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Coverage of the Epstein-Trump emails revealed a familiar divide

Poynter · Tom Jones · last updated

For months, even years, there have been questions about President Donald Trump’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted and now dead sex offender.

On Wednesday, through a series of emails made public, we saw the most concrete evidence yet of the ties between Epstein and Trump.

A 2011 email from Epstein to Ghislaine Maxwell, his partner who was later convicted of sex trafficking, claimed that Trump had “spent hours at my house” with one of Epstein’s victims, and that it “has never once been mentioned” by police. Epstein called Trump a “dog that hasn’t barked.”

In a 2019 email to author Michael Wolff, Epstein wrote Trump “knew about the girls as he asked ghislaine to stop.”

The emails were among three released by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee.

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