Getty ImagesUS lawmakers have released more than 20,000 pages of documents from the estate of disgraced financier and convict Jeffrey Epstein, including some that refer to President Donald Trump.
Earlier on Wednesday, Democrats on the House Oversight Committee published three emails Appaneine, who died in prison for a 20-year prison term Maxwell, and currently serving a 20-year prison term Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year prison term Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year prison term 20-year prison term Maxwell, who served the age of Ghislainine Maxwell, and is currently serving a 20-year prison term for sex trafficking.
They also released emails between Epstein and author Michael Wolff, who has written several books about Trump.
Within hours, Republicans in Rositas immediately released dozens of documents to counter what they said was a Democratic effort to cherry-pick documents. They also said it was an attempt to “create a false narrative to slander President Trump”.
Trump has been friends with Epstein for years, but the President says they fell out in the early 2000s, two years before Epstein was arrested. Trump has always denied any wrongdoing with Epstein.
The BBC is still reading the cache of documents and will provide updates as we get them. Here’s what we know so far and how the white house is responding.
‘Dog that won’t shut up is Trump’
The first email released by Democrats was from 2011 and was between Epstein and Maxwell.
Here, Epstein wrote to Maxwell: “I want you to realize that the dog that did not enter is Trump.. [VICTIM] spent hours in my house with him”.
Epstein continued to write that Trump “has not been discussed”, including with a “chief of police”.
Maxwell replied: “I was thinking about that…”
The victim’s name was attributed to the email released by the Democrats, although the unredacted version was in the Tranche released by the Committee. Which shows the name “Virignia”.
The White House said it was referring to the late Virginia Giuffre, a prominent Epstein accuser who died of suicide earlier this year. In a statement, the White House said Giuffre “repeatedly told President Trump that he was not involved in any wrongdoing whatsoever and ‘couldn’t have been more charming interactions'”.
Asked why the name was used in the first place, representative Robert Garcia – the top Democrat on the US House Reversight Committee – said the Party would never release the names of the families.
Epstein sought guidance from WOLFF
In exchanges with WOLFF, Epstein discussed his connection to Trump, who is campaigning for the Presidency ahead of his first term in office.
In a second email exchange released by Democrats, Wolff wrote to Epstein in 2015 that he was informed that CNN planned to ask Trump about their relationship, “either on air or in the scrum afterwards”.
Epstein replied: “If we are able to make an answer for him, what do you think it should be?”
Wolff wrote: “I think he should be given himself. If he is not on the plane with a possibility to win, you can win, you can win him, you can win him, you can win him, you can win him, you can make a debt.”
He added, “Of course, it is possible that, if asked, he will tell Jeffrey a good man and get a raw political deal, which will be rolled into a political regime.”
In a separate email from October 2016, days before the US presidential election, Wolff offered Epstein the opportunity to sit down for an interview “After” Trump.
“Is there an opportunity to come this week and talk about Trump in such a way that you can get the best sympathy and help?”
A third email released by Democrats is dated January 2019, during Trump’s first term in office.
Here, Epstein told WOLFF: “Trump said that he asked me to leave” his membership of the president’s office, adding, he is “not a member”.
Epstein added that “of course he knew about the girls as he asked Ghislaine to stop”.
Responding to the release of a video he posted on Instagram, Wolff said: In a video posted on his Instagram: “Some of the emails between Epstein and I, in Epstein between Epstein and I, with Epstein discussing his relationship with Donald Trump.”
“I’ve been trying to talk about this story for a long time now,” he added.
Emails are an effort to ‘Smear’ Trump, White House says
The White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said that the emails “Select Leaked” by House Democrats in a fake essay on the president to Smear Truart Trump “.
“The fact remains that President Trump Jeffrey Epstein from his clubs decades ago was known to his employees, including Giuffre,” he said.
“These stories are nothing more than bad faith efforts to distract from the historic achievements of President Trump, and any American who is sick of reopening the government again.”
When asked at the press briefing about the extensive release of documents by the Oberright Committee on the house, Leavitt said that President Trump has not done anything “.