The government shutdown will likely end today, and the House of Representatives is due to resume their work. That includes the House Oversight Committee, which has been leading the way on the Jeffrey Epstein files in recent months. The committee has overturned a lot of previously unknown or unseen documents proving a lot about Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s connections to Andrew Mountbatten Windsor and Donald Trump. Well, House Democrats just revealed something pretty big: 2011 communications between Epstein and Maxwell about Trump, and 2019 communications between Epstein and Michael Wolff in which Epstein explicitly says that Trump knew about “the girls.”
House Democrats on Wednesday released emails in which Jeffrey Epstein wrote that President Trump had “spent hours at my house” with one of Mr. Epstein’s victims, among other messages that suggested that the convicted sex offender believed Mr. Trump knew more about his abuse than he has acknowledged.
Mr. Trump has emphatically denied any involvement in or knowledge of Mr. Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation. He has said that he and Mr. Epstein, the disgraced financier who died by suicide in federal prison in 2019, were once friendly but had a falling out.
But Democrats on the House Oversight Committee said the emails, which they selected from thousands of pages of documents received by their panel, raised new questions about the relationship between the two men. In one of the messages, Mr. Epstein flatly asserted that Mr. Trump “knew about the girls,” many of whom were later found by investigators to have been underage. In another, Mr. Epstein pondered how to address questions from the news media about their relationship as Mr. Trump was becoming a national political figure.
The three separate email exchanges released on Wednesday were all from after Mr. Epstein’s 2008 plea deal in Florida on state charges of soliciting prostitution, in which federal prosecutors agreed not to pursue charges. They came years after Mr. Trump and Mr. Epstein had a reported falling out in the early 2000s. One was addressed to Mr. Epstein’s longtime confidante Ghislaine Maxwell, while two were with the author Michael Wolff.
In one email from April 2011, Mr. Epstein told Ms. Maxwell, who was later convicted on charges related to facilitating his crimes, “I want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is Trump.” He added that an unnamed victim “spent hours at my house with him ,, he has never once been mentioned.”
“I have been thinking about that,” Ms. Maxwell wrote back.
In an email from January 2019, Mr. Epstein wrote to Mr. Wolff of Mr. Trump: “Of course he knew about the girls as he asked Ghislaine to stop.” House Democrats, citing an unnamed whistle-blower, said this week that Ms. Maxwell was preparing to formally ask Mr. Trump to commute her federal prison sentence.
The emails were provided to the Oversight Committee along with a larger tranche of documents from Mr. Epstein’s estate that the panel requested as part of its investigation into Mr. Epstein and Ms. Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year sentence on sex-trafficking charges. The committee’s staff redacted victims’ names and any identifying information from the emails. Because the full set of documents has not been released, it was not clear whether the emails had been excerpted from larger conversations that might have provided fuller context.
I’m not sure what other context we need for “Of course he knew about the girls as he asked Ghislaine to stop.” I would assume that the added context is that Trump specifically asked Ghislaine to stop trafficking girls from Mar-a-Lago specifically, not “stop committing all crimes forever, you horrible abusers.” The context will make it altogether worse, I’m sure. And Trump “spent hours” with a victim at Epstein’s house? And Ghislaine knew about it? Man, Epstein’s in-custody death in the middle of Trump’s first term looks weirder and weirder, right??
BOMBSHELL: Emails released by @OversightDems show Epstein told Maxwell that Trump had “spent hours at my house,” “knew about the girls,” and that Trump was “that dog that hasn’t barked.” To which Maxwell says “I have been thinking about that.” pic.twitter.com/6KcXg3KG5a
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) November 12, 2025
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