Jeffrey Epstein declared: ‘I am the one able to take him down’ as he claimed president Donald Trump spent ‘hours’ with a sex abuse victim in messages published by American lawmakers.
Thousands of pages of material from Epstein’s estate have been made public, revealing how the disgraced financier repeatedly discussed Trump in private correspondence dating from 2011 to 2019.
The content spans years before and during Trump’s presidency and includes claims, speculation, and personal remarks that Epstein shared with associates, journalists, and his accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell.
The files were released in two parts – House Democrats first put out a selection of emails that included Epstein’s comments about Trump.
Hours after that, Republicans responded by releasing what they claimed were roughly 20,000 additional pages.
Both sets of documents were released through the House Oversight Committee in Washington, a powerful watchdog body in Congress that examines government conduct.
Following the release, House Speaker Mike Johnson has said he will allow a vote next week that could force Trump’s Department of Justice to release all documents in the infamous ‘Epstein Files’.
What Epstein’s email with Ghislaine Maxwell says
One of the earliest emails released was sent to Maxwell in 2011. In it, Epstein wrote: ‘I want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is Trump.
‘[VICTIM] spent hours at my house with him, he has never once been mentioned.’ He added that he was ’75 percent there.’ Maxwell replied: ‘I have been thinking about that…’
Donald Trump and his wife Melania in a photograph with Jeffrey Epstein and his accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell in 2000. A trove of emails have revealed private emails the disgraced peadophile shared about Trump
One of the emails described Trump as the ‘dog that hasn’t barked’
In another exchange with Maxwell, Trump said he was the only one would would be ‘able to take him down’ when referencing Trump
The redacted name in that exchange was later shown in the wider tranche of documents to be Virginia, referring to Virginia Giuffre.
She died earlier this year and was one of the most well-known Epstein accusers. She said she worked at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida as a teenager but consistently stated that she never saw or experienced any wrongdoing involving Trump.
Giuffre repeated that position in a 2016 deposition and again in a memoir published this year.
In another correspondence from 2018, sent while Trump was in office and facing heavy scrutiny from political opponents, Epstein wrote: ‘They’re really just trying to take down Trump and doing whatever they can to do that!’
‘He then added: ‘Its wild, because i am the one able to take him down.’
In February 2019, Epstein told another contact that Trump was aware of what occurred inside his home, stating: ‘Trump knew of it. and came to my house many times during that period. He never got a massage.’
He also wrote: ‘Donald is close to no one. He talks to many people. He tells each one something.’
Epstein’s emails with Michael Wolff about Trump
A separate message from that year to author Michael Wolff contained yet another allegation, with Epstein saying: ‘of course he knew about the girls as he asked Ghislaine to stop.’
Epstein exchanged extensive correspondence with Wolff over several years.
Wolff, who recorded long conversations with Epstein during the 2010s for book projects about Trump and American politics, frequently asked Epstein about the former president’s rise.
In one 2015 email, Wolff warned Epstein that CNN was planning to question Trump about their relationship during a Republican primary debate. Epstein asked: ‘If we were able to craft an answer for him, what do you think it should be?’
Wolff replied that Epstein should allow Trump to handle it unaided, writing: ‘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.’
Epstein’s messages with author Michael Wolff were also released
He added: ‘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.’
The newly released documents also include a 2016 exchange in which Wolff offered Epstein an opportunity to publicly speak out about Trump during the final days of the presidential race, saying the interview could ‘finish’ him. Epstein declined.
Democrats also published a 2019 email where Epstein wrote to Wolff: ‘Trump said he asked me to resign’, referring to Trump’s social club in Florida, before adding: ‘never a member ever.’
He then repeated his claim that ‘of course he knew about the girls as he asked Ghislaine to stop.’
Committee Republicans, responding to the Democratic release, said the initial selection of emails had been curated to promote what they called a misleading narrative about Trump.
They released a much larger batch of files, including many exchanges where Epstein criticised Trump, reflected on his political rise or shared gossip with reporters.
Among those was a 2015 message to New York Times journalist Thomas Landon Jr in which Epstein asked: ‘Would you like photos of Donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen?’
