A fresh batch of leaked emails is throwing the Trump–Epstein connection back into the spotlight after a whistleblower group released messages that appear to show Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign sending bizarrely addressed emails to an account linked to Jeffrey Epstein — using the name “Pedophiles.”
The files were obtained by Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets), a nonprofit whistleblower organization. According to the group, Epstein’s email account, jeeproject@yahoo.com, regularly received campaign alerts during the 2020 race. And after Epstein’s death, the account reportedly appeared in the campaign’s contact list under a new display name: “Pedophiles.”
Among the emails in the leak is one dated Sept. 14, 2020, signed by Trump, that reads: “Pedophiles, I am so proud to be your president.” A copy of this email was shared on X by Raw Story reporter Alexander Willis.
Another, sent Oct. 27, 2020, says: “I need you right now, Pedophiles.”
Earlier that month, a separate message reads: “Pedophiles, I want you to know how important you are to me.” And on Oct. 25, the campaign allegedly fired off yet another email: “I’m turning to my strongest supporters, like Pedophiles.”
DDoSecrets’ release is separate from the 20,000 pages of Epstein estate files published by the House Oversight Committee last month, which already suggested Epstein had been “obsessed” with Trump for years. Those documents indicated Epstein had purchased “basically every major exposé” about Trump and even coordinated some of his flights around the president’s travel schedule, according to earlier reporting.
As noted by Raw Story, Epstein once referred to Trump as his “closest friend for 10 years,” and the Oversight Committee’s records included claims that Trump may have “spent hours” with one of Epstein’s victims at his home and might have spent Thanksgiving with Epstein during his first term. Trump also flew on Epstein’s private jet at least seven times in the 1990s, according to those documents.
None of the newly leaked messages have been independently verified by major newsrooms yet, but the language alone — if authentic — has left reporters stunned. Even by the standards of aggressive campaign fundraising emails, messages addressed to “Pedophiles” stand out as something entirely different.
Whether the name was the result of a prank, a list error, a hack, or something else is unclear. But the leak adds another strange, uncomfortable twist to a relationship that keeps resurfacing — and refuses to fully go away.
