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Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein told his close associate Ghislaine Maxwell that Donald Trump “spent hours at my house” with one of his victims, and told a journalist that Trump “knew about the girls”, according to new documents released by Democrats in the US Congress.
The US president, who was friends with Epstein in the 1990s but says the pair fell out in the 2000s, has always emphatically denied knowledge of Epstein and Maxwell’s sex-trafficking operations. The White House said the new emails were selectively chosen to smear Trump.
Trump and his future wife Melania with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida in 2000.Credit: Getty
The three emails released on Wednesday morning, US time, were selected by Democrats from a tranche supplied by Epstein’s estate to the House Oversight Committee under subpoena.
All three are from after Epstein was convicted of soliciting prostitution and soliciting prostitution from a minor in 2008 under a plea deal.
In the first email, from April 2011, Epstein tells Maxwell: “i want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is trump.. [REDACTED] spent hours at my house with him,, he has never once been mentioned. police chief. etc. im 75% there.”
Read North America correspondent Michael Koziol’s full report on the new emails.
