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(Washington) American sex offender Jeffrey Epstein claimed that Donald Trump “knew about girls” in a 2019 email attributed to the New York financier who died in prison the same year, and made public on Wednesday by Democratic lawmakers.
The White House, for its part, accused the opposition of wanting to “create a false narrative to smear President Trump.”
“Trump said he wanted me to give up” the membership card at Mar-a-Lago, the Florida residence of the American president, says Jeffrey Epstein in this email sent to journalist and author Michael Wolff. He clarifies that he was never a member of Mar-a-Lago and adds: “of course he knew about the girls, like he asked Ghislaine to stop.”
Ghislaine Maxwell, accomplice and former companion of Jeffrey Epstein, is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence for sexual exploitation.
The Democratic members of the influential Oversight Committee in the House of Representatives also published on
Virginia Giuffre
In a press release of which AFP obtained a copy, White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt identifies this victim as Virginia Giuffre, who ended her life in April at the age of 41 and whose posthumous memoir recounts attacks suffered while she was under the control of Jeffrey Epstein.
Virginia Giuffre “said on several occasions that President Trump had done nothing wrong and that he “could not have been friendlier” in the limited interactions they had,” said the spokesperson.
Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in 2019 in his cell, from suicide according to authorities, before his trial for sex crimes.
The American president has always denied having any knowledge of the criminal behavior of the man he was close to before falling out in the 2000s.
These emails, obtained through the financier’s heirs, “raise serious questions about Donald Trump and what he knew about Epstein’s horrible crimes,” say the elected Democrats behind their publication.
The powerful commission of which they are members is investigating the manner in which the federal state conducted the investigations and prosecutions against Jeffrey Epstein.
Their Republican counterparts lambasted the publication of the emails on Wednesday, accusing the opposition of wanting to “generate clicks” with arbitrarily chosen documents.
At the same time, they announced to publish “20,000 pages of additional documents” received from Jeffrey Epstein’s legatees.
Petition
The affair has inflamed the United States since Donald Trump’s government announced at the beginning of July that it had discovered no new elements justifying the publication of additional documents in this file.
His death has fueled countless conspiracy theories, according to which he was murdered to prevent him from implicating high-profile figures.
After promising his supporters during his presidential campaign shattering revelations, Donald Trump is now trying to put an end to the controversy, which he has repeatedly described as a “hoax” set up by the opposition.
A letter with lewd tones attributed to the Republican billionaire to the attention of Jeffrey Epstein for his birthday in 2003 was made public at the beginning of September by the same Democratic parliamentarians. The signature of the future American president appears at the foot of the note, in place of the pubis of a sketched woman.
The White House denied that Donald Trump was the author.
In Congress, the matter could see new developments in the days to come. A petition from elected officials should indeed reach the number of votes necessary to force a vote in the chamber on a text aimed at forcing the Trump administration to publish the files in its possession on Jeffrey Epstein.
