Overview
- Democratic investigators released three Epstein emails that reference Donald Trump, including a 2011 note saying a victim “spent hours in my house with him” and a 2019 message asserting Trump “knew about the girls.”
- One email was sent to Ghislaine Maxwell in 2011 and two to author Michael Wolff in 2015 and January 2019, with the 2015 exchange discussing how Trump might respond to media questions about Epstein.
- Committee staff redacted victim names before publication, and the messages come from a larger production of roughly 23,000 pages provided by the Epstein estate.
- House Democrats say the excerpts raise unanswered questions and are moving to force a vote to release the full archive, with a newly sworn-in member expected to provide the final signature needed.
- The White House and Trump allies reject the disclosures as selective and politically driven; no charges have been brought against Trump in the Epstein matter, and Maxwell has said she never saw misconduct by him.