Jeffrey Epstein boasted: 'I am the one able to take him down', as he branded Donald Trump the 'dog who hasn’t barked' while claiming he spent 'hours' with a sex abuse victim, newly released emails reveal.
The messages show that the paedophile financier was willing to disclose damaging information about Trump.
The emails were among 20,000 documents released on Wednesday by the House Oversight Committee, with Republicans joining Democrats to make the material public.
They span from 2011 to 2019, months before Epstein was found dead in his prison cell.
In 2018, with Trump in the White House and facing constant probing from Democrats, Epstein made a shocking accusation about the man he called 'dirty.'
'They’re really just trying to take down Trump and doing whatever they can to do that!' Epstein wrote.
'Its wild, because i am the one able to take him down.’
Epstein also referred to Trump as the 'dog who hasn't barked' in an April 2011 email to Ghislaine Maxwell after Virginia Giuffre had gone public with her allegations.
'I want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is Trump. [VICTIM] spent hours at my house with him, he has never once been mentioned,' Epstein wrote, saying he was '75 percent there.'
Maxwell, who was convicted of sex trafficking after Epstein's death, replied: 'I have been thinking about that...'
The redacted [VICTIM] in the emails has been confirmed to be Giuffre, who committed suicide earlier this year and was recruited by Maxwell while employed as a spa attendant at the Mar-a-Lago Club in 2000 at 16 years old.
While Giuffre admitted to working at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago, she never alleged any illicit activity with the president.
It wasn't clear what Epstein meant by saying that Trump was a dog that 'hadn't barked,' but both he and Maxwell in other correspondence accused Giuffre of fabricating stories about her supposed sexual interactions with famous men.
Epstein also appears to admit Trump knew about the activities in his home, writing in February 2019: 'Trump knew of it. and came to my house many times during that period. He never got a massage.”
In another email, Epstein claimed: 'Donald is close to no one. He talks to many people. He tells each one something.'
In another email to author Michael Wolff in early 2019, Epstein allegedly wrote: 'of course he knew about the girls as he asked Ghislaine to stop.'
Shortly after Democrats released the Trump-related emails, committee Republicans countered by disclosing what they said was an additional 20,000 pages of documents from Epstein´s estate.
Among them were a trove of emails written over several years by Epstein, including many where he commented - often unfavorably - on Trump's rise in politics and corresponded with journalists.
In one letter, Epstein plotted to 'let Donald Trump hang himself' at the height of the 2016 presidential campaign, according to an explosive new email dump.
In a December 2015 exchange, Epstein told New York Times journalist Thomas Landon Jr that he had photos of Trump with bikini-clad girls in bikinis in his kitchen.
'Would you like photos of Donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen?' Epstein asked the journalist in an email.
In a follow-up exchange with the reporter, Epstein claimed Trump almost walked through a glass door because he was distracted by young women.
'Have them ask my houseman about Donald almost walking through the door leaving his nose print on the glass as young women were swimming in the pool,' Epstein wrote to Landon in December 2015.
'He was so focused he walked straight into the door.'
Wolff recorded over a hundred hours of conversation with Epstein from roughly 2014 to 2019 and described their contact as a working relationship for several major book projects, including Fire and Fury - an account of the first Trump administration .
The author emailed Epstein with the subject line 'heads up' on December 15, 2015 - the day of a Republican primary debate televised by CNN .
'I hear CNN planning to ask Trump tonight about his relationship with you – either on air or in scrum afterwards,' Wolff told the billionaire financier.
Epstein asked Wolff if he should help prepare an answer for the then-presidential candidate, but the author advised the billionaire financier that he should allow Trump to answer himself because his response could yield political capital.
'If we were able to craft an answer for him, what do you think it should be?' Epstein asked.
Wolff responded, 'I think you should let him hang himself. If he says he hasn't been on the plane or to the house, then that gives you a valuable PR and political currency.
'You 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.
'Of course, it is possible that, when asked, he'll say Jeffrey is a great guy and has gotten a raw deal and is a victim of political correctness, which is to be outlawed in a Trump regime.'
The Daily Mail has contacted Wolff for comment.
In January 2018, Epstein refers to a statement given in response to a Wolff tell-all about the Trump White House: 'No questions donalds statement was goofy. Early dementia?'
In another email between Epstein and Wolff in January 2019, the convicted sex offender refers to his expulsion from Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club.
'Trump said he asked me to resign,' Epstein wrote, adding, 'never a member ever.'
The wider set of documents released by the committee included a 2018 email exchange between Epstein and former Obama White House lawyer Kathryn Ruemmler.
Epstein wrote to Ruemmler in December 2018: 'You might want to tell your dem friends that treating trump like a mafia don, ignores the fact that he has great dangerous power. Tightening the noose too slowly, risks a very bad situation. Gambino was never the commander in chief there was little Gambino could do as the walls closed in. Not so with this maniac.'
