Whew, baby! House Democrats just dropped a bombshell batch of emails tying the late Jeffrey Epstein to President Donald Trump…
The three emails, fresh out the inboxes of Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and author Michael Wolff—hit like a plot twist nobody was ready for. In the messages, Epstein claimed that “of course” Trump knew about his relationships with underage girls and that the former president “spent hours at my house.”
Now, you already know this is about to stir the pot in Washington, especially since Trump has long denied being close to Epstein, who died by suicide in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) wasted no time calling out the former president:
“The more Donald Trump tries to cover up the Epstein files, the more we uncover. These latest emails and correspondence raise glaring questions about what else the White House is hiding and the nature of the relationship between Epstein and the President,”
he said in a statement.
Garcia didn’t stop there, either.
“The Department of Justice must fully release the Epstein files to the public immediately. The Oversight Committee will continue pushing for answers and will not stop until we get justice for the victims.”
But, as always, the GOP wasn’t about to let that slide. Republicans on the House Oversight Committee clapped back by dumping the entire 20,000-page batch of Epstein documents—talk about playing the whole album instead of a snippet. Meanwhile, the White House went on defense mode, accusing Democrats of “selectively leaking” the juiciest parts.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt fired off her own statement, saying:
“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.”
She went on to add:
“The fact remains that President Trump kicked Jeffrey Epstein out of his club decades ago for being a creep to his female employees… These stories are nothing more than bad-faith efforts to distract from President Trump’s historic accomplishments.”
Now let’s rewind—because these emails aren’t light reading. In an April 2011 message to Maxwell, Epstein wrote:
“i want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is trump… [VICTIM] spent hours at my house with him ,, he has never once been mentioned. police chief. etc. im 75% there.”
And in another message from 2019, he told Michael Wolff:
“[VICTIM] mara lago. [REDACTED]. trump said he asked me to resign, never a member ever. . of course he knew about the girls as he asked ghislaine to stop.”
That’s not all—Wolff’s own emails show him telling Epstein he could use Trump’s denials for “political currency.”
“If he says he hasn’t been on the plane or to the house, then that gives you a valuable PR and political currency,” Wolff wrote. “You can hang him in a way that potentially generates a positive benefit for you…”
Basically, it’s giving House of Cards energy.
But the political drama doesn’t stop there. Wednesday isn’t just about the email drops—Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva (D-Ariz.) is also getting sworn in, giving Democrats the final signature they need to force a House vote on a bill demanding that the DOJ make the Epstein files public. Republicans aren’t feeling that move, arguing that the Oversight Committee’s own digging is enough.
Still, this saga isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. Every side’s pointing fingers, files are dropping faster than mixtapes in the early 2000s, and somewhere, someone’s trying to keep their name out the next batch of leaks.
Washington might be reopening, but the Epstein-Trump story? Yeah, that’s just catching fire.