"Of Course, Trump Knew About the Girls" New Epstein Emails Reveal

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“Of course, Trump knew about the girls”.

That is the sentiment rippling through the political sphere since Democrats on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform released compromising emails on Wednesday. The messages, exchanged between Jeffrey Epstein, his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, and journalist Michael Wolff, among others offer a new dimension to the long-standing allegations.

The released emails are a sample from a batch of more than 23,000 documents the committee recently obtained from the Epstein Estate via subpoena. Their significance lies in what others lacked: unlike the documents from civil lawsuits or Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial, these contain the first direct allegations of misconduct linked to Donald Trump.

An exchange between journalist Wolff and Epstein in 2015 regarding Trump’s appearance on CNN

A 2018 exchange between Jeffrey Epstein and his brother, Mark

An exchange between Epstein and Maxwell, before the start of Trump's election campaign in 2012

An email exchange between Wolf and Epstein from 2019, the year Epstein died

An exchange between NYT journalist Thomas London and Epstein

Sources: images 1, 2, and 3; images 4 and 5

The news spread like wildfire. At the lunchtime briefing, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was quick to dismiss the revelations as a calculated political manoeuvre. She asserted the release was a “manufactured hoax” meant to distract from the Republican-led effort to reopen the government.

“This administration has done more than any, and it just shows how this is truly a manufactured hoax by the Democrat party,” Leavitt said. “There are no coincidences in Washington DC. It is not a coincidence that the Democrats leaked these emails to the fake news this morning ahead of Republicans reopening the government.”

She concluded by stating the emails “prove absolutely nothing other than the fact that President Trump did nothing wrong,” a claim made despite a growing pile of evidence suggesting otherwise.

Meanwhile, Trump took to his social media platform, Truth Social, to urge House members to focus solely on the upcoming vote to reopen the government. “There should be no deflections to Epstein or anything else,” he wrote, “and any Republicans involved should be focused only on opening up our Country, and fixing the massive damage caused by the Democrats!”

However, Washington had other plans. A bipartisan petition for the Epstein Files Transparency Act had just reached the signature threshold required to force a House vote. The Act would require the Department of Justice to publish all unclassified records, documents, communications, and investigative materials related to the Epstein investigation in a searchable, downloadable format. The House is, as of the time of writing, scheduled to vote on the bill this week. However, the bill has a few more obstacles to overcome before coming into force: it must be approved by the Senate and receive a signature from Donald Trump. It is speculated that the Senate will approve the bill, but what comes after remains uncertain. One thing is for certain, as the final signer of the petition proclaimed: “Justice cannot wait another day.”

In response to the bill's growing momentum, Trump had launched an effort to control the narrative. He has publicly called upon allies like Pam Bondi and federal agencies to investigate Democrats and institutions such as Bill Clinton, Larry Summers, and J.P. Morgan Chase among others. Concurrently, he has pressured House members such as Lauren Boebert and Nancy Mace to withdraw their signatures for the petition to release the Epstein files. This stands in contrast to his own public silence, where he has declined to answer any press questions regarding the Epstein emails.

As more evidence surfaces about Trump’s involvement with Epstein, a troubling question emerges: has the possibility of a presidential pardon for Maxwell increased? Given Trump’s recent mass pardons pertaining to those involved in the January 6th incident and his allies, which bypassed traditional waiting times and review, and considering Ghislaine Maxwell’s recent transfer to a minimum-security prison, close-door meeting with Trump’s previous lawyer Todd Blanche and her overturned appeal from the Supreme Court, the podium for a potential deal seems to emerge. Giving her clemency could serve as powerful political leverage, ensuring her silence and denial of his role in sex trafficking. Alarming patterns seem to be emerging; doesn’t this all smell a little like a cover-up?