What we know about Epstein’s latest Trump-referencing emails

US lawmakers have released more than 20,000 pages of documents from the estate of disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, including some that mention President Donald Trump.

Early Wednesday, Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released three email exchanges, including correspondence between Epstein, who died in prison in 2019, and his longtime associate, Ghislaine Maxwell, who is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex trafficking.

They also released emails between Epstein and author Michael Wolff, who has written numerous books about Trump.

Within hours, House Republicans released a massive trove of documents to counter what they said was a Democratic effort to “cherry-pick” documents. They also said it was an attempt to “create a false narrative to defame President Trump.”

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the emails were “selectively leaked” by House Democrats to “liberal media to create a false narrative to smear President Trump.”

“The fact is that President Trump kicked Jeffrey Epstein out of his club decades ago for being a creep to his employees, including Giuffre,” he said.

Trump was friends with Epstein for years, but the president has said they fell out in the early 2000s, two years before Epstein was first arrested. Trump has consistently denied any wrongdoing regarding Epstein.

The first email released by Democrats is from 2011 and is between Epstein and Maxwell.

In it, Epstein writes to Maxwell: “I want you to realize that the dog that hasn’t barked is Trump… [VICTIM] “I spent hours at home with him.”

Epstein goes on to write that Trump “has never been mentioned even once,” not even by a “police chief.”

Maxwell replied: “I’ve been thinking about that…”

The victim’s name was redacted in the email that Democrats released, although the unredacted version is in the portion released by the committee. That shows the name “virignia”.

The White House said she refers to the late Virginia Giuffre, a prominent Epstein accuser who committed suicide earlier this year. In a statement, the White House said Giuffre “repeatedly said that President Trump was not involved in any wrongdoing and that he ‘could not have been friendlier’ to her in their limited interactions.”

Giuffre said in a 2016 deposition that she never saw Trump engage in any abuse. And in a memoir published this year, he did not accuse the president of any crime.

When asked why the name was originally omitted, Rep. Robert Garcia, the top Democrat on the U.S. House Oversight Committee, said the party will never release victims’ names in accordance with the families’ wishes.

In exchanges with Wolff, Epstein talks about his connection to Trump, who was campaigning for the presidency before his first term.

In a second email exchange released by Democrats, Wolff writes to Epstein in 2015 to notify him that CNN plans to ask Trump about their relationship, “either on air or in a subsequent meeting.”

Epstein responds: “If we could craft an answer for him, what do you think it should be?”

Wolff writes: “I think you should let him hang himself. If he says he hasn’t been on the plane or the house, then that gives you valuable political and PR currency. You can hang him in a way that potentially generates a positive benefit for you or, if he really looks like he could win, you could save him, generating a debt.”

He adds: “Of course, he may, when asked, say that Jeffrey is a great guy, that he has been treated unfairly, and that he is a victim of political correctness, which is prohibited in a Trump regime.”

In a separate email from October 2016, days before the US presidential election, Wolff offers Epstein the opportunity to attend an interview that could “end” Trump.

“There is an opportunity to come forward this week and talk about Trump in a way that could garner him a lot of sympathy and help bring him down. Are you interested?” Wolff writes to Epstein.

A third email released by Democrats is dated January 2019, during Trump’s first term.

In it, Epstein tells Wolff, “Trump said he asked me to resign,” apparently referring to his membership in the president’s Mar-a-Lago club, adding that he “was never a member.”

Epstein adds that “of course he knew about the girls when he asked Ghislaine to stop.”

Responding to the post in a video he posted on Instagram, Wolff said: “Some of those emails are between Epstein and me, with Epstein discussing his relationship with Donald Trump.”

“I’ve been trying to talk about this story for a long time,” he added.

In addition to Trump, a published document also mentions Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, former Prince Andrew.

He responded to an email forwarded by Ghislaine Maxwell through Jeffrey Epstein in March 2011 about alleged sexual activity with a masseuse who worked for Epstein.

Andrew’s response reads: “Hi! What’s all this? I don’t know anything about this! You need to SAY IT, please. This has NOTHING to do with me. I can’t take any more of this.”

Maxwell had sent a “right of reply” email from the Mail on Sunday, March 4, making numerous accusations about Maxwell, Epstein and the then-Prince Andrew.

The right-to-reply email states that a woman, whose name is redacted in the published document, was introduced to Andrew by the disgraced financier in 2001, at Maxwell’s London home, where she had sexual relations with Andrew.

On 6 March 2011, the Mail on Sunday published a story that included a photograph of Prince Andrew and Virginia Guiffre.

Andrew has always denied any wrongdoing and has not faced any charges.

Lord Peter Mandelson, who was sacked as the UK ambassador to the US in September over his links to Epstein, is also named in the new documents.

They show he was in contact with Epstein in 2016, according to the documents.

The last reported previous contact between the pair was when the then-business secretary took Epstein’s advice on a banking deal in March 2010, just months after the American businessman’s release from prison for sex crimes against children, the Daily Telegraph reported.

An email from Epstein to Lord Mandelson on November 6, 2015, shortly after his partner’s birthday, reads: “63 years. You did it.”

Lord Mandelson responds less than 90 minutes later, saying: “Fair enough. I have decided to extend my life by spending more time in the United States.”

Epstein then responds “in Donald’s White House,” referring to the US presidential election that will be held that same week.

Epstein goes on to say, “You were right to stay away from Andrew. I was right to stay with Rinaldo.” [sic]”, a reference to Lord Mandelson’s now husband, Reinaldo Avilda da Silva.

Lord Mandelson has repeatedly said he regrets his relationship with Epstein. He declined to comment on the emails when approached by the BBC.