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House Democrats Release Epstein Emails: Bombshell or Shutdown Failure Distraction? [WATCH]

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House Oversight Committee Democrats released [1] a series of emails on Wednesday from the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein that reference President Donald Trump.

The emails, which were exchanged between Epstein, his associate Ghislaine Maxwell, and author Michael Wolff, were obtained through a subpoena issued to Epstein’s estate earlier this year, according to CNN.

The release came just hours before Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva, a Democrat from Arizona, was scheduled to be sworn into Congress.

Her vote is expected to be decisive in advancing a bipartisan petition to compel the public release of Epstein-related files.

None of the emails were directly sent to or received from President Trump.

The communications primarily predate his presidency, and Trump has not been accused of any criminal wrongdoing in connection with Epstein or Maxwell.

One of the emails, dated April 2, 2011, shows Epstein writing to Maxwell, “i want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is trump.. (REDACTED) spent hours at my house with him ,, he has never once been mentioned. police chief. etc. im 75 % there.”

Maxwell replied, “I have been thinking about that…” The context of the exchange remains unclear, and the name Epstein referenced was redacted by the committee to protect the individual’s identity.

In earlier testimony this year, Maxwell told Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche that she never saw President Trump behave inappropriately. She said she did not recall ever seeing Trump at Epstein’s home and that their interactions occurred only in public or social settings.

“The President was never inappropriate with anybody,” Maxwell said.

“In the times that I was with him, he was a gentleman in all respects.”

A separate email dated January 2019, about seven months before Epstein’s death in prison, appeared to reference Trump’s public statement that he had banned Epstein from his Mar-a-Lago resort. “trump said he asked me to resign,” Epstein wrote to Wolff, adding, “never a member ever. . of course he knew about the girls as he asked to Ghislaine to stop.”

The White House has stated that President Trump barred Epstein from Mar-a-Lago “for being a creep” and that Epstein had “stolen” young female spa employees, prompting the end of their association.

Maxwell later told Blanche that she had not recruited anyone at Mar-a-Lago.

Another exchange from December 15, 2015, the day of a CNN Republican primary debate, included a message from Wolff to Epstein stating, “I hear CNN planning to ask Trump tonight about his relationship with you–either on air or in scrum afterwards.”

Epstein replied, “if we were able to craft an answer for him, what do you think it should be?”

Wolff responded, “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. 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.”

Following the release of the emails, the White House criticized Democrats for what it described as selective redactions intended to distort the contents.

According to a report from The Hill, White House officials said the redacted individual was Virginia Giuffre, one of Epstein’s most prominent accusers, whose death earlier this year was ruled a suicide.

Giuffre previously stated that she worked at Mar-a-Lago as a teenager and repeatedly maintained that President Trump had never engaged in any misconduct.

“The Democrats selectively leaked emails to the liberal media to create a fake narrative to smear President Trump. The ‘unnamed victim’ referenced in these emails is the late Virginia Giuffre, who repeatedly said President Trump was not involved in any wrongdoing whatsoever and ‘couldn’t have been friendlier’ to her in their limited interactions,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement.

“The fact remains that President Trump kicked Jeffrey Epstein out of his club decades ago for being a creep to his female employees, including Giuffre,” Leavitt added.

“These stories are nothing more than bad-faith efforts to distract from President Trump’s historic accomplishments, and any American with common sense sees right through this hoax and clear distraction from the government opening back up again.”