Democrats have released emails from Jeffrey Epstein that, according to them, raise new questions about President Donald Trump's connections to the convicted sex offender. The White House dismisses it as an attempt to smear the president.
During Trump's election campaign, he was clear that he wanted to release documents related to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, a promise that was withdrawn after he took office in the White House. This led to strong criticism among voters and political commentators who claimed that Trump was trying to cover up the documents.
Democrats then demanded access to the investigation documents themselves and are currently reviewing thousands of documents in the investigation.
On Wednesday, Democrats released email conversations from the investigation in which Trump is mentioned, which suggest that the president knew about the crimes, according to Reuters.
Spent hours with victim
The first email that Democrats released is from 2011 and is between Epstein and Maxwell, in which a victim, whose name is redacted in the public material, is mentioned.
In it, Epstein writes to Maxwell: "I want you to realize that that dog that hasn't barked is Trump.. [VICTIM] spent hours at my house with him".
Epstein continues by writing that Trump "has never once been mentioned", not even by a 'police chief'.
Maxwell responded: "I've been thinking about that..."
In an email from 2019 to author Michael Wolff, Epstein wrote that Trump "knew about the girls", although it's not clear what the phrase specifically referred to. In another email from the same year, Epstein stated that Trump "came to my house many times" and "never got a massage."
The latter email was part of a larger collection of documents released later on Wednesday by a Republican-led congressional committee. In total, it involves 20,000 Epstein-related documents in which Trump's name appears frequently, often in connection with his political career or allegations of sexual behavior.
Smear campaign
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt claims that Democrats are trying to smear the president by, among other things, deliberately concealing the identity of the victim mentioned in the emails. She states that it concerns Virginia Giuffre, who died by suicide in April. In the autobiography published after Giuffre's death, Trump is described in positive terms, and no accusations are directed at him.
— These emails prove absolutely nothing other than the fact that President Trump did nothing wrong, Leavitt said on Wednesday.
Donald Trump is not suspected of anything in connection with Epstein.
