‘Hours at My House’: Newly Revealed Emails Show Jeffrey Epstein Discussing His Relationship With Donald Trump

Republicans on the House Oversight Committee released a large tranche of emails and other documents from the Epstein estate, hours after Democrats on the committee released a batch of emails that showed the convicted sex offender discussing President Donald Trump, and alleged he spent time at Epstein’s home with a victim of sex trafficking.

Republicans called the disclosure from Democrats “cherry-picked” and “intentionally withholding records that name Democrat officials,” a spokesperson for the committee said shortly before releasing more than 20,000 files.

The emails from Democrats revealed that in private communication with Ghislaine Maxwell obtained through Epstein’s estate, Epstein wrote in 2011 that Trump, “spent hours at my house” with the victim, adding that the president was a “dog that hasn’t barked.”

In another email with author Michael Wolff in 2019, Epstein said Trump “knew about the girls as he asked ghislaine to stop.”

In another email in 2015, Epstein and Wolff write about whether they can “craft an answer” for Trump’s upcoming CNN interview, with Wolff characterizing Epstein’s leverage over Trump, saying, “If he says he hasn’t been on the plane or to the house, then that gives you a valuable PR and political currency.”

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

“The ‘unnamed victim’ referenced in these emails is the late Virginia Giuffre, who repeatedly said President Trump was not involved in any wrongdoing whatsoever and ‘couldn’t have been friendlier’ to her in their limited interactions,” Leavitt said. “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.”

“These stories are nothing more than bad-faith efforts to distract from President Trump’s historic accomplishments,” she continued, “and any American with common sense sees right through this hoax and clear distraction from the government opening back up again.”

It’s the latest chapter in a growing effort to shed light on the relationship between Trump and Epstein. The Trump administration has downplayed and publicly distanced itself from releasing Epstein documents, a campaign promise Trump made on the 2024 campaign trail.

The tranche of emails comes amid the Oversight panel’s investigation of Epstein, which yielded a suggestive 2003 birthday letter allegedly from Trump to Epstein that included a sketch of a naked woman.

The emails will almost certainly add fuel to a legislative push by Republican Rep. Thomas Massie to force the Department of Justice to release all files related to Epstein. Massie is expected to receive the final necessary signature Wednesday on a petition to compel a vote on the matter, after Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva is sworn in.

“The more Donald Trump tries to cover up the Epstein files, the more we uncover. These latest emails and correspondence raise glaring questions about what else the White House is hiding and the nature of the relationship between Epstein and the President,” Rep. Robert Garcia, the top Democrat on the committee, said in a statement. “The Department of Justice must fully release the Epstein files to the public immediately. The Oversight Committee will continue pushing for answers and will not stop until we get justice for the victims.”

According to a statement from Democrats on the House Oversight committee, the Epstein estate released a total of 23,000 documents that the committee is currently reviewing.

Editor’s note: This story has been updated with a statement from the White House and information on the additional 20,000 documents Republicans released.