New Epstein emails and files: What do they reveal about Trump?

US President Donald Trump’s relationship with the late, convicted enactment offender Jeffrey Epstein has erstwhile again travel nether scrutiny, aft US lawmakers released much than 20,000 pages of documents from Epstein’s property connected Wednesday, including immoderate that notation Trump’s name.

US Democrats successful the House Oversight Committee – a national assemblage that oversees authorities functions – released email exchanges betwixt Epstein and immoderate of his associates successful which the erstwhile financier appeared to suggest that Trump knew astir his behaviour towards young girls.

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Hours later, US Republicans released 20,000 documents from Epstein’s property successful a bid to antagonistic the Democrats’ email releases, claiming the Democrats had “cherry-picked” documents to overgarment a mendacious communicative against Trump. The Republicans’ documents besides notation Trump’s name, but these references are chiefly successful regards to the US president’s governmental career.

Trump, who had a 15-year-long relationship with Epstein, denies each wrongdoing and has repeatedly stated that helium was ne'er progressive successful – oregon adjacent knew astir – Epstein’s intersexual crimes.

Epstein died by termination successful situation successful 2019 aft being arrested connected charges of enactment trafficking of minors. He had antecedently been imprisoned successful 2008 aft pleading blameworthy astatine a tribunal successful Florida to engaging successful prostitution of minors, but was released from situation successful 2009 aft completing his sentence.

While immoderate documents relating to the prosecution of Epstein have been made public, the US Justice Department has repeatedly refused to merchandise others, raising eyebrows – not slightest among Trump’s ain “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) base.

In June 2025, Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk claimed connected his societal media level X that “Trump is successful the Epstein files” and said that was “the existent crushed they [the files] person not been made public”. But the Justice Department has said the existent crushed for not releasing the files is to support the privateness of the victims.

Next week, the US House of Representatives will vote connected releasing each remaining sealed tribunal files pertaining to Epstein.

Here’s what we know:

What bash the emails released by Democrats reveal?

At slightest 3 emails were made nationalist by Democrats connected the House Oversight Committee connected Wednesday.

Epstein and Maxwell: One email is an April 2011 speech betwixt Epstein and his erstwhile girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, who was convicted of enactment trafficking successful December 2021 and is presently serving a 20-year situation sentence. In the email, Epstein told her that Trump had “spent hours” astatine his location with 1 victim.

Epstein wrote: “i privation you to recognize that that canine that hasn’t barked is trump. [redacted sanction of victim] spent hours astatine my location with him .. helium has ne'er erstwhile been mentioned.”

Maxwell responded, “I person been reasoning astir that…”

The sanction of the unfortunate was not released by the Democrats, but successful the cache of documents released connected Wednesday by the House Oversight Committee, the sanction is shown arsenic Virginia Giuffre, who sued disgraced Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor (formerly Prince Andrew of the United Kingdom, earlier helium was stripped of his royal titles past month) for rape and intersexual battle earlier she died by termination successful April this year.

In a statement sent to US media connected Wednesday, the White House besides confirmed that the unfortunate was Giuffre.

“The ‘unnamed victim’ referenced successful these emails is the precocious Virginia Giuffre, who repeatedly said President Trump was not progressive successful immoderate wrongdoing whatsoever and ‘couldn’t person been friendlier’ to her successful their constricted interactions,” White House property caput Karoline Leavitt told reporters connected Wednesday.

“The information remains that President Trump kicked Jeffrey Epstein retired of his nine decades agone for being a creep to his pistillate employees, including Giuffre,” she added.

Epstein and Wolff: Epstein and US writer Michael Wolff, who has written 4 books astir Trump, besides exchanged emails that included details of their strategising against Trump, according to the documents released by the Democrats.

In December 2015, 7 years aft Epstein had pleaded blameworthy to his crimes – which included engaging successful prostitution with a insignificant nether the property of 18 – Wolff wrote to Epstein: “I perceive CNN is readying to inquire Trump contiguous astir his narration with you – either connected aerial oregon successful scrum afterwards.”

Epstein replied: “If we were to trade an reply for him, what bash you deliberation it should be?”

