00:00epstein alleged in emails that trump knew of his conduct in a message obtained by congress
00:08the convicted sex offender jeffrey epstein wrote that donald j trump spent hours at his house with
00:13one of mr epstein's victims house democrats on wednesday released emails in which jeffrey
00:18epstein wrote that president trump had spent hours at my house with one of mr epstein's victims
00:23among other messages that suggested that the convicted sex offender believed mr trump knew
00:28more about his abuse than he has acknowledged mr trump has emphatically denied any involvement in
00:33or knowledge of mr epstein's sex trafficking operation he has said that he and mr epstein the
00:38disgraced financier who died by suicide in federal prison in 2019 were once friendly but had a
00:44falling out but democrats on the house oversight committee said the emails which they selected
00:49from thousands of pages of documents that were released by their panel on wednesday raised new
00:53questions about the relationship between the two men in one of the messages mr epstein flatly
00:58asserted that mr trump knew about the girls many of whom were later found by investigators to have
01:04been underage in another mr epstein pondered how to address questions from the news media about their
01:09relationship as mr trump was becoming a national political figure in a statement denouncing the
01:14release of the messages caroline levitt the white house press secretary identified the victim mentioned
01:19in one of them as virginia juffrey who died by suicide in april and had said that she did not
01:24think that mr trump had participated in the sexual abuse of minors at mr epstein's home the fact
01:29remains that president trump kicked jeffrey epstein out of his club decades ago for being a creep to his
01:34female employees including juffrey miss levitt said these stories are nothing more than bad faith
01:39efforts to distract from president trump's historic accomplishments and any american with common
01:44sense sees right through this hoax and clear distraction from the government opening back up again
01:48the messages are certain to inflame the debate on capitol hill over the trump administration's
01:53handling of the epstein files and top officials decision to backtrack on a promise to fully
01:57release all of its investigative material in the case that issue which has split republicans
02:02and alienated some of mr trump's right-wing supporters had faded to the background as the
02:07government shutdown dragged on but the house is set to return on wednesday to clear legislation to end
02:12the shutdown and attention is likely to shift back to the epstein matter these latest emails and
02:17correspondents raise glaring questions about what else the white house is hiding and the nature of
02:21the relationship between epstein and the president representative robert garcia of california the top
02:27democrat on the oversight committee said in a statement the emails were turned over to the
02:31committee in response to a set of subpoenas democrats effectively forced republicans to issue
02:36for files related to mr epstein so far the justice department has provided the panel with little that was
02:42not already public democrats and a few republicans have been pressing for a far broader set of
02:47disclosures from the administration's epstein investigation a move that mr trump and gop leaders
02:52in congress vehemently oppose the three separate email exchanges released on wednesday were all from
02:57after mr epstein's 2008 plea deal in florida on state charges of soliciting prostitution in which
03:03federal prosecutors agreed not to pursue charges they came years after mr trump and mr epstein had a
03:09reported falling out in the early 2000s one was addressed to mr epstein's longtime confidant
03:14gislaine maxwell while two were with the author michael wolf in one email from april 2011 mr epstein told
03:21ms maxwell who was later convicted on charges related to facilitating his crimes i want you to realize
03:27that that dog that hasn't barked is trump he added that an unnamed victim spent hours at my house with him
03:33he has never once been mentioned i have been thinking about that ms maxwell wrote back in an
03:39email from january 2019 mr epstein wrote to mr wolf of mr trump of course he knew about the girls as he
03:46asked gislaine to stop house democrats citing an unnamed whistleblower said this week that ms maxwell was
03:53preparing to formally ask mr trump to commute her federal prison sentence the emails were provided to
03:58the oversight committee along with a larger tranche of documents from mr epstein's estate that the panel
04:03requested as part of its investigation into mr epstein and ms maxwell who is serving a 20-year
04:08sentence on sex trafficking charges the committee's staff redacted victims names and any identifying
04:13information from the emails because the full set of documents has not been released it was not clear
04:19whether the emails have been excerpted from larger conversations that might have provided fuller
04:23context republicans on the oversight committee accused democrats of politicizing the investigation
04:29democrats continue to carelessly cherry-pick documents to generate clickbait that is not grounded
04:34in the facts a committee spokeswoman said the epstein estate has produced over 20 000 pages of
04:40documents on thursday yet democrats are once again intentionally withholding records that name
04:45democrat officials the republicans who have repeatedly cited their concern for protecting the identities of
04:50mr epstein's victims as a reason not to call for a full release of the administration's files in the
04:55case with a first on wednesday to name ms juffrey whose name was redacted in the emails ms juffrey had
05:01said that ms maxwell recruited her into mr epstein's sex ring while she was working at mar-a-lago
05:06mr trump's private club and residence in palm beach as a teenager in a 2016 deposition for a civil case
05:13ms juffrey was asked if she believed mr trump had witnessed the sexual abuse of minors in mr epstein's home
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05:25fossils show all the colors of the rainbow dear sonder guest your hotel is closed i don't think
05:32donald trump participated in anything she said i never saw or witnessed donald trump participate in
05:38those acts but was he in the house of jeffrey epstein ms juffrey added i've heard he has been but i
05:44haven't seen him myself so i don't know mr trump has called mr epstein a creep and has insisted he
05:50never engaged in any wrongdoing with him or ms maxwell he has condemned the continued questions
05:55about his handling of the case as a hoax perpetrated by democrats both mr trump and mr epstein split their
06:02time between new york and palm beach florida and they were friends in the 1990s and early 2000s
06:07their relationship appeared to fizzle out around 2004 though mr trump and those close to him have
06:13offered different accounts of why by one account they fell out after trying to outbid each other
06:18on a piece of palm beach real estate last summer mr trump said that mr epstein had hired away spa
06:24attendants at mar-a-lago he said that he had kicked mr epstein out of his club and that he believed one
06:30of the women was ms juffrey at the time mr epstein emailed ms maxwell in 2011 calling mr trump the dog
06:37that didn't bark mr trump was a reality television star and new york tabloid celebrity who was years away
06:42from becoming president
06:43from becoming president
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