Revealed: Epstein Emails Claim Trump's Knowledge of Sex Trafficking Victim Despite Consistent Denials

Jeffrey Epstein claimed in a 2019 email to a journalist that Donald Trump "knew about the girls," according to documents released Wednesday, though the context and meaning of this statement remains ambiguous. The White House promptly accused Democrats of strategically leaking these emails to damage the president's reputation.

The House Oversight Committee's Democratic members unveiled three emails mentioning Trump, including a 2011 communication where Epstein told Ghislaine Maxwell that Trump had "spent hours" at Epstein's residence with a sex trafficking victim.

These revelations appear intended to raise questions regarding Trump's friendship with Epstein and his potential knowledge of what prosecutors describe as Epstein's long-term exploitation of underage girls. Trump has consistently maintained he had no knowledge of Epstein's criminal activities and terminated their relationship years earlier.

The Democrats' released version of the 2011 email redacted the victim's name, though Republican committee members later identified her as Virginia Giuffre, who had accused Epstein of arranging sexual encounters between herself and numerous wealthy associates. Epstein died by suicide in a New York detention facility in 2019 while awaiting federal trial.

Giuffre, who passed away earlier this year, had repeatedly stated that Trump was not among those who victimized her.

In court testimony, she declared under oath that she didn't believe Trump had any awareness of Epstein's misconduct involving underage girls. Her recently published memoir described meeting Trump only once while working as a spa attendant at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, and did not allege any impropriety.

Giuffre wrote that her father, who also worked at the club, introduced her to Trump. She characterized Trump as friendly and noted he offered to help her secure babysitting positions with club members.

Giuffre described Trump as someone who "couldn't have been friendlier."

Other Epstein household staff members also testified in sworn depositions that while Trump did visit Epstein's residence, they never witnessed him engage in inappropriate behavior.

White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt stated that Democrats "selectively leaked emails" to "create a fake narrative to smear President Trump."

In July, Trump stated he had banned Epstein from Mar-a-Lago because his former friend was "taking people who worked for me," including Giuffre. The women, he explained, were "taken out of the spa, hired by him — in other words, gone."

"I said, 'Listen, we don't want you taking our people,'" Trump told reporters. When asked if Giuffre was among the employees recruited by Epstein, the president hesitated before saying Epstein "stole her."

The emails published Wednesday are part of 23,000 documents provided to the Oversight Committee by Epstein's estate.

Shortly after Democrats released the Trump-related emails, committee Republicans responded by disclosing what they described as an additional 20,000 pages of documents from Epstein's estate, including copies of pages from a James Patterson book about the former financier.

This disclosure revives a narrative that had overshadowed Trump's presidency during summer when the FBI and Justice Department suddenly announced they would not release additional documents investigators had been examining, disappointing conspiracy theorists and online investigators who had anticipated new revelations.

In one 2019 email to journalist Michael Wolff, known for his extensive Trump coverage, Epstein wrote regarding Trump, "Of course he knew about the girls as he asked ghislaine to stop."

In an April 2, 2011, email to Maxwell, a former Epstein girlfriend now imprisoned for sex trafficking conspiracy, Epstein wrote, "I want you to realize that that dog that hasn't barked is Trump. (Redacted name) spent hours at my house with him ,, he has never once been mentioned. police chief. etc. im 75 % there."

Maxwell replied that same day: "I have been thinking about that."

The person's name who allegedly spent time with Trump was redacted, but House Democrats identified this person as a "victim."

Leavitt stated that the unnamed individual referenced in the emails is Giuffre, who had accused Britain's then-Prince Andrew and other powerful men of teenage sexual exploitation and who died by suicide in April. Andrew, recently stripped of his royal titles and evicted from his royal residence by King Charles III following weeks of pressure regarding his Epstein connection, has denied Giuffre's allegations and claimed not to recall meeting her.

Leavitt's statement emphasized that Giuffre had "repeatedly said President Trump was not involved in any wrongdoing whatsoever and 'couldn't have been friendlier' to her in their limited interactions."

"The fact remains that President Trump kicked Jeffrey Epstein out of his club decades ago for being a creep to his female employees, including Giuffre," the statement continued. "These stories are nothing more than bad-faith efforts to distract from President Trump's historic accomplishments, and any American with common sense sees right through this hoax and clear distraction from the government opening back up again."

Attempts to obtain comments from Wolff, Maxwell's attorney David Markus, and Giuffre's family representatives were unsuccessful.

Maxwell, interviewed by the Justice Department's second-in-command in July, consistently denied witnessing any inappropriate sexual interactions involving Trump.

"I actually never saw the President in any type of massage setting," Maxwell told Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, according to the interview transcript. "I never witnessed the President in any inappropriate setting in any way. The President was never inappropriate with anybody. In the times that I was with him, he was a gentleman in all respects."

Giuffre came forward publicly following an initial investigation that resulted in Epstein serving an 18-month Florida jail term after making a secret agreement to avoid federal prosecution by pleading guilty to relatively minor state-level charges of soliciting prostitution. He was released in 2009.

In subsequent lawsuits, Giuffre stated she was a teenage spa attendant at Mar-a-Lago when Maxwell approached her in 2000.

Maxwell's attorneys have argued she should never have been tried or convicted for her role in luring teenage girls for Epstein's sexual abuse. Currently serving a 20-year sentence, Maxwell was transferred from a low-security federal prison in Florida to a minimum-security prison camp in Texas following her interview with Blanche.