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Epstein Emails Naming Trump Fuel Fight in Congress as House Sets Vote to Force DOJ Disclosure

A bipartisan discharge petition has triggered a House vote next week to require the Justice Department to publish unclassified Epstein files.

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Prince Andrew, from left, Virginia Giuffre and Ghislaine Maxwell pictured inside Maxwell’s London townhouse in March 2001. "I asked Epstein to take our picture with my disposable camera. Hours later, I was forced to have sex with the prince," Giuffre writes in her posthumous memoir.
From left, U.S. President Donald Trump, former model Melania Knauss, Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell pose together at the Mar-a-Lago club, Palm Beach, Florida, February 12, 2000.

Overview

  • House Democrats released selected emails from Epstein’s estate referencing President Trump, while Republicans posted more than 20,000 pages from the broader trove now under review.
  • The emails include a 2011 message to Ghislaine Maxwell saying Trump spent hours at Epstein’s house with a victim and a 2019 note to author Michael Wolff claiming Trump “knew about the girls.”
  • Legal experts caution the messages do not by themselves establish criminal wrongdoing, and committee releases redacted victim names for privacy.
  • The White House called the disclosures politically motivated, identified the unnamed victim as Virginia Giuffre, and noted she previously said she saw no wrongdoing by Trump.
  • Trump labeled the disclosures a “hoax” on social media and said he would ask the Justice Department and Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate Epstein’s ties to figures including Bill Clinton.