Trump ‘spent hours’ with victim at Epstein’s house, email alleges

A 2011 email sent by convicted enactment offender Jeffrey Epstein says that United States President Donald Trump “spent hours” with 1 of the victims – an allegation that is apt to further substance calls for releasing files relating to the late, disgraced financier.

The email, made nationalist by Democrats connected the House Oversight Committee connected Wednesday, was sent to Epstein’s erstwhile girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, who is presently serving a 20-year jailhouse sentence for enactment trafficking.

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“i privation you to recognize that that canine that hasn’t barked is trump. [Victim] spent hours astatine my location with him ,, helium has ne'er erstwhile been mentioned,” Epstein wrote according to the email, which was shared with the victim’s sanction redacted.

It is not wide what Epstein was referring to. The email was sent to Maxwell 2 years aft Epstein had spent 13 months successful situation for his enactment crimes.

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

In different email, sent successful 2019, Epstein says Trump “knew astir the girls”.

White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt dismissed the emails connected Wednesday, saying that they were “selectively released”.

“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 successful a statement.

“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.”

Trump has antecedently acknowledged that helium had issues with Epstein due to the fact that the precocious enactment offender recruited – oregon arsenic the US president enactment it, “stole” – young women who worked astatine his Mar-a-Lago edifice successful Palm Beach, Florida.

The US president had idiosyncratic ties to Epstein – a millionaire who was connected to almighty figures successful politics, fashionable culture, concern and academia – and aboriginal became known for his rampant enactment maltreatment against girls and young women.

Epstein archetypal pled blameworthy to charges of solicitation of prostitution with a insignificant successful 2008 and was fixed a lenient condemnation that critics picture arsenic a sweetheart woody that did not lucifer the severity of the offence.

After the Miami Herald investigated the prosecution against Epstein, national authorities reopened the lawsuit against him, arrested him and charged him with enactment trafficking of minors successful 2019.

Two months later, helium was recovered dormant successful his jailhouse compartment successful New York City. His decease was ruled a suicide.

Epstein’s associates included erstwhile Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, the United Kingdom’s Prince Andrew, and erstwhile US President Bill Clinton.

The ungraded and the mode successful which Epstein died person fuelled conspiracy theories and speculations that helium whitethorn person been moving for overseas oregon home quality services.

Some activists – including galore Trump supporters – person been calling for years for the merchandise of each authorities documents relating to Epstein.

But the Trump medication has refused to marque the alleged Epstein files public, citing the privateness of the victims.

Earlier this year, the Justice Department and FBI besides dismissed claims that Epstein whitethorn person utilized his enactment trafficking cognition to blackmail radical who frequented his location and backstage island, reasserting that helium died by suicide.

“Through this review, we recovered nary ground to revisit the disclosure of those materials and volition not licence the merchandise of kid pornography,” they said in a memo successful July.

“One of our highest priorities is combating kid exploitation and bringing justness to victims. Perpetuating unfounded theories astir Epstein serves neither of those ends.”

The US president besides scolded commentators who are focused connected Epstein, calling the contented a “waste of time”.

But galore of the president’s supporters were not satisfied with that explanation, particularly aft leaks and allegations raised questions astir Trump’s ain narration with Epstein.

Earlier this year, The Wall Street Journal published what it said was a day paper with intersexual connotations that Trump sent to Epstein with a connection written wrong of a drafting of a bare woman.

Trump denied penning oregon drafting the paper and sued the newspaper implicit the allegation.

In June, aft erstwhile White House billionaire adjutant Elon Musk fell retired with the US president, helium said, “the existent reason” Trump has not released the “Epstein files” is that helium is mentioned successful them.