US President Donald Trump is alleged to have “spent hours” with one of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims, according to newly released emails.
Trump was named multiple times in private emails sent by convicted paedophile Epstein to sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell and to US journalist Michael Wolff.
The emails were released on Wednesday as part of a batch of 23,000 documents published by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee after Epstein’s estate was subpoenaed earlier this year.
An email from Epstein to Maxwell in April 2011 reads: “I want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is trump.. [Victim – name redacted] spent hours at my house with him ,, he has never once been mentioned. Police chief. etc. im 75 % there (sic)."
Maxwell responded: “I have been thinking about that…”
White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said on Wednesday that the unnamed person mentioned in the released emails is Virginia Giuffre, who had accused Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and other powerful men of sexually exploiting her as a teenager.
Giuffre died by suicide in April, and Andrew has always denied her allegations and said he does not recall meeting her.
Leavitt added 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 did not accuse Trump of any misconduct in her posthumous autobiography, Nobody’s Girl.
“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.
Leavitt also accused the Democrats of having “selectively leaked emails” to “create a fake narrative to smear President Trump".
“These stories are nothing more than bad-faith efforts to distract from President Trump’s historic accomplishments, and any American with common sense sees right through this hoax and clear distraction from the government opening back up again," she said.
The newly released emails also include a message in which Epstein claimed that Trump “knew about the girls," apparently referring to Trump’s previous claim that he banned Epstein from his Mar-a-Lago club for allegedly targeting young women who worked there.
"Trump said he asked me to resign, never a member ever. . of course he knew about the girls as he asked ghislaine to stop," Epstein wrote to Wolff months before his death in 2019.
Trump did not send or receive any of the emails, most of which pre-date his first presidency, and he has not been accused of any criminal wrongdoing in connection with Epstein or Ghislaine Maxwell.
Wolff told ITV News affiliate 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.”
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