U.S. lawmakers have made public more than 20,000 pages of documents from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein — the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender — including several emails that
reference former President Donald Trump.
The documents, released Wednesday, include three email exchanges published by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee. Among them are messages between Epstein and his longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell, now serving a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking, as well as correspondence with author Michael Wolff, known for his books on Trump.
Within hours, House Republicans countered by releasing the full trove of Epstein-related files, accusing Democrats of attempting to “cherry-pick” materials to construct what they called a “fake narrative to slander President Trump.”
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt echoed that claim, accusing Democrats of leaking select documents to “liberal media” outlets. “The fact remains that President Trump kicked Jeffrey Epstein out of his club decades ago for being a creep to his female employees, including Giuffre,” Leavitt said.
Trump and Epstein were known to be friends during the 1990s, often seen together at social events. However, Trump has said the two had a falling out in the early 2000s — several years before Epstein’s first arrest. The former president has consistently denied any involvement in Epstein’s criminal activities.
The Epstein–Maxwell Emails
One of the key exchanges released by Democrats dates back to 2011. In it, Epstein wrote 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 continued, noting that Trump “has never once been mentioned,” even by a “police chief.” Maxwell replied:
“I have been thinking about that…”
In the Democrats’ release, the alleged victim’s name was redacted, but the unredacted version—later included in the broader document dump—shows the name “Virginia.”
The White House identified her as the late Virginia Giuffre, one of Epstein’s most prominent accusers, who died by suicide earlier this year. In a statement, officials noted that Giuffre had “repeatedly said President Trump was not involved in any wrongdoing whatsoever and ‘couldn’t have been friendlier’ to her in their limited interactions.”
Giuffre previously testified in a 2016 deposition that she never saw Trump engage in any abuse. In her memoir, published earlier this year, she also did not accuse him of misconduct.
When asked about the initial redaction of her name, Representative Robert Garcia, the leading Democrat on the Oversight Committee, said the decision was made to protect victims’ identities. “We will never release the names of victims, in line with the wishes of their families,” Garcia said. Photo by Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, Wikimedia commons.
