Overview
- The public release includes a 2011 email to Ghislaine Maxwell saying a victim "spent hours" at Epstein's home with Donald Trump and a 2019 note asserting he "knew about the girls."
- The White House called the disclosure a partisan smear, with Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt saying the emails "prove absolutely nothing" about wrongdoing by the president.
- Committee Republicans responded by releasing roughly 20,000 additional pages from Epstein's estate, part of a larger production totaling tens of thousands of records to Congress.
- The White House identified the redacted victim as Virginia Giuffre, who had previously testified she did not believe Trump knew of Epstein's crimes and described him as friendly; she died earlier this year.
- Maxwell told the Justice Department she never witnessed inappropriate conduct by Trump, and lawmakers are moving toward a House vote to compel broader disclosure of Epstein-related files.