Trump 'knew about the girls,' Jeffrey Epstein said in email

Notorious enactment offender Jeffrey Epstein wrote successful an email to writer Michael Wolff that his erstwhile longtime friend, President Donald Trump, "knew astir the girls," according to a transcript of that April 2019 message purportedly betwixt the 2 men released by House Democrats connected Wednesday.

It is unclear what the operation "knew astir the girls" meant.

In different recently released email that Epstein wrote to his now-convicted accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell successful April 2011, Epstein wrote, "I privation you to recognize that the canine that hasn't barked is trump."

Epstein added successful that aforesaid email that a idiosyncratic whom the Democrats identified arsenic a unfortunate of his, whose sanction was redacted successful the email, "spent hours astatine my location with" Trump.

"He has ne'er erstwhile been mentioned," Epstein added successful that message.

Democrats connected the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, successful a statement, said that they had obtained the emails and much than 20,000 different documents from the property of Epstein.

Trump has denied that helium knew astir Epstein's intersexual maltreatment of underage girls and women. The president has ne'er been charged with wrongdoing successful transportation with Epstein.

It is not wide what Epstein was referring to successful the email that said "the canine that hasn't barked."

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, successful a connection connected Wednesday, said, "The Democrats selectively leaked emails to the wide media to make a fake communicative to smear President Trump."

"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," Leavitt said.

"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," Leavitt said.

"These stories are thing much than bad-faith efforts to distract from President Trump's historical accomplishments, and immoderate American with communal consciousness sees close done this hoax and wide distraction from the authorities opening backmost up again."

Giuffre died by termination successful April.

CNBC has requested remark from Maxwell's lawyer astir the emails.

Epstein, 66, killed himself successful a Manhattan jailhouse successful August 2019, weeks aft helium was arrested connected national kid enactment trafficking charges.

Scores of women person said Epstein sexually abused them erstwhile they were underage girls oregon young women.

Maxwell is serving a 20-year situation sentence for crimes related to procuring underage girls to beryllium abused by Epstein.

Democrats connected the House Oversight Committee said the emails that they obtained rise "serious questions" astir Trump's engagement with Epstein.

The 3 emails related to Trump are among thousands written by Epstein and obtained by the Democrats.

"The much Donald Trump tries to screen up the Epstein files, the much we uncover. These latest emails and correspondence rise glaring questions astir what other the White House is hiding and the quality of the narration betwixt Epstein and the President," said Rep. Robert Garcia, a California Democrat who is the ranking subordinate of the House Oversight Committee.

"The Department of Justice indispensable afloat merchandise the Epstein files to the nationalist immediately," Garcia said. "The Oversight Committee volition proceed pushing for answers and volition not halt until we get justness for the victims."

 Trump and the DOJ person been criticized for months for reneging connected promises by Trump medication officials to merchandise transgression investigative files astir Epstein.

Trump said successful July that helium threw Epstein retired of his Mar-a-Lago nine successful Florida and chopped ties with him years agone due to the fact that "he stole radical who worked for me."

Trump said that Epstein had poached astatine slightest 1 much Mar-a-Lago idiosyncratic from him aft being warned not to bash that again.

The president has repeatedly called demands that officials merchandise the alleged Epstein files "a Democratic hoax."

— CNBC's Laya Neelakandan contributed to this story.

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