Leaked Epstein Emails Tie Trump Closer to Scandal: ‘[Victim] Spent Hours at My House With Him’

Newly leaked emails from Jeffrey Epstein suggest former President Donald Trump may have been more entangled in Epstein’s inner circle than he’s ever publicly admitted.

The messages, exchanged between Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and author Michael Wolff, were released Wednesday by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee — and they mention Trump multiple times in unsettling ways. CNN reports the emails came from a cache of 23,000 documents obtained from Epstein’s estate.

In one particularly explosive message dated April 2, 2011, Epstein wrote to Maxwell: “i want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is trump.. (a redacted victim’s name) spent hours at my house with him ,, he has never once been mentioned. police chief. etc. im 75 % there.”

Maxwell’s response was cryptic but telling: “I have been thinking about that…”

The identity of the victim mentioned remains unknown. The Oversight Committee redacted her name, and CNN said it could not confirm who she might be.

Despite the disturbing undertones in Epstein’s message, Maxwell tried to downplay Trump’s behavior in later interviews. Speaking with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche earlier this year, she said:

“The President was never inappropriate with anybody. In the times that I was with him, he was a gentleman in all respects.”

But Epstein himself appeared to suggest otherwise in subsequent emails, claiming Trump “knew about the girls.” He also discussed how to use Trump’s public statements about their friendship as “political currency.”

The correspondence didn’t stop there. In another email dated December 15, 2015 — the night of a Republican primary debate — author Michael Wolff wrote to Epstein:

“I hear CNN planning to ask Trump tonight about his relationship with you–either on air or in scrum afterwards.”

CNN reviewed the debate transcript and confirmed there was no mention of Epstein on air that night. But Wolff’s next email showed the kind of games Epstein was willing to play:

“I think you should let him hang himself. If he says he hasn’t been on the plane or to the house, then that gives you a valuable PR and political currency. You can hang him in a way that potentially generates a positive benefit for you, or, if it really looks like he could win, you could save him, generating a debt.”

Wolff added, almost mockingly:

“Of course, it is possible that, when asked, he’ll say Jeffrey is a great guy and has gotten a raw deal and is a victim of political correctness, which is to be outlawed in a Trump regime.”

It’s a grim look into a world where political leverage and personal secrets intertwined. While none of the emails provide proof of criminal conduct by Trump, they do suggest Epstein saw him as both an ally and a liability — someone he could use, or expose, depending on how the wind blew.

For now, the release raises more questions than answers. But one thing is certain: the Epstein story, even years after his death, still has layers left to peel back — and Trump’s name is not fading from it anytime soon.