Ruemmler had sent Epstein a link to a New York Times op-ed about Michael Cohen, Trump's former lawyer, who had recently pleaded guilty to violating campaign finance laws related to hush money paid to adult star Stormy Daniels.
In response, the financier wrote: 'You see, I know how dirty donald is. My guess is that non lawyers ny biz people have no idea. What it means to have your fixer flip.'
The White House has gone into fightback mode, accusing Democrats of selectively leaking the messages to 'create a fake narrative to smear President Trump.'
Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said that Virginia Giuffre, who herself died by suicide in April, had declared that Trump ''couldn't have been friendlier' to her in their limited interactions.'
The Epstein scandal has dogged Trump for months, after his Justice Department in a July memo reaffirmed he died by suicide, and that a 'client list' Attorney General Pam Bondi claimed to have been reviewing did not in fact exist.
It sparked a furious backlash from Trump's 'MAGA' support base, who felt betrayed after being told for years that a 'deep state' cover-up was protecting figures in the Democratic Party whom they accused of being Epstein's clients.
The president did not send or receive any of the emails, and he has not been charged with any crime in relation to Epstein or Maxwell.
Trump's MAGA lieutenants -- including two allies who now run the FBI -- made careers of fanning the conspiracy theories, including that Epstein's suicide was actually a murder ordered by his powerful clients.
The president's ties to Epstein are extensive. The pair were pictured partying together during a 15-year friendship before they reportedly fell out in 2004 over a property deal, and when Trump subsequently denounced his former ally.
Trump, writing on his Truth Social platform, said Democrats 'are trying to bring up the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax again because they´ll do anything at all to deflect on how badly they´ve done' on the government shutdown 'and so many other subjects.'
'There should be no deflections to Epstein or anything else, and any Republicans involved should be focused only on opening up our Country, and fixing the massive damage caused by the Democrats!' Trump wrote.
In July, Trump said he had banned Epstein from Mar-a-Lago because his one-time friend was 'taking people who worked for me,' including Giuffre. The women, he said, were 'taken out of the spa, hired by him - in other words, gone.'
'I said, `Listen, we don´t want you taking our people,´' Trump told reporters. Asked if Giuffre was one of the employees poached by Epstein, the president demurred but then said Epstein 'stole her.'
Following the release of the emails, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is finally permitting a vote next week to force Donald Trump's Department of Justice to release all of the infamous 'Epstein files.'
After a discharge petition to release the files garnered 218 signatures in the U.S. House of Representatives Wednesday, Johnson told reporters on Capitol Hill that 'we're going to put that on the floor for a full vote when we get back next week.'
The move comes after MAGA House Republicans - including Reps. Lauren Boebert, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Nancy Mace (S.C.) - went rogue against Trump and signed the petition.
A mass of Republican defectors are expected to join them and vote on the Epstein file disclosure bill. The vote will be earlier than expected, as the previous estimation for a vote on the bill could have put it as far back as December.
Top Trump officials met in the White House Situation Room amid bipartisan efforts in the House to force the vote.
The meeting included Attorney General Pam Bondi, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, FBI Director Kash Patel and Republican Colorado Representative Lauren Boebert, according to sources.
Boebert is one of the leading MAGA lawmakers in Congress pushing the Justice Department to publish their trove of Epstein files.
Leavitt appeared to confirm the meeting took place during a Wednesday briefing.
The scheduled vote comes as Arizona Democrat Adelita Grijalva was sworn in to the U.S. House of Representatives by Republican Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday afternoon, seven weeks after being elected to replace the seat previously held by her now deceased father.
Her swearing-in, which occurred 50 days after her election, faced delays due to the House of Representatives being out of session during the government shutdown that has been ongoing for the past 43 days.
However, if you ask some House Democrats, including Grijalva, the real reason for the delay was much more nefarious.
Grijalva became the final signature on a petition to release government files related to Jeffrey Epstein as a few of his victims looked on from the House gallery, delivering on a key campaign promise minutes after she was sworn in as a member of Congress.
In a Tuesday interview with MSNBC's The Weeknight, Grivalva noted that 'nobody, no member-elect should ever be in the situation again where 813,000 people are silenced because one person wants to play politics with their swearing-in.'
Grijalva also told MSNBC that she believed her swearing-in was delayed 'to give Speaker Johnson more time in order to try to convince one of those four Republicans to take their name off' the discharge petition to release the Epstein files.
The petition, put forth by California Democrat Ro Khanna and Kentucky Republican Thomas Massie, is currently backed by every Democrat in the House, as well as three female Republicans, Marjorie Taylor-Greene of Georgia, Nancy Mace of South Carolina, and Lauren Boebert of Colorado.
