Overview
- House Democrats made public three Epstein emails, including a 2011 note saying a victim spent hours with Donald Trump at Epstein’s home and a 2019 message asserting Trump “knew about the girls.”
- Republicans on the Oversight Committee responded by releasing what they said was roughly 20,000 more pages and accused Democrats of cherry-picking, while the White House called the disclosures a political smear.
- The records span 2011–2019 and include exchanges with journalists and other high-profile figures, such as emails with Michael Wolff and an invitation from Jared Kushner to a 2013 New York Observer event.
- Committee Republicans identified the redacted victim as Virginia Giuffre, who had previously said Trump was not involved in wrongdoing and described him as friendly in her memoir and deposition.
- Legal analysts note the emails are ambiguous and do not, on their own, establish criminal liability, as Democrats push for a House vote to release more nonclassified Epstein files.