Democrats are returning to the correspondence between Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, the billionaire convicted of sex crimes who later committed suicide in prison according to the official investigation. They point out that in a letter, Epstein says the tycoon once spent"hours" with a woman he described as a victim of his sex trafficking. The Daily Mail, which has had access to the documents, is launching its exclusive and indicating that the woman is Virginia Giuffre, the same woman who was at the center of the accusations against Prince Andrew, and who committed suicide last April: she was 41 years old. The media outlet Axios has obtained confirmation from Republican members of the House Oversight Committee, according to which Virginia Giuffre's name is not redacted in the documents provided to the committee.
Epstein claims that The Donald"knew about the girls." CNN and the New York Times have published this latest installment in the story, which is attracting interest from Democrats on the House Oversight Committee. A notable detail: in her memoir, Virginia Giuffre wrote that Donald Trump had never done anything wrong.
The emails were sent by the billionaire to Ghislaine Maxwell, his former partner and associate, sentenced to 20 years in prison for soliciting minors and other crimes, and to writer Michael Wolff: the reference to the fact that the current president knew about Epstein's dealings is linked to the argument between the two, which ended with Epstein being removed from the Mar-a-Lago club because the tycoon had accused his friend of"stealing" some of the girls who worked there. Virginia Giuffre also worked at the club as an assistant in the spa: she was 16 years old. Epstein writes to Wolff: “Trump said he asked me to resign. I was never a member… obviously he knew about the girls, because he asked Ghislaine to stop.”
It's worth remembering that Donald Trump has not received or sent any messages, and has not been charged with any crimes in connection with the Epstein-Maxwell investigation. The woman, interviewed by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche in early 2025, stated that she"never saw the President in any inappropriate context" and that she doesn't recall ever seeing Trump at Epstein's home, but only together at social gatherings.
The exchanges are therefore between Epstein and Maxwell, as in the email dated April 2, 2011, in which Epstein wrote: “I want you to understand that that dog that didn't bark is Trump… Virginia spent hours at my house with him, he was never mentioned once. Chief of Police, etc. I'm 75% there.” Maxwell replies: “I've thought about it…” Read like this, the message remains cryptic. The context is worth remembering: in June 2008, Epstein had been sentenced to 18 months in a minimum-security prison after pleading guilty to solicitation of prostitution and solicitation of a minor into prostitution; the billionaire was released in July 2009, after having served only 13 months. The correspondence released by the Democrats also includes a third email dating back to December 15, 2015, in which Wolff “warns” Epstein that CNN would like to ask Trump about their relationship: the two discuss what attitude would be best to take with the future president based on what he might respond.
The relationship between Trump and Epstein has always been known, but the tycoon has always denied any wrongdoing, so much so that he filed a defamation lawsuit against the editor of the Wall Street Journal and the journalists who wrote an article about a collection of letters dedicated to Epstein on his 50th birthday in 2003, including a note with Trump's name and the stylized silhouette of a naked woman. The Democrats' release of Epstein's emails came just hours before the swearing-in of Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva (Ariz.), which House Speaker Mike Johnson had delayed for nearly two months. With Grijalva's inauguration, Democrats obtained the decisive signature to force a vote in the House on a bill calling for the full release of Trump administration documents relating to Epstein. A proposal that the White House opposes.
And from the White House itself, spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt intervened on the dissemination of the material: “Democrats selectively released the emails to liberal media outlets to create a false narrative aimed at smearing President Trump. The anonymous victim referred to in these emails is the late Virginia Giuffre, who has repeatedly stated that President Trump was not involved in any illegal action, and could not have been friendlier to her in their limited interactions.”
