{"id":7409,"date":"2025-11-12T22:14:56","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T22:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/2025\/11\/12\/epsteins-emails-stir-new-doubts-over-trumps-past-denials-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T22:14:56","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T22:14:56","slug":"epsteins-emails-stir-new-doubts-over-trumps-past-denials-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/2025\/11\/12\/epsteins-emails-stir-new-doubts-over-trumps-past-denials-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Epstein\u2019s emails stir new doubts over Trump\u2019s past denials – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Their content is cryptic and raises more questions than answers.<\/p>\n

Yet the tranche of emails on the Jeffrey Epstein<\/a> affair released by Democrats in the House of Representatives show enough contradictions between their references to Donald Trump<\/a> and the US president\u2019s own previous utterances on the subject to fan a fresh wave of speculation and guesswork.<\/p>\n

An email sent by Epstein in April 2011 to Ghislaine Maxwell captures the intriguingly ambiguous tone.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want you to realize that that dog that hasn\u2019t barked is Trump,\u201d Epstein writes.<\/p>\n

Maxwell writes back: \u201cI\u2019ve been thinking about that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cVictim [name redacted] spent hours at my house with him ,, he has never once been mentioned.\u201d The White House has since identified the victim as Virginia Giuffre.<\/p>\n

Another Epstein email in January 2019 to the writer Michael Wolff \u2013 author of several books on Trump\u2019s presidency \u2013 is more direct, yet tantalizingly incomplete.<\/p>\n

Once again mentioning a victim\u2019s redacted name, it makes an unexplained reference to \u201cMara Lago\u201d [sic], Trump\u2019s Florida home and club, before going on to say, \u201cTrump says he asked me to resign, never a member ever.\u201d<\/p>\n

That comment may refer to reports<\/a> that Trump once banned Epstein from Mar-a-Lago \u2013 according to some reports, for allegedly trying to seduce the teenage daughter of another member.<\/p>\n

Trump told reporters during his first presidency in July 2019 that he had banned Epstein but did not explain the reasons. \u201cI did have a falling out a long time ago,\u201d he said. \u201cThe reason doesn\u2019t make any difference, frankly.\u201d<\/p>\n

He has repeated the assertion several times while trying to dissociate himself from a man he once praised lavishly.<\/p>\n

Last summer, he said he had expelled Epstein for luring spa attendants away from Mar-a-Lago. Other accounts have suggested that the two men fell out after getting into a competitive bidding war over the same property in Palm Beach in 2004.<\/p>\n

In the email to Wolff, Epstein adds: \u201cOf course he knew about the girls as he asked Ghislaine to stop.\u201d<\/p>\n

While what Maxwell was asked to stop is unexplained, the assertion that Trump \u201cknew about the girls\u201d could raise doubts about the truthfulness of the president\u2019s previous statements.<\/p>\n

Asked in the same 2019 encounter with journalists if he had \u201cany suspicions that [Epstein] was molesting \u2026 underaged women\u201d, Trump responded: \u201cNo, I had no idea. I had no idea. I haven\u2019t spoken to him in many, many years.\u201d<\/p>\n

That comment \u2013 while Epstein was in federal custody awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges \u2013 sits uneasily with what Trump told New York magazine in 2002.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy,\u201d he said. \u201cHe\u2019s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it \u2013 Jeffrey enjoys his social life.\u201d<\/p>\n

An email exchange released Wednesday between Epstein and Wolff in December 2015 \u2013 when Trump was running for the Republicans\u2019 presidential nomination \u2013 alludes to damage that the pair\u2019s past ties could cause Trump.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think you should let him hang himself,\u201d writes Wolff. \u201cIf he says he hasn\u2019t been on the plane or in the house, then that gives you a valuable PR or political currency.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou 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.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course, it is possible that, when asked, he\u2019ll say Jeffrey is a great guy and has gotten a raw deal and is victim of political correctness, which is to be outlawed in a Trump regime.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since Epstein\u2019s death and as revelations of his underage sex trafficking have proliferated, Trump has, on the contrary, tried to wash his hands of his once close friend \u2013 while emphasizing Epstein\u2019s close ties to Bill Clinton.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know [Clinton] was on his plane 27 times, and he said he was on the plane four times \u2026 And then the question you have to ask is: Did Bill Clinton go to the island?, Trump said in 2019 referring to an island owned by Epstein.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause Epstein had an island that was not a good place, as I understand it. And I was never there. So you have to ask: Did Bill Clinton go to the island? If you find that out, you\u2019re going to know a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Rolling Stone<\/a>, an unsealed document disclosed that Clinton and Trump flew on Epstein\u2019s plane.<\/p>\n

Trump in recent years has gone out his way to express disdain for Epstein.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was not a fan of Jeffrey Epstein<\/a> \u2026 I threw him out of a club. I didn\u2019t want anything to do with him. That was many, many years ago. It shows you one thing: that I have good taste. OK? Now, other people, they went all over with him. They went to his island. They went all over the place.\u201d<\/p>\n

He has also indulged conspiracy theories circulating among his Maga supporters that Epstein\u2019s death in a Manhattan prison cell may not have been suicide.<\/p>\n

Asked by the rightwing broadcaster Tucker Carlson in 2023 if Epstein may have been murdered, he said: \u201cI don\u2019t know \u2026 it\u2019s possible. I mean, I don\u2019t really believe \u2013 I think he probably committed suicide.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut there are those people, there are many people \u2013 I think you\u2019re one of them, right? But a lot of people think that he was killed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Amid the clamor to release the files, Trump was ambiguous \u2013 fanning unease that the latest email releases is unlikely to quell.<\/p>\n

Asked by Fox News during the 2024 presidential election campaign if he would release the Epstein files \u2013 along with the John F Kennedy and the September 11 attack files \u2013 he equivocated.<\/p>\n

\u201cI guess I would. I think that less so because you don\u2019t want to affect people\u2019s lives if it\u2019s phony stuff in there, because it\u2019s a lot of phony stuff with that whole world,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t know about Epstein so much as I do the others.\u201d<\/p>\n

With segments of his base angered by the reneging on that vague promise, he has hit out at journalists and his opponents.<\/p>\n

\u201cAre you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein? This guy\u2019s been talked about for years,\u201d he told a reporter who asked Pam Bondi, the attorney general, about the files at a cabinet meeting in July.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t believe you\u2019re asking a question on Epstein at a time like this, where we\u2019re having some of the greatest success and also tragedy with what happened in Texas [where deadly floods had happened.] It just seems like a desecration.\u201d<\/p>\n

He has also called the files a hoax and a creation of his political opponents, including Barack Obama.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey created the Epstein Files, just like they created the FAKE Hillary Clinton\/Christopher Steele Dossier that they used on me, and now my so-called \u2018friends\u2019 are playing right into their hands,\u201d he posted on his Truth Social platform. \u201cWhy didn\u2019t these Radical Left Lunatics release the Epstein Files? If there was ANYTHING in there that could have hurt the MAGA Movement, why didn\u2019t they use it?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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