House Democrats on the Oversight Committee released emails Wednesday showing Jeffrey Epstein mentioning Donald Trump multiple times in private correspondence.
The messages, sent to Ghislaine Maxwell and author Michael Wolff, span over a decade and include assertions that Trump spent significant time with a woman described as an Epstein victim.
Trump did not send or receive the emails, which mostly predate his presidency, and faces no criminal accusations related to Epstein or Maxwell.
Epstein died by suicide in 2019 while awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges.
In an April 2011 email to Maxwell, Epstein wrote that Trump was "that dog that hasn’t barked" and noted that a redacted individual "spent hours at my house with him."
GOP members identified the person as Virginia Giuffre, an Epstein survivor who died by suicide in April and did not accuse Trump of wrongdoing in her book.
A 2019 email to Wolff stated Trump "knew about the girls" in reference to claims that Epstein was barred from Mar-a-Lago for poaching young women.
Maxwell told Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche this year that she never witnessed Trump in inappropriate settings and described him as a gentleman.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt called the release a selective leak to create a fake narrative and distract from Trump's accomplishments.
“The Democrats selectively leaked emails to the liberal media to create a fake narrative to smear President Trump,” Leavitt said.
The disclosure coincides with Rep. Adelita Grijalva's swearing-in, providing the 218th signature for a petition to force a vote on releasing all non-classified Epstein files.
Representative Robert Garcia urged the Justice Department to fully disclose the records, stating the emails raise questions about Trump's relationship with Epstein.
A Reuters/Ipsos poll showed only four in 10 Republicans approve of Trump's handling of the Epstein files.