Epstein Claimed Trump “Knew About the Girls” Months Before His Death

A shocking new set of emails from Jeffrey Epstein’s private correspondence has reignited questions about his ties to former President Donald Trump — and what Trump may have known.

The House Oversight Committee released the documents Tuesday, part of a 23,000-file trove obtained from the Epstein estate under congressional subpoena. Among the files: a 2019 email in which Epstein wrote that Trump “knew about the girls” he and Ghislaine Maxwell were accused of abusing.

The message, dated January 31, 2019, was sent from Epstein to journalist and author Michael Wolff. In it, Epstein appeared to mock Trump’s public claims that he had banned the financier from Mar-a-Lago after learning he was recruiting underage girls from the club’s spa.

“(Trump) said he asked me to resign. (I was) never a member ever,” Epstein wrote. “(Of) course he knew about the girls as he asked (Ghislaine) to stop.”

Epstein was found dead seven months later in his Manhattan jail cell while awaiting federal sex-trafficking charges — a death the Bureau of Prisons ruled a suicide but which has fueled years of conspiracy theories.

The newly revealed correspondence also includes a 2011 exchange between Epstein and Maxwell, in which Epstein cryptically described Trump as “the dog that hasn’t barked.”

“i want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is trump,” Epstein wrote to Maxwell. “(REDACTED) spent hours at my house with him. he has never once been mentioned.”

Maxwell replied, “I have been thinking about that…”

The conversation’s full context remains unclear. At the time, Epstein had already pleaded guilty in 2008 to soliciting prostitution from a minor in Florida — a deal widely condemned as a “sweetheart plea” that let him serve just 13 months in a private wing of a county jail, often on work release.

Trump and Epstein were once close social fixtures in Palm Beach and Manhattan circles, seen together at parties throughout the 1990s and early 2000s. In 2002, Trump told New York Magazine that Epstein was “a terrific guy” who liked women “on the younger side.”

But Trump later distanced himself after Epstein’s 2008 conviction. “I’m not a fan of his,” Trump said in 2019. “I haven’t spoken to him in 15 years.”

Still, critics argue Trump’s denial conflicts with reports that Epstein continued to visit Mar-a-Lago after his first arrest. The emails now raise fresh questions about what Trump might have known — and when.

Ghislaine Maxwell, currently serving a 20-year sentence for sex-trafficking minors, gave her own version of events during a 2023 meeting with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who previously served as Trump’s personal attorney.

According to Blanche’s notes, Maxwell said she had “never witnessed the President in any inappropriate setting in any way.”

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

The conflicting statements — Epstein’s email claiming Trump “knew,” and Maxwell’s defense of him years later — have reignited speculation about the former president’s proximity to the financier’s shadowy network.

House Democrats released the emails to increase pressure on the Justice Department to make public all Epstein-related material, amid growing demands from both sides of the aisle for transparency.

“Americans deserve to know the full scope of who Jeffrey Epstein was connected to,” said Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), a senior Oversight member. “Every name, every communication, every favor should see daylight.”

The alleged victim referenced in the 2011 email remains unidentified, her name redacted to protect her privacy.

As for Trump, he has not yet commented on the committee’s release. But one former federal prosecutor, speaking under condition of anonymity, said the emails “won’t be the last bombshell.”

“If Epstein kept this kind of record,” the source said, “we’re only seeing the tip of the iceberg.”