Overview
- Three emails from 2011, 2015 and 2019 attributed to Jeffrey Epstein were released, including messages to Ghislaine Maxwell and author Michael Wolff that reference Donald Trump.
- In one email, Epstein wrote that a person identified by lawmakers as a victim "passed hours in my house" with Trump, and in another he said, "Of course he knew of the girls, since he asked Ghislaine to stop."
- The documents come from roughly 23,000 pages obtained by the House Oversight Committee, with victims’ names redacted and key context still unknown because only excerpts have been made public.
- The White House called the release a selective leak designed to defame the president, and Trump has repeatedly denied wrongdoing and has not been charged in connection with Epstein’s crimes.
- House Democrats are seeking a procedural vote to force publication of the full Epstein archive after the Justice Department said earlier this year it had no further material to release.