“The latest emails raise serious questions about what the White House is trying to hide and the nature of Epstein’s relationship with the President,” Rep. Robert Garcia, a California Democrat and the senior Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, wrote in a statement about the more than 20,000 pages of correspondence released Wednesday. Donald Trump is also named in the emails, one of which

Epstein directly claimed that Trump “knew about the girls,” who investigators later determined were minors. In another, he mused about how to handle press questions about their relationship as Trump became a national political figure.

Epstein, who was convicted in 2008, moved in the highest circles of the business and political world, supplying underage girls to his clients and organizing sex parties for decades. His death was ruled a homicide by the official medical examiner. ruled a suicide . His confidant and collaborator, Ghislaine Maxwell, is currently He is serving a 20-year prison sentence., for luring teenage girls into Jeffrey Epstein's circle, where they were sexually abused. Court documents from the Maxwell case last year were also made public, which also included Trump, Bill Clinton and Prince Andrew, but the president has not been charged with anything. Trump and Epstein's relationship dates back to the 1980s, and they attended several social events together in Palm Beach and New York. Their relationship soured in the mid-2000s, when they fell out over a real estate deal.

The undoubtedly existing relationship came into even greater focus after the Wall Street Journal brought me a article, according to which Jeffrey Epstein was sent an album of racy messages by his friends for his 50th birthday, and one of the letters came from Trump, who wrote a few lines on a typewriter, drew the outline of a naked woman on the page, and then signed the whole thing at the woman's pubic mound. The text read:"Happy birthday - and may every day be another wonderful secret." Trump is suing for libel and slander over the article launched against the publisher of the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) and its affected journalists.

"Of course he knew about the girls"

The three separate emails released on Wednesday came years after Trump and Epstein fell out around the turn of the millennium, the New York Times reports. New York Times One of the letters was received by Maxwell, and the other two were received by author Michael Wolff, who later wrote a book about Trump. In April 2011, Epstein wrote to Maxwell:

“I want you to understand, the dog that didn’t bark was Trump.”