In another, he wrote: ‘Have them ask my houseman about Donald almost walking through the door leaving his nose print on the glass as young women were swimming in the pool. He was so focused he walked straight into the door.’
Epstein’s emails about Bill Clinton
Further emails released by the House Oversight Committee also shed new light on Epstein’s contacts with Kathryn Ruemmler, a former White House counsel under Barack Obama and one of the executors of his estate.
Their correspondence, included in the material published by Democrats, shows Epstein discussing his past dealings with Bill Clinton and claiming at one stage to have cut off contact with the former president.
Former US president Bill Clinton shakes hands with Epstein at the White House while Ghislaine Maxwell looks on in 1993. Emails released show that the two men had a falling out
Epstein said in an email that he stopped talking to Clinton
In an exchange about an individual referred to as ‘McGyver’, a codename that appears elsewhere in their messages, Epstein joked that his ‘memory is a friend killer’ before alleging that Clinton had misled him.
He wrote: ‘I stopped talking to Clinton when he swore, with whole-hearted conviction to me that he had done something, he had forgotten that he also swore the exact opposite to me only weeks before.’
The documents also include an email from 2018 in which theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss asked Epstein to help assemble what he called a ‘Men of the World Conference’, listing Clinton, Kevin Spacey, Woody Allen and Senator Al Franken as proposed participants.
The message highlights the long scrutiny surrounding Epstein’s links to prominent political figures and celebrities.
Epstein’s relationship with Clinton has been the subject of repeated public debate, most recently after a birthday greeting from Clinton to Epstein surfaced in previous disclosures.
Following the latest release, a spokesperson for Clinton told the New York Post: ‘Who knows what they’re talking about. What we do know and have always said is that President Clinton knew nothing about Epstein’s heinous crimes and hadn’t spoken to him in twenty years. Now here it is in black and white.’
Clinton has consistently said he was unaware of Epstein’s criminal activities.
Andrew’s email to Epstein
Another document released by the committee refers to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly Prince Andrew, and shows his reaction to allegations passed to him through Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell in early 2011.
The material includes an email Maxwell forwarded to Epstein containing a request for comment from the Mail on Sunday.
The newspaper had contacted her on 4 March with a list of claims involving Maxwell, Epstein and the then Duke of York.
The published documents show that Epstein forwarded the message to Andrew, prompting a quick and forceful reply.
He wrote: ‘Hey there! What’s all this? I don’t know anything about this! You must SAY so please. This has NOTHING to do with me. I can’t take any more of this.’
According to the right of reply email, a woman whose name is redacted was said to have been introduced to Andrew by Epstein in 2001 at Maxwell’s London property, where she alleged she had sex with him.
The committee documents confirm that the Mail on Sunday story ran two days later on 6 March 2011 and featured the now widely circulated photograph of Andrew with Virginia Giuffre.
Andrew has always denied any wrongdoing and has never been charged with any offence.
Following the publication of the documents, the White House said Democrats had selectively released information to negative media outlets to construct a false narrative.
Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt pointed out that Trump had removed Epstein from Mar-a-Lago years earlier, saying the former president acted because Epstein was ‘a creep’ towards female staff.
The White House’s press secretary issued a statement that Democrats had selectively released information to negative media outlets to peddle a false narrative
Virginia Guiffre, centre, seen outside a court in Manhattan, was named as the redacted victim at the centre of the emails
She reiterated that Giuffre had never accused Trump of any abuse and had even said he ‘couldn’t have been friendlier’ during the rare occasions they encountered each other.
The release of the documents has reignited calls among Epstein’s victims for full transparency.
Annie Farmer, a key witness at Maxwell’s trial, issued a public statement saying: ‘The more information that comes out about Jeffrey Epstein, the more questions we’re left with. Survivors deserve more than a trickle of information.’
She demanded the publication of the full cache of Epstein-related material, arguing that ‘the estimated one thousand women and girls who were harmed by Epstein and his associates deserve full transparency.’
On Wednesday, Speaker Johnson told reporters that he would finally permit a vote on the release of the files, ending a huge standoff on the issue.
Speaking at Capitol Hill, he said: ‘We’re going to put that on the floor for a full vote when we get back next week.’
