Overview
- In a 2011 email to Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein wrote that a victim “spent hours at my house with” Donald Trump and called Trump “the dog that hasn’t barked.”
- In a 2019 email to author Michael Wolff, Epstein claimed, “Of course he knew about the girls as he asked Ghislaine to stop,” without clarifying what Trump allegedly knew.
- The White House dismissed the disclosures as a partisan smear, and House Republicans countered Democrats’ limited release by publishing what they said were roughly 20,000 additional pages from Epstein’s estate.
- News outlets and legal experts note the emails are ambiguous and do not allege criminal conduct by the president, stressing that any claim would require further corroboration.
- Republicans identified the redacted victim as Virginia Giuffre, who had testified she did not believe Trump knew of Epstein’s abuses and described cordial, non-accusatory interactions before her death earlier this year.