as he asked Ghislaine to stop.”
The president did not receive or send any of the messages, nor has he been accused of any criminal wrongdoing in connection with Epstein or Maxwell.
But the messages are certain to exacerbate tensions about the administration’s handling of the Epstein files and the decision by Trump’s Department of Justice to renege on a pledge to fully release them.
The White House has derided Wolff, the Trump biographer who is the co-host of the Daily Beast’s Inside Trump’s Head podcast, as a “lying sack of s---” but the email makes clear that he was in close communication with Epstein.
Wolff also wrote to Epstein on December 15, 2015 - the day of a debate in the Republican presidential primaries - asking him: “I hear CNN planning to ask Trump tonight about his relationship with you–either on air or in scrum afterwards.”
Epstein, according to the email, responded: “if we were able to craft an answer for him, what do you think it should be?”
Wolff replied: “I think you should let him hang himself. 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. 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.”
The emails were part of a larger tranche of documents from Epstein’s estate that Democrats on the Oversight Committee requested as part of its investigation into the disgraced financier.
Trump was a known associate of Epstein for years, but has repeatedly said he did not know anything about his crimes.
The sex predator died in a Manhattan jail in 2019 while awaiting trial for his crimes, while Maxwell was subsequently sentenced to 20 years in jail for her role in helping him recruit and abuse young girls.
One of those girls, the late Virginia Giuffre, was only 17 when she was befriended by Maxwell while working at Trump’s Mar-a-lago spa, something that the president claims led to his eventual falling out with Epstein.
“He stole her,” Trump told reporters in April.
But as the political scandal over the Epstein files escalated earlier this year, Maxwell was moved in July, without explanation, from her jail in Florida to a minimum security prison camp in Texas, where she has reportedly received access to a puppy, customized meals and other perks.
The transfer came days after Maxwell met with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, Trump’s former personal lawyer, where the pair discussed more than 100 people connected to Epstein—including the president himself.
In that meeting, Maxwell told Blanche she didn’t recall Trump ever being in Epstein’s house - contrary to what the emails now suggest - and “I never witnessed the president in any inappropriate setting in any way.”
“The president was never inappropriate with anybody. In the times that I was with him, he was a gentleman in all respects,” she said.
According to a whistleblower, Maxwell is now preparing to ask the president to commute her sentence.
The latest revelations come as the House returns on Wednesday to officially end the government shutdown, with attention likely to shift back to the Epstein matter.
One of the first orders of business will be to swear in Arizona Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva, who is expected to become the final signatory on a measure to force a vote on the release of the Epstein files.
“We won’t stop until we end this White House cover-up. Release the files, NOW,” Democrat Robert Garcia, a ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, wrote on X.
The White House and Republicans on the committee accused Democrats of creating a “false narrative” in a bid to “smear” the president.
The Daily Beast has reached out to Wolff and Maxwell’s attorney.
Wolff told CNN: “I don’t quite remember the context. But I was engaged then in an in-depth conversation with Epstein about his relationship with Trump and this seems to be part of that conversation.”
