The Trump White House undercut House Democrats\u2019 disingenuous release Wednesday of three salacious-seeming emails from convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein \u2014 revealing that a victim who the disgraced financier claimed \u201cspent hours\u201d with the future president had already vouched for his conduct. <\/p>\n
On April 2, 2011, Epstein described Trump in a message to his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell \u2014 who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex trafficking conspiracy and other charges<\/a> \u2014 as \u201cthat dog that hasn\u2019t barked,\u201d adding that a victim whose name was redacted \u201cspent hours at my house with him [and] he has never once been mentioned.\u201d<\/p>\n Moments later, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt fired back at the release by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee. <\/p>\n Jeffrey Epstein wrote that Donald Trump \u201cknew about the girls as he asked [G]hislaine to stop.\u201d Getty Images<\/p>\n \u201cThe Democrats selectively leaked emails to the liberal media to create a fake narrative to smear President Trump,\u201d Leavitt told The Post in a statement. \u201cThe \u2018unnamed victim\u2019 referenced in these emails is the late Virginia Giuffre<\/a>, who repeatedly said President Trump was not involved in any wrongdoing whatsoever and \u2018couldn\u2019t have been friendlier\u2019 to her in their limited interactions.<\/p>\n \u201cThe fact remains that President Trump kicked Jeffrey Epstein out of his club decades ago for being a creep to his female employees, including Giuffre,\u201d Leavitt added. \u201cThese stories are nothing more than bad-faith efforts to distract from President Trump\u2019s historic accomplishments, and any American with common sense sees right through this hoax and clear distraction from the government opening back up again.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWhy did Democrats cover up the name when the [Epstein] Estate didn\u2019t redact it in the redacted documents provided to the committee?\u201d the Oversight Committee\u2019s Republicans asked on X<\/a> in response to the release. \u201cIt\u2019s because this victim, Virginia Giuffre, publicly said that she never witnessed wrongdoing by President Trump.<\/p>\n \u201cDemocrats are trying to create a fake narrative to slander President Trump. Shame on them.\u201d<\/p>\n Giuffre, who went public with her accusations against Epstein in 2011, had worked as a spa attendant at Mar-a-Lago, where her father was a maintenance manager.<\/p>\n The late Virginia Giuffre, seen here holding a photo of herself as a teen, had previously said President Trump was never involved in any wrongdoing. TNS<\/p>\n At some point in 2000, Giuffre, then 16, met Maxwell, who offered her a job working for Epstein as a traveling masseuse. In her posthumous memoir, \u201cNobody\u2019s Girl,\u201d Giuffre described being introduced to Trump by her father shortly before Maxwell and Epstein entered her life.<\/p>\n \u201cTrump couldn\u2019t have been friendlier,\u201d Giuffre wrote, \u201ctelling me it was fantastic that I was there.\u201d<\/p>\n Far from implicating Trump in any illegal activity, Giuffre recounted that he helped her make some extra money as a baby-sitter for wealthy families who rented out homes the real estate mogul owned on the Palm Beach property.<\/p>\n Epstein \u2014 seen in a video still with three females \u2014 also called Trump \u201cthat dog that hasn\u2019t barked\u201d in 2011. Florida State Attorney’s Office<\/p>\n In another email, written by Epstein to discredited author Michael Wolff<\/a> on Jan. 31, 2019 \u2014 less than six months before Epstein\u2019s arrest on federal sex trafficking charges \u2014 the sex criminal admitted that Trump told Maxwell<\/a> to stop plucking young girls from the spa at Mar-a-Lago to groom and abuse.<\/p>\n \u201c[T]rump said he asked me to resign,\u201d Epstein told Wolff. \u201c[I was] never a member ever.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201c[O]f course he knew about the girls as he asked [G]hislaine to stop.\u201d<\/p>\n Trump has insisted that renewed interest in the Epstein case is a \u201choax\u201d driven by Democrats to harm him politically after the Justice Department and FBI concluded over the summer<\/a> that the 66-year-old committed suicide and did not keep a \u201cclient list\u201d of wealthy and powerful allies to whom he trafficked girls as young as 14 \u2014 contrary to widespread public speculation.<\/p>\n