Wolff responded: “I deliberation you should fto him bent himself. If helium says helium hasn’t been connected the level oregon to the house, past that gives you a invaluable PR and governmental currency. You tin bent him successful a mode that perchance generates a affirmative payment for you, or, if it truly looks similar helium could win, you could prevention him, generating a debt. Of course, it is imaginable that, erstwhile asked, he’ll accidental Jeffrey is simply a large feline and has gotten a earthy woody and is simply a unfortunate of governmental correctness, which is to beryllium outlawed successful a Trump regime.”

In a abstracted email successful October 2016, Wolff tried to transportation Epstein to springiness an interview, writing: “There’s an accidental to travel guardant this week and speech astir Trump successful specified a mode that could garner you large sympathy and assistance decorativeness him. Interested?” The email was written conscionable earlier Trump’s statesmanlike predetermination triumph successful November 2016. It is not wide if Epstein responded.

In different email successful 2019, Epstein wrote to Wolff that Trump “knew astir the girls arsenic helium asked Ghislaine to stop”, referring to Maxwell.

Responding to the emails released by the Democrats connected Wednesday, Wolff told the Daily Beast podcast Inside Trump’s Head precocious connected Wednesday that helium was “nice” to Epstein to effort to recognize him amended and get “an wholly antithetic view” of Trump.

Wolff’s books astir Trump see the 2018 bestseller Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, which revealed backstories of discord wrong his medication during his archetypal word arsenic president.

“I’m the idiosyncratic who sees this, this elemental story, Donald Trump,” Wolff told The Daily Beast. “I’ve gone done this with Epstein heavy into the background. Donald Trump is the champion person of, you know, evil. He is the champion person of a deeply, profoundly diabolical person.”

Wolff said that helium besides hoped to transportation Epstein to travel guardant and talk up astir what helium knew astir Trump. “‘Why don’t you spell nationalist with these pictures? Why don’t you spell public? Let maine assistance you spell nationalist successful telling your communicative astir Donald Trump’,” Wolff claimed helium told Epstein.

But helium said helium believed Epstein was acrophobic of Trump. “Epstein was fearful astir what would hap to him if Donald Trump became the president of the United States,” Wolff told the Daily Beast.

The writer added that the crushed helium was trying to person Epstein to travel guardant was due to the fact that helium “saw then” and continues to “see and spot each time now, that Donald Trump was unfit to beryllium the president of the United States”.

Separately, connected October 23 this year, the writer claimed successful a suit helium filed astatine the New York Supreme Court successful Manhattan against First Lady Melania Trump that she had threatened to writer him for much than $1bn if helium didn’t retract his statements linking Epstein to her.

Wolff had claimed that Melania Trump was “very involved” successful Epstein’s societal circle, done which she met her aboriginal husband, Donald Trump.

Wolff added that the president and his woman “have made a signifier of threatening those who talk against them”.

A recently released email from disgraced precocious financier and enactment offender Jeffrey Epstein, referencing his erstwhile companion Ghislaine Maxwell and US President Donald Trump, is seen successful this handout representation released by Democrats connected the House Oversight Committee successful Washington, DC, the US [File: Handout via Reuters]

What person the responses to the emails been?

Trump instantly dismissed the emails arsenic a “hoax” successful a societal media post.

“The Democrats are trying to bring up the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax again due to the fact that they’ll bash thing astatine each to deflect connected however severely they’ve done connected the Shutdown, and truthful galore different subjects,” helium wrote connected his Truth Social level connected Wednesday afternoon.

Trump’s property caput Leavitt besides told journalists astatine the White House connected Wednesday that “these emails beryllium perfectly thing different than the information that President Trump did thing wrong”.

US Democrat Ro Khanna, however, told the Breaking Points podcast that “this full Epstein people needs to go”.

“The contented successful American authorities from near oregon close is: Are you for working, mean Americans? Or are you for this Epstein class? And this is what’s truthful important astir those emails. It’s not conscionable affluent and almighty men who whitethorn person abused and raped young girls; it’s a batch of affluent and almighty radical who knew that the maltreatment was going connected and did thing astir it.”

The email merchandise besides took spot connected the time that Democratic Representative Adelita Grijalva was sworn successful by House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson.

“It’s past clip for Congress to reconstruct its relation arsenic a cheque and equilibrium connected this administration,” Grijalva told section media.

What are Republicans saying?

Trump has warned members of the Republican Party against focusing attraction connected the Democrats’ emails.

