Epstein Emails Claim Trump "Knew About the Girls"
And "spent hours" with one of the victims.
A small Epstein bombshell went off this morning. I say small because there’s so much more to come. How do I know? Because of the extraordinary steps the Trump administration and many Republicans are taking to distract from this never-ending scandal.
This morning, Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released a set of emails allegedly written by Jeff Epstein and others. One, dated 2011, from Epstein to his long-time accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, says: “that dog that hasn’t barked is Trump. (Redacted name) spent hours at my house with him …”
In another email from 2019 to author Michael Wolff, Epstein writes: “Of course he knew about the girls as he asked Ghislaine to stop.”
And in a third, from 2015, Epstein asks Wolff: “if we were able to craft an answer for him, what do you think it should be?”
Why the “hours with a victim” line matters
The statement that Trump “spent hours … at my house” with someone identified by Democrats as a victim of Epstein’s trafficking ring is a red-flag. It is not proof that Trump committed criminal activity. It does raise serious questions.
What was the nature of that meeting?
Why is only the victim’s name redacted and not the full context?
If Trump was just a social guest, how did the victim end up spending hours at Epstein’s house with Trump?
That line cracks open the narrative, forcing the conversation away from “Did Trump ever break the law?” to “What did he know, when did he know, and what did he do about it?”
And here’s why this isn’t just more Epstein noise to clog up your newsfeeds
The emails were released while Congress reconvened and a vote looms on releasing the full “Epstein files”.
They come from Epstein’s estate. The documents are part of the 23,000-plus item production to Congress.
The White House pushed back hard, labelling the release “selective leaks” aimed at a smear campaign.
The bottom line while we wait for more shoes from this multi-legged beast to drop
If there’s a takeway from this morning’s breaking news, it’s this: The bombshell today isn’t the bombshell. The truly explosive materials may still lie hidden. What we got today is leverage. It’s leverage over a man who has framed himself as beyond the messy business of elites. The claim that Donald Trump “spent hours with a victim” of Epstein—and the subsequent “he knew about the girls” allegation—are not the opening gambit but part of an unfolding story that demands more documentation, more context, and more accountability.