House Democrats Release Epstein Emails Suggesting Trump Knew About Abuse

House Democrats on the Oversight Committee have released a selection of private emails from convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, suggesting the disgraced financier believed that President Donald Trump knew more about his sex-trafficking activities than Mr. Trump has publicly acknowledged.

The emails were selected from thousands of pages of documents released by the committee.

The emails, obtained via a subpoena to Epstein’s estate, include messages from 2011 sent by Epstein to Ghislaine Maxwell. In one message, Epstein flatly asserted that Mr. Trump “knew about the girls,” many of whom were later found to have been underage. Another message claimed that President Trump had “spent hours at my house” with one of Epstein’s alleged victims. Epstein also reportedly pondered in another email how to address media questions about his relationship with President Trump as the latter became a national political figure.

President Trump has repeatedly and emphatically denied any involvement in or knowledge of Mr. Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation, maintaining that while they were once friendly, they had a falling out.

Republicans on the House Oversight Committee swiftly identified the unnamed victim mentioned in two of the emails as Virginia Giuffre, who died by suicide in April. They released unredacted versions of the emails identifying Ms. Giuffre, while arguing that the claims rely solely on Epstein’s unverified statements. Republicans countered the Democrats’ assertions by citing Ms. Giuffre’s own sworn testimony, in which she stated that she never saw President Trump at Epstein’s home nor witnessed any misconduct by him.

The release of the documents highlights Epstein’s references to Trump amid their social ties in the 1990s and 2000s, raising new questions about the extent of the relationship between the two men.