Dems: Newly Released Epstein Emails Show Trump Knew About Abuse

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Trump has said he had a falling out with Epstein and kicked him out of his club over allegations Epstein poached young women workers from the club's spa.

Emails raise more questions, leading Dem says

House Oversight Committee Ranking Member Robert Garcia said in a statement Wednesday the emails“raise glaring questions about what else the White House is hiding and the nature of the relationship between Epstein and the President.”

“The Department of Justice must fully release the Epstein files to the public immediately. The Oversight Committee will continue pushing for answers and will not stop until we get justice for the victims,” Garcia continued.

Within hours of the committee Democrats' release of the emails, committee Republican leaders issued a brief press release linking to“an additional 20,000 pages of documents received from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein” contained on Google Drive and Dropbox clouds.

During Wednesday's press briefing, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said,“These emails prove absolutely nothing other than the fact that President Trump did nothing wrong.”

Leavitt added that Trump and Epstein both lived in Palm Beach, Florida.

“Jeffrey Epstein was a member at Mar a Lago until President Trump kicked him out because Jeffrey Epstein was a pedophile and he was a creep,” she said.

Congress investigates after FBI backtracks

The bipartisan committee investigation began shortly after the FBI released a July memo stating the Department of Justice would not be releasing any further information on the government's sex trafficking investigation into Epstein.

Epstein was found dead, apparently by suicide, in August 2019 in a Manhattan jail cell where he was awaiting federal trial.

The FBI's announcement that the agency would not release further details caused a firestorm of demands to release all investigative material, even among Trump's supporters in Congress and far-right media influencers including Megyn Kelly and the late Charlie Kirk.

Trump campaigned