President Donald Trump “knew about the girls” and “spent hours” with one of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims at the financier’s home, Epstein alleged in one of many newly released emails between 2011 and 2019 —which the White House blasts as all part of the Epstein “hoax”—the latest documentation of a connection between the two men that stretches back decades.
Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein at a Victoria’s Secret Angels event on April 9, 1997. (Photo by Thomas Concordia/Getty Images)
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Timeline
From left, American real estate developer Donald Trump and his girlfriend (and future wife), former model Melania Knauss, financier (and future convicted sex offender) Jeffrey Epstein, and British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell pose together at the Mar-a-Lago club, Palm Beach, Florida, February 12, 2000. (Photo by Davidoff Studios/Getty Images)
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Crucial Quote
Why Were The Latest Emails Released Now?
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released more than a dozen emails provided by Epstein’s estate Wednesday, hours before Adelita Grijalva, D-Ariz., could trigger a House vote on the release of the federal government’s files into Epstein when she is set to finally be sworn in as a representative. Grijalva is expected to provide the final signature needed to force a vote on legislation to release the files. The legislation would also need to be approved by the Senate and signed into law by Trump before the files could be released, however.
Chief Critic
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt accused House Democrats of “selectively” leaking the emails to the “liberal media to create a fake narrative to smear President Trump.” Trump accused Democrats of “trying to bring up the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax again because they’ll do anything at all to deflect on how badly they’ve done on the Shutdown,” referring to the record-setting federal government shutdown that reached its 43rd day Wednesday.
Portrait of American financier Jeffrey Epstein (left) and real estate developer Donald Trump as they pose together at the Mar-a-Lago estate, Palm Beach, Florida on February 22, 1997. (Photo by Davidoff Studios/Getty Images)
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Key Background
Epstein died by suicide in 2019 in his Manhattan jail cell while awaiting trial on federal charges of sex trafficking minors to his wealthy friends and associates. Trump is among a long list of Epstein’s high-profile associates, including billionaire Les Wexner, Prince Andrew and former President Bill Clinton. Many of Trump’s MAGA allies have pushed conspiracy theories about Epstein through the years, including that he was killed, rather than died by suicide, and kept an alleged list of high-profile clients. The Justice Department has said no such list exists and reiterated that Epstein died by suicide.
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