President Donald Trump responded to emails released by House Democrats on Wednesday morning that show convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein discussing the president, arguing that the move is the Democratic Party’s attempt to distract from its failure on the government shutdown.
Trump was named in multiple Epstein emails that were released by House Democrats, including one from 2019 in which Epstein claimed that Trump “knew about the girls.” Democrats argued that the revelations “raise serious questions about Donald Trump and his knowledge of Epstein’s horrific crimes.” The president shot back at Democrats in a Truth Social post shortly after the emails were made public.
“The Democrats are trying to bring up the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax again because they’ll do anything at all to deflect on how badly they’ve done on the Shutdown, and so many other subjects. Only a very bad, or stupid, Republican would fall into that trap,” Trump wrote. “The Democrats cost our Country $1.5 Trillion Dollars with their recent antics of viciously closing our Country, while at the same time putting many at risk — and they should pay a fair price. There should be no deflections to Epstein or anything else, and any Republicans involved should be focused only on opening up our Country, and fixing the massive damage caused by the Democrats!”
Earlier on Wednesday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt pushed back with context that appears to undermine the Democrats’ release.
Leavitt said that the redacted victim mentioned in the email is Virginia Giuffre, who died by suicide earlier this year. Giuffre had previously said that she did not believe Trump took part in Epstein’s sexual abuse of minors.
“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,” Leavitt said in a statement obtained by Daily Wire White House Correspondent Mary Margaret Olohan.
After the Democrats released three emails on Wednesday, House GOP Oversight released an additional 20,000 pages of documents received from Epstein’s estate.
NEW: @PressSec on today’s Epstein news: “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…
— Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) November 12, 2025
The emails released show Epstein discussing Trump with his fixer, Ghislaine Maxwell, in which Epstein claimed that Trump “spent hours” at Epstein’s home with one of the sexual abusers’ victims.
Epstein wrote that Trump “knew about the girls” in an email he sent to author Michael Wolff on January 31, 2019, less than seven months before Epstein was found dead in what authorities say was a suicide in his New York jail cell.
“[T]rump said he asked me to resign, never a member ever,” the email to Wolff states. “[O]f course he knew about the girls as he asked ghislaine [sic] to stop.”
Epstein’s email appears to be addressing Trump’s move to force him out of his club at Mar-a-Lago. Trump, who was a friend of Epstein’s in the 1990s and early 2000s, reportedly kicked Epstein out of his club in 2007, just months before the wealthy financier pled guilty in Florida to state charges of soliciting a prostitute under 18 years old.
In another email released by Democrats on Wednesday, Epstein claimed that Trump “spent hours” at Epstein’s home with one of the sexual abuser’s victims.
“[I] want you to realize that the dog that hasn’t barked is trump [sic]. [REDACTED] spent hours at my house with him, has never once been mentioned. [P]olice chief. etc. [I’m] 75% there.”
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