White House slams Oversight Dems for 'selectively leaking' Epstein emails in 'smear' campaign against Trump

Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released new emails on Wednesday from infamous financier Jeffrey Epstein that allege Trump "knew about the girls," and that Trump spent "hours at my house." In an unredacted version of one of the emails, it was revealed that the unnamed victim is Virginia Giuffre, who has repeatedly said that Trump was not involved in any wrongdoing.

The Oversight Dems said that they received the emails from Epstein’s estate, and that the emails "raise serious questions about Donald Trump and his knowledge of Epstein’s horrific crimes." They urged, "It’s ime to end this cover-up and RELEASE THE FILES."

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement regarding the emails, "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."

"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, and any American with common sense sees right through this hoax and clear distraction from the government opening back up again."

The three separate email exchanges released by the committee are from after Epstein’s 2008 plea deal in Florida on state charges of soliciting prostitution, per the New York Times. Federal prosecutors in that case agreed not to pursue charges. The panel has received thousands of pages of documents. 

In one 2011 email to Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year sentence on sex-trafficking charges related to Epstein’s actions, Epstein wrote, "I want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is Trump." He said that the unnamed victim "spent hours at my house with him ,, he has never once been mentioned." Maxwell replied, "I have been thinking about that."

In a 2019 email to author Michael Wolff, Epstein, who died in prison later that year, wrote of Trump, "Of course he knew about the girls as he asked Ghislaine to stop," also noting "mara lago" in the email, and that "Trump said he asked me to resign, never a member ever."

In another email exchange with Wolff, the author emailed Epstein on the night of a Republican presidential primary debate and warned that CNN was "planning to ask Trump tonight about his relationship with you — either on air or in scrum afterwards."

Epstein replied, "If we were able to craft an answer for him, what do you think it should be?"

Wolff told Epstein, "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 valuable PR and political currency. You can hand him in a way that potentially generates a positive benefit for you, or, if it really looks like he could win, you could save him, generating a new 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."

Former Attorney General Bill Barr has testified that he did not see information in the Jeffrey Epstein case that would implicate Trump in Epstein’s crimes. Oversight Chair James Comer said that Barr, who sat down with the committee behind closed doors, "said that he had never seen anything that would implicate President Trump in any of this, and that he believed if there had been anything pertaining to President Trump with respect to the Epstein list, that he felt like the Biden administration would probably have leaked it out."

In July, Trump said that Epstein had been banned from Mar-a-Lago after poaching people who worked for him. "He took people that work for me, and I told him, don't do it anymore. And he did it. I said, 'Stay the hell out of here,'"

“I told him, I said, ‘Listen, we don't want you taking our people, whether it was spa or not spa. I don't want him taking people.’ And he was fine. And then not too long after that, he did it again. And I said, ‘Out of here,’” he said, saying Epstein “stole” his spa workers.