Newly released Epstein emails link Trump to alleged victim encounters

A newly revealed email from convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has drawn renewed scrutiny toward US President Donald Trump, as Democrats in the House Oversight Committee released a trove of correspondence suggesting Trump had close contact with one of Epstein’s victims.

In the 2011 email, Epstein told his then-partner Ghislaine Maxwell that Trump “spent hours” with one of the girls, adding, “that dog that hasn’t barked is Trump. [Victim] spent hours at my house with him.” Maxwell, now serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex trafficking, replied, “I have been thinking about that…”

The message, sent two years after Epstein’s first prison term, was followed by another email in 2019 in which Epstein wrote that Trump “knew about the girls.” Democrats say the correspondence adds to the need for full transparency regarding Epstein’s network and his ties to powerful figures across politics and finance.

Trump swiftly rejected the claims, calling them “a hoax.” In a social media post, he said, “The Democrats are trying to bring up the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax again because they’ll do anything at all to deflect on how badly they’ve done on the Shutdown.”

A Trump campaign spokesperson claimed that the “unnamed victim” referenced in the email was Virginia Giuffre, who had publicly said Trump “was not involved in any wrongdoing whatsoever.” They reiterated that Trump had banned Epstein from his Mar-a-Lago club “decades ago for being a creep to his female employees.”

Representative Ro Khanna (D-CA) said the emails show how “an entire class of powerful people” tolerated Epstein’s crimes. “This whole Epstein class needs to go,” Khanna told Breaking Points. “It’s not just rich and powerful men who may have abused and raped young girls; it’s a lot of rich and powerful people who knew the abuse was going on and did nothing.”

Epstein’s network spanned global politics and business, with reported ties to former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, Britain’s Prince Andrew, and former US President Bill Clinton. He was charged with sex trafficking minors in 2019 and died by suicide in a New York jail two months later.

Despite repeated demands from activists and lawmakers, the Trump administration and Justice Department have refused to release the so-called “Epstein files,” citing privacy concerns and the protection of victims.

Federal authorities maintain that no evidence supports claims Epstein’s death was anything other than suicide. But the resurfacing of these emails is likely to deepen the political controversy surrounding Trump’s connection to the disgraced financier — and fuel calls for full public disclosure of Epstein’s secret files.