The White House has distanced United States President Donald Trump from leaked Jerry Epstein emails released by the U.S House of Representatives.
The White State claimed that the release of the three emails from convicted sex offender, Epstein, by House Democrats was an attempt to smear Trump’s image.
Pan-Atlantic Kompass reports that on Wednesday, leaked Epstein emails were released by Democrats on the Oversight Committee in the US House of Representatives.
The three emails showed alleged ties between Epstein and Trump.
However, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt accused Democrats of releasing the emails to “create a fake narrative to smear President Trump.”
Leavitt said: “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.
“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.
“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.”
Pan-Atlantic Kompass reports the leaked Epstein emails mentioned Trump several times in correspondence with long-time associate Ghislaine Maxwell, and in separate correspondence with writer Michael Wolff.
An email from Epstein to Maxwell in April 2011 alleged Trump “spent hours” with one of the victims, calling the US president the “dog that hasn’t barked”.
In a January 2019 email to Wolff, Epstein alleged Trump “knew about the girls because he asked Ghislaine to stop”.
Below is the excerpt from the December 2015 email exchange
“I hear CNN planning to ask Trump tonight about his relationship with you–either on air or in scrum afterwards,” Wolff allegedly says in an email to Epstein dated 15 December 2015, six months after Trump had declared he was running for the 2016 US presidential election.
Epstein replied to Wolff: “If we were to craft an answer for him, what do you think it should be?”
“I think you should let him hang himself,” Wolff wrote the following day. “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.”
At the time, Epstein had already pleaded guilty to sex offences in Florida as part of a deal with prosecutors.
January 2019 email
In a separate email from 31 January 2019, Epstein denies the US president’s claims that he had banished him from Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s Florida estate.
“Trump said he asked me to resign, never a member ever,” Epstein told Wolff. “Of course, he knew about the girls as he asked Ghislaine to stop,” he added, an apparent reference to Epstein’s former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell, who is now serving a 20-year sentence for trafficking girls to Epstein.
The latest revelation comes after Trump, following Epstein’s 2019 arrest on federal sex trafficking charges, distanced himself, stating he was “not a fan” and had not spoken to Epstein in 15 years (since about 2004).
He has also denied any knowledge of Epstein’s criminal activities and called investigations into the relationship a “hoax.”
However, there have been reports suggesting that Trump was allegedly close friends with Epstein. Reports had claimed that Trump and Epstein socialized frequently, moving in the same elite circles in New York and Palm Beach, Florida.
Flight logs also show Trump allegedly flew on Epstein’s private jet multiple times between 1993 and 1997.
In 2002, Trump was also quoted by New York magazine as calling Epstein a “terrific guy” and saying he’d known him for 15 years, adding, “It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”