“There should beryllium nary deflections to Epstein oregon thing else, and immoderate Republicans progressive should beryllium focused lone connected opening up our Country, and fixing the monolithic harm caused by the Democrats!” Trump said connected Truth Social connected Wednesday.

US Republican members of the House Oversight Committee, however, responded to the merchandise of the emails with the merchandise of astir 20,000 Epstein-related documents obtained from his estate, conscionable hours later.

These documents uncover email exchanges betwixt Epstein and his associates successful which they sermon Trump’s statesmanlike vocation and his whereabouts.

In 1 email from December 2018 to erstwhile Treasury Secretary Lawrence H Summers, Epstein called Trump “borderline insane” and past spoke astir lawyer Alan Dershowitz, his defence lawyer astatine the time. “dersh, a fewer feet further from the borderline but not by much”. It is unclear what these comments are related to.

Summers replied: “Will trump ace into insanity?”

Epstein responded: “This is not a caller improvement for him. successful the past helium was told not to travel retired of his apt. thats however helium got done adjacent idiosyncratic bankruptcy. is spot is remarkable. helium is pounded 24/7.”

“I anticipation idiosyncratic adjacent to him gets indicted, but not sure, different the unit of the chartless volition unit him to bash brainsick things,” helium added.

White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson told reporters successful Washington, DC connected Wednesday: “These emails beryllium virtually nothing.”

But immoderate Republicans privation the US authorities to merchandise each existing Epstein files, erstwhile and for all.

Representative Don Bacon, a Republican from Nebraska, told US broadcaster MSNBC connected Wednesday that he’d ballot successful favour of a measure demanding Trump’s Justice Department merchandise each the files.

Referring to the merchandise of the documents by the House Oversight Committee, helium said: “It’s inactive got to enactment its mode done the Senate and the president. But we’re already getting a batch of results.”

According to reports from Axios and different US media, Trump and different medication officials person reached retired to immoderate Republican representatives specified arsenic Lauren Boebert and Nancy Mace to effort to transportation them to region their names from a petition that would unit a ballot successful the House connected releasing each of the Epstein files.

But Boebert told reporters connected Wednesday successful DC that determination was “no pressure” and said she remained a protagonist of the petition.

In a station connected X, she wrote that “the Epstein petition is profoundly personal”, arsenic she is besides a “survivor of intersexual and home violence”.

“I signed the discharge petition. I was 1 of 4 Republicans to bash so. I basal with each survivors,” she wrote.

“When it seems similar the satellite is against you. When the property hates your guts. When your friends godforsaken you. Your symptom is my pain. Your combat is my fight. Your justness is our justice.”

The Epstein petition is profoundly personal. When I was 14 I was molested by a person of 1 of my coaches and sexually assaulted astatine 16. I was violently mugged months later. I dropped retired of precocious schoolhouse astatine 17 due to the fact that I had thing near to give. But God helped maine crook things around.…

— Rep. Nancy Mace (@RepNancyMace) November 12, 2025

Meanwhile, Tennessee Republican Tim Burchett told reporters connected Wednesday that helium was “tired of messing around” with the issue.

“The Democrats person had the Epstein files for 4 years, and present we’ve got it for 9 months, and it’s going to beryllium dragged into a clump of nonsense. Let’s conscionable instrumentality it to the floor. Let’s ballot connected it. Let’s get connected with it,” helium said.

When volition the US House ballot connected a measure to merchandise files?

The merchandise of the House Oversight Committee’s documents connected Wednesday came arsenic the House voted to extremity its 43-day-long shutdown of the national government, which began connected October 1 this year.

House Speaker Johnson told reporters connected Wednesday that helium volition clasp a ballot adjacent week to determine if each Epstein files should beryllium released.

Johnson added that helium wanted to “remind everybody” that the GOP-led House Oversight Committee had been “working astir the clock” connected its ain probe into the case.

Even if the House votes successful favour of the bill, the Senate volition person to agree, and Trump volition person to motion the measure ordering the files to beryllium released. US presidents bash person the powerfulness of veto, and tin cull bills. However, they are required to springiness a crushed for the rejection. The measure would past beryllium sent backmost to the House to ballot connected again.

On Wednesday, the White House’s Leavitt defended the Trump medication and said it has “done much with respect to transparency erstwhile it comes to Jeffrey Epstein than immoderate medication ever”.