Publish thousands of heritage documents Jeffrey Epstein Replace the president Donald Trump In the middle of a political storm Washington. Files – published by Democrats and Republicans in House Oversight Committee– Includes private emails in which the financier repeatedly mentions Trump over more than a decade. They do not provide any evidence of any crime on the part of the president, but they renew doubts about the nature of their relationship.
The emails revealed that Trump “spent hours” at Epstein’s home with a sex trafficking victim
Democrats first released three emails that Epstein sent to his then-partner Ghislaine Maxwell And the writer Michael Wolf. In one, dated April 2011, Epstein calls Trump “the dog that didn’t bark” and claims a woman — identified by Republicans as the survivor. Virginia Giuffre“He spent hours at my house with him.” Maxwell responded: “I was thinking about that…” Although Giuffre never accused Trump of wrongdoing, the conversation once again raised questions about how much the then-business mogul knew about Epstein’s criminal activities.
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Another email, dated January 2019, intensified the controversy. In it, Epstein writes to Wolfe to respond to the president’s account that he fired him Mar-a-Lago. “Trump said he asked me to resign,” she notes, before adding: “I was not a member at all… Of course he knew about the girls, because he asked Ghislaine to stop.” the The white house He asserts that Trump vetoed Epstein because he is a “disgusting man,” and the president himself has argued that Epstein “stole” young employees from the club’s spa.
For his part, Wolff appears at various times as a kind of political advisor to Epstein. In the 2015 exchange, when CNN Epstein planned to ask the then-Republican nominee about his relationship with the financier, so Wolff asked how Trump should respond. The author suggests that he would be “allowed to expose himself” if he denied being on the plane or at Epstein’s home, noting that such a response could become a “valuable bargaining chip” in terms of public relations and political strategy.
At the same time, the publication of a much larger collection – 23,000 documents issued by the Republican majority – expanded the political influence of the issue. Among those emails, in 2017, Epstein described Trump as “on the verge of madness,” and in 2018 he said, “I know how corrupt Donald is.” In other interviews, he asserts that he can show pictures of “Donald and bikini-clad girls in my kitchen” and goes so far as to claim that in the 1990s he “gave” the then businessman to a 20-year-old girlfriend.
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the The white house Underestimating the importance of the material. press secretary Caroline Levitt He stated that the emails “prove absolutely nothing” and accused Democrats of creating a “false narrative.” For his part, Trump stressed that “the Democrats are trying to revive a charade Jeffrey EpsteinTo distract from the government shutdown and pressure Republican lawmakers to block any attempt to force full release of the files: “Only a very bad or stupid Republican would fall into this trap,” he wrote on social media.
the House of Representatives A vote will be taken next week on a resolution to claim Ministry of Justice Full disclosure about the Epstein dossier. Although any law must also pass through Senate The Republican-controlled episode, which requires Trump’s signature, shows how the legacy of the financier, who died in prison in 2019, continues to cast a long shadow over American politics.
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