WASHINGTON, USA — Newly released emails from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein show that the late financier repeatedly referenced Donald Trump in private correspondence spanning more than a decade, including claims that the former president spent time with a woman whom Democrats on the House Oversight Committee describe as a victim of Epstein’s sex-trafficking network.
The emails, obtained earlier this year through a subpoena issued by Oversight Committee Democrats, were made public on Wednesday, November 12, 2025, — hours before the Republican-led committee released thousands more documents from the estate.
None of the messages was sent to or from Trump, and he has not been accused of any criminal wrongdoing in connection with Epstein or Ghislaine Maxwell.
Among the disclosures is an April 2, 2011 email in which Epstein wrote 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…”
Republican members of the committee identified the redacted name as Virginia Giuffre, one of Epstein’s most well-known survivors, who died by suicide earlier this year.
They accused Democrats of withholding her name because she had never accused Trump of misconduct.
In her memoir, Nobody’s Girl, Giuffre wrote about working at Mar-a-Lago in 2000, where she said Trump was friendly to her and once asked whether she babysat for families staying in properties near the resort.
She did not accuse him of wrongdoing.
Another email from January 2019 shows Epstein corresponding with author Michael Wolff during Trump’s presidency.
Responding to Trump’s claim that he had asked Epstein to resign his membership at Mar-a-Lago, Epstein wrote: “trump said he asked me to resign … never a member ever. . of course he knew about the girls as he asked Ghislaine to stop.”
The White House has previously said Trump barred Epstein from the club “for being a creep”, and Trump himself has argued that Epstein “stole” young women who worked at the Mar-a-Lago spa.
In an interview with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche earlier this year, Maxwell said she “never witnessed the President in any inappropriate setting in any way,” adding that Trump “was a gentleman in all respects” during the times she saw him in social settings.
Additional emails released by the Oversight Committee show Epstein discussing media coverage of his relationship with Trump.
In a December 15, 2015 exchange, Wolff alerted Epstein that CNN might ask Trump about him during that night’s Republican primary debate.
Epstein responded by asking what Trump’s answer should be.
Wolff replied: “I think you should let him hang himself … You can hang him in a way that potentially generates a positive benefit for you.”
In a separate trove released by Republicans on Wednesday, November 12, 2025, Epstein appeared to criticise Trump after he took office.
In a January 2017 email to a New York Times reporter, he wrote: “Donald is f**king crazy.”
In December 2018, in a message to former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, he called Trump “borderline insane,” and in another email to former Obama White House counsel Kathryn Ruemmler he warned of the dangers of treating Trump “like a mafia don” because “tightening the noose too slowly, risks a very bad situation.”
Trump and his allies responded to the latest disclosures with forceful denials.
Karoline Leavitt, White House press secretary, described the release as a “hoax” and said the emails “prove absolutely nothing, other than the fact that President Trump did nothing wrong.”
She accused Democrats of “selectively” releasing documents “to create a fake narrative to smear President Trump.”
In a series of posts on Truth Social, Trump accused Democrats of attempting to “bring up the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax again” to distract from political disputes in Washington.
He warned Republicans not to “fall into that trap,” as several GOP lawmakers have backed efforts to force a congressional vote to compel the Justice Department to release more government files related to Epstein.
Epstein’s relationship with Trump has faced renewed scrutiny as Congress presses for more transparency around the federal investigation into Epstein’s 2019 death, which Trump’s Justice Department concluded was suicide.
A bipartisan effort to force the release of additional records gained momentum on Wednesday when Representative Adelita Grijalva became the 218th signer of a discharge petition seeking a vote.
The extent to which the newly released documents will shape future congressional investigations remains unclear, but the volume of correspondence — including more than 20,000 pages released by the GOP-led committee — ensures Epstein’s dealings with powerful figures will remain a live political flashpoint.
