Overview
- House Democratic members published select emails from 2011, 2015 and 2019 attributed to Jeffrey Epstein that claim President Trump knew about Epstein’s victims.
- One 2019 message to author Michael Wolff states Trump wanted Epstein off Mar-a-Lago’s rolls and "knew about the girls," adding that he asked Ghislaine Maxwell to "stop."
- Another email from 2011 asserts Trump spent several hours with an Epstein victim at the financier’s home, with the White House identifying her as Virginia Giuffre and citing her past statements that Trump did nothing wrong.
- The White House and Trump rejected the disclosures as a hoax and a selective leak, while House Republicans criticized the release and said they will publish 20,000 additional pages received from Epstein’s legatees.
- Democrats are advancing a petition with 218 backers, including four Republicans, that could force a House vote to compel the administration to make its Epstein files public.