Jeffrey Epstein

NY Times -  President Trump’s long friendship with Jeffrey Epstein came to an apparent end in the mid-2000s. But Mr. Epstein remained intently focused on Mr. Trump for years afterward, seeking to exploit the remnants of their relationship up until his arrest on federal sex-trafficking charges in 2019.

In more than 20,000 pages of Mr. Epstein’s typo-strewn emails and other messages released by a congressional committee on Wednesday, Mr. Epstein insulted Mr. Trump and hinted that he had damaging information on him.

By turns gossipy, scathing and scheming, the messages show influential people pressing Mr. Epstein for insight into Mr. Trump, and Mr. Epstein casting himself as the ultimate Trump translator, someone who knew him intimately and was “the one able to take him down.”

The Guardian - Newly released Jeffrey Epstein emails have cast further doubt on Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s account of when he cut ties with the child sex offender and his denials about meeting his accuser Virginia Giuffre.

In March 2011, four months after he later claimed to have ended his relationship with Epstein, the former prince told him and the convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell: “I can’t take any more of this,” in response to allegations put to him by the Mail on Sunday...

In her posthumous memoir, Giuffre alleged she was forced to have sex with the former prince three times – once at Maxwell’s home in London, once at Epstein’s address in Manhattan, and once on the disgraced financier’s private island, Little St James. 

Jeffrey Epstein Called Donald Trump 'Borderline Insane' and Questioned If He Had 'Early Dementia' in Emails Before Death 

New Republic -  Newly released emails suggest that President Donald Trump may have spent his first Thanksgiving in office accompanied by none other than Jeffrey Epstein.

The Guardian -  In a rare break from Trump, Republican House speaker, Mike Johnson, said that he didn’t believe that the Epstein case was a “hoax” and called for the release of the case documents, and some of Trump’s supporters burned their Maga hats...

Trump, who was friendly with Epstein for at least 15 years before having a falling out in 2004, has consistently denied any knowledge of or involvement in Epstein’s criminal activities. Still, Trump’s past association with Epstein continues to haunt him politically, and in recent months he has found himself embroiled in headline after headline regarding his past ties to the disgraced financier....

Democrats on the committee said that the emails were part of more than 23,000 documents turned over by Epstein’s estate as part of their ongoing investigation into Epstein and that they are still reviewing the documents.....

The release of previously unseen emails sent by convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has thrust Donald Trump back into the center of the long-running Epstein controversy that has plagued his administration for months, inflamed parts of his own political base and offered Democrats an ongoing line of political attack.

On Wednesday, Democrats on the House oversight and government reform committee released email exchanges from 2011, 2015 and 2019 that they say were provided by the estate of the late Epstein, who died by suicide in federal prison in 2019 while awaiting trial on federal charges of sex-trafficking minors.

NBC News -  Jeffrey Epstein referenced Trump in emails to his associate Ghislaine Maxwell and a journalist, claiming in one that Trump "knew about the girls," according to emails released by House Democrats. Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released three email chains, sent between 2011 and 2019, saying the documents came from the late convicted sex offender's estate as part of the committee's investigation into the Epstein case.

The emails also showed Epstein saying Clinton had "never" been to his private island, despite Trump's claims to the contrary. Trump and Clinton have both denied any wrongdoing and have never been charged with any criminal activity. 

 

NPR - Epstein mocked Trump and even wrote a note saying there isn’t one decent cell in Trump’s body to former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, NPR’s Stephen Fowler tells Up First. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the release of the emails proves nothing. 

 

Hartmann Report - The Epstein Affair Has Moved From Sleaze to a Crisis for American Democracy Itself