First were three emails made public by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee. Then, more than 20,000 unfiltered documents released by his Republican rivals on that committee. This Wednesday, the millionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein once again placed himself at the center of Washington news with a crack through which to peer into his murky universe through the papers that Congress has been obtaining in waves from his family since August.
one of the three emails The one who inaugurated the day is for her friend and recruiter Ghislaine Maxwell, an accomplice in a sex trafficking network with hundreds of underage victims, acts for which she is serving 20 years in prison. The other two are addressed to journalist Michael Wolff.
In Maxwell’s, Epstein mentions in 2011 a victim whose name is blacked out, of whom he says: “He spent several hours with (President Donald) Trump at my house.” Also: “I want you to realize that the dog that has not yet barked is Trump,” in reference to the fact that the then real estate magnate “had not (had) mentioned even once” his meeting with that victim.
The White House later claimed that it was Virginia Giuffre, who committed suicide this year, a month after surviving being hit by a bus in Australia, where she lived. In the past, she said she had never seen Trump participate in her attacker’s crimes.
In one of the emails to Wolff, from 2019, the financier, who died that year in a maximum security cell while awaiting trial, suggests that the now president of the United States was aware of his behavior. “Of course he knew about the girls, since he told Ghislaine to stop.” The third exchange is from 2015, during the first campaign that brought the real estate mogul and reality TV star to the White House. In it, Epstein suggests the journalist use what he knows about the candidate to blackmail him.
Trump and his followers accused the Democrats of cherry-picking certain emails to harm the president. In response to the gesture of his rivals, Republican James Comer, who heads the House Oversight Committee, decided to release all the papers that came into his possession last week, which he linked in a tweet. That link leads to an impractical repository of documents that is frankly difficult to track.
Over the hours, the distillation of that information bore fruit, thanks to a patient review and the screening work of the American media.
Confidences with an Obama advisor
Trump is mentioned non-stop in these more than 20,000 documents, although there are no email exchanges between the two, who were friends for 15 years and broke up their relationship around 2004.
On one occasion, Epstein refers to the then-president as someone “on the verge of insanity.” In another, he says that he is “like a fucking goat” after learning the news, at the beginning of his first term, that he had ordered a ban on entry into the United States for citizens of seven Muslim countries.
Although perhaps the most succulent email is the one that the financier sends in 2018 to Kathryn Ruemmler, who was a White House advisor during the presidency of Barack Obama: “I know how dirty Donald is,” he writes about the possible scandals that could come to light about Trump, after Michael Cohen, a former confidant, pleaded guilty to federal crimes related to the financing of the presidential campaign that Hillary Clinton lost. As part of a cooperation agreement with prosecutors, Cohen implicated Trump in a 2016 bribery scheme that involved payments to porn actress Stormy Daniels to cover up an alleged extramarital affair, which Trump denies. In 2023, the then-Republican candidate ended up sentenced to 34 felonies in that case.
The material released this Wednesday also offers new data on the relationships with characters close to the financier, old acquaintances from the web of abuses and influences of this, as well as appearances of less recurring names in that universe, such as the national-populist ideologue Steve Bannon, to whom Epstein offers advice to disembark in Europe, or Peter Thiel, founder of PayPal and close ally of the vice president, JD Vance. Thiel receives an invitation to visit the millionaire pedophile’s private island, the place where he committed dozens, perhaps hundreds, of his abuses. Thiel has declared to Political who never accepted the offer.
Epstein follows Trump closely (with Wolff)
Wolff wrote to the millionaire pedophile shortly before Trump’s electoral victory in the 2016 elections, in what appears to be an offer to harm him in the final stretch of the campaign. “This week you have the opportunity to talk about Trump in a way that could earn you a lot of sympathy and contribute to his downfall. Are you interested?” the journalist tells him. It is not the only document in which both fantasize about overthrowing the then candidate with supposedly compromising information of which there is no trace in the new documents.
These revelations do not leave the journalist in a very good light, who at times appears to be an image advisor to Epstein. Author of several books about Trump (and another about the financier), Wolff published a video on Instagram this Wednesday in which he says: “I have been trying to talk about this story for a long time. (Epstein and the president of the United States) maintained a close relationship for more than a decade. Perhaps we are close to irrefutable proof.”
In these emails there is also other evidence that Epstein closely followed the developments of his old friend, such as when a collaborator passes him information about Trump’s finances or in another email he is interested in the confirmation process of Alex Acosta as Secretary of Labor.
When he was a federal prosecutor in South Florida, Acosta agreed to bury Epstein’s first trial with a lenient deal that allowed the defendant, who spent only 13 months behind bars, to plead guilty to two state crimes. He also granted him immunity from being prosecuted under federal law for sexual trafficking of minors, because, Acosta later said, he saw it as unlikely that prosecutors would be successful in a hypothetical trial. That agreement, which allowed Epstein to continue abusing minors for another decade, was what prevented Acosta from becoming part of Trump’s cabinet.
Advice about women to Larry Summers
If the publication of the documents has served any purpose, it is to certify the harmony between Epstein and Lawrence Summers, a prominent economist who worked in the Administrations of Bill Clinton and Barack Obama and later was rector of Harvard University.
It was already known that she had had a relationship with the financier (a relationship that she later publicly regretted), but it was not known that she had continued to maintain such regular contacts with him between 2017 and 2019, years after Epstein’s first (soft) conviction for a crime related to prostitution and also after the Miami Herald resurrected the case against him with a series of investigative reports. Its publication led to Epstein’s second prosecution, when federal prosecutors in New York accused him in 2019, and in the heat of the Me Too movement, of sex trafficking for events that occurred between 2002 and 2005 in Miami and New York.
In those exchanges, there is a lot of talk about Summers’ relationship with a London woman about whom Epstein gives him advice. They’re also about Trump. In an email from 2017, the economist says that he has been to Saudi Arabia, and that he returns with the impression that officials in that country think that “Donald is an increasingly dangerous clown in foreign policy.” In other messages, they plan a donation from Epstein to a project related to Harvard and the economist’s wife, Elisa F. New.
From these dozens of emails exchanged between the two, it is not possible to conclude that Summers knew anything about Epstein’s crimes.
Former Prince Andrew: “Say it has NOTHING to do with me.”
Andrés Mountbatten Windsor’s relationship with Maxwell and Epstein and Giuffre’s accusations caused the Duke of York’s gradual fall from grace, which led to the decision of his brother, King Charles III, to strip him of the title of prince last October.
In the batch of more than 20,000 documents, there is a message from 2011 in which the then prince responds in an email that Maxwell forwarded to him through Epstein. It has to do with the British newspaper Mail on Sunday, who has just asked the financier for a response to the accusations of sexual abuse that his reporters are about to publish. Andrés from England answers: “Hello! What is all this? I don’t know anything! Please say it. This has NOTHING to do with me. I can’t take it anymore.”
On March 6, 2011, the Mail on Sunday published an article with a photograph of Prince Andrew and Guiffre, the victim who recently committed suicide. The Duke of York maintains that he never committed any crime. In Giuffre’s recently published posthumous memoirs, she describes the three occasions on which she was forced to be a sexual slave to the prince, whom she defines as a man “very aware of his privileges,” who was convinced that “he had a birthright” to have relations with her.
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