Shock Epstein emails: Read what they say about Trump, Clinton and Giuffre
The release of more than 20,000 pages of documents has given a glimpse of Jeffrey Epstein’s sick world and the powerful people he mixed with. READ THE EMAILS
The release of more than 20,000 pages of documents by the powerful House Oversight Committee provided the most detailed glimpse yet of the late convicted pedophile’s correspondence ahead of his arrest in July 2019 on federal child sex trafficking charges.
Three emails — from 2011, 2015, and 2019 — suggest that US President Donald Trump had more detailed knowledge of Epstein’s activities than previously claimed.
The three emails in question, initially published by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee, feature exchanges between Epstein and his long-time associate Ghislaine Maxwell, and separately with the author Michael Wolff.
In the 2011, email, Epstein claimed to convicted sex trafficker Maxwell, known as “GMax”, that a victim, whose name was redacted, “spent hours at my house with him [Trump, and] he has never once been mentioned.”
He also referred to Mr Trump as a “dog that hasn’t barked”.
The White House has revealed that the victim in question was Virginia Giuffre, the Australian-based accuser of former prince Andrew who never accused Mr Trump of any wrongdoing before taking her own life at her farm in Western Australia last April.
In the 2015 email, Wolff informed Epstein that he heard CNN intended to ask Mr Trump about his relationship with Epstein.
Epstein responded by asking, “if we were able to craft an answer for him, what do you think it should be?”
“I think you should let him hang himself,” Wolff responded. “If he says he hasn’t been on the plane or to the house, then that gives you a valuable PR and political currency.”
In an email from January 2019, Epstein wrote to Wolff of Mr Trump: “Of course he knew about the girls as he asked Ghislaine to stop.”
In a separate email exchange, Epstein said he ended his friendship with Bill Clinton because he believed the former president was a liar
In the 2016 email to Kathryn Ruemmler, a former White House counsel to former president Barack Obama, Epstein revealed that he broke off contact with Mr Clinton after “he swore, with wholehearted conviction to me that he had done something, he had forgotten that he also swore the exact opposite to me only weeks before.”
In anther email to Ms Ruemmler, who is now the Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel at Goldman Sachs, Epstein said: “I know how dirty Donald is.”
A spokesperson for Goldman Sachs stated that Ms Ruemmler’s interactions with Epstein were limited to business.
A spokesperson for Mr Clinton told The New York Post: “Who knows what they’re talking about.
“What we do know and have always said is that President Clinton knew nothing about Epstein’s heinous crimes and hadn’t spoken to him in twenty years.
“Now here it is in black and white.”
Mr Trump has blasted the release of the emails as part of a “hoax” designed to distract from the “massive damage” caused by the US government’s record-breaking shutdown.
Originally published as Shock Epstein emails: Read what they say about Trump, Clinton and Giuffre