House Democrats released new emails on Wednesday morning that work to tie President Donald Trump to Jeffrey Epstein’s sex crimes, with the White House immediately firing back labeling the emails “selectively leaked” and designed “to create a fake narrative to smear” Trump.
Convicted sex offender Epstein claimed in a 2019 email to author Michael Wolff that Trump “knew about the girls.” Other emails show him discussing Trump with his fixer, Ghislaine Maxwell, in which Epstein claimed that Trump “spent hours” at Epstein’s home with one of the sexual abusers’ victims.
Epstein’s email to Wolff was sent on January 31, 2019, less than seven months before Epstein was found dead in what authorities say was a suicide in his New York jail cell.
“[T]rump said he asked me to resign, never a member ever,” the email to Wolff states. “[O]f course he knew about the girls as he asked ghislaine [sic] to stop.”
Epstein’s email appears to be addressing Trump’s move to force him out of his club at Mar-a-Lago. Trump, who was a friend of Epstein’s in the 1990s and early 2000s, reportedly kicked Epstein out of his club in 2007, just months before the wealthy financier pled guilty in Florida to state charges of soliciting a prostitute under 18 years old.
In another email released by Democrats on Wednesday, Epstein claimed that Trump “spent hours” at Epstein’s home with one of the sexual abuser’s victims.
“[I] want you to realize that the dog that hasn’t barked is trump [sic]. [REDACTED] spent hours at my house with him, has never once been mentioned. [P]olice chief. etc. [I’m] 75% there.”
House Democrats said that the emails “raise serious questions about Donald Trump and his knowledge of Epstein’s horrific crimes,” but the White House pushed back with context that appears to undermine the Democrats’ release.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said that the redacted victim mentioned in the email is Virginia Giuffre, who died by suicide earlier this year. Giuffre had previously said that she did not believe Trump took part in Epstein’s sexual abuse of minors.
“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 in a statement obtained by Daily Wire White House Correspondent Mary Margaret Olohan.
NEW: @PressSec on today’s Epstein news: “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…
— Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) November 12, 2025
“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,” Leavitt added. “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.”
In a third email thread unveiled by Democrats, Wolff and Epstein appear to be strategizing on political tactics surrounding Trump.
“I hear CNN planning to ask Trump tonight about his relationship with you–either on air or in scrum afterwards,” Wolff wrote to Epstein on December 15, 2015, the same day that CNN hosted a 2016 Republican presidential primary debate.
“If we were able to craft an answer for him, what do you think it should be?” Epstein replied.
“I think you should let him hang himself. If he says he hasn’t been on the plane or to the house, then that gives you a valuable P.R. and political currency,” Wolff wrote of what he thought Trump’s strategy should be. “You can hang him in a way that generates positive benefits for you, or, if it really looks like he could win, you could save him, generating a debt. Of course, it is possible that, when asked, he’ll say Jeffrey is a great guy and has gotten a raw deal and is a victim of political correctness, which is to be outlawed in a Trump regime.”
🚨BREAKING: Oversight Dems have received new emails from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate that raise serious questions about Donald Trump and his knowledge of Epstein’s horrific crimes.
Read them for yourself. It’s time to end this cover-up and RELEASE THE FILES. pic.twitter.com/A5XgOHj2Jq
— Oversight Dems (@OversightDems) November 12, 2025
Trump was never asked about Epstein during that debate.
Critics have pointed out numerous holes in Wolff’s reporting throughout the years, including in his most popular book, “Fire and Fury,” which focused on the first Trump administration. Wolff wrote a piece for The Daily Beast earlier this year linking first lady Melania Trump to Jeffrey Epstein, alleging that she was “very involved” in the scandal. The Daily Beast removed Wolff’s article from its site, writing in an editor’s note, “Upon reflection, we have determined that the article did not meet our standards and has therefore been removed from our platforms.”
Trump has not been accused of any wrongdoing related to Epstein’s sexual abuse of young girls. The Trump administration, however, has faced criticism from both sides of the aisle for its handling of the Epstein investigation after the Department of Justice said in July that it reviewed the case and did not find evidence of an Epstein client list. The DOJ also concluded that the evidence shows that Epstein committed suicide in his jail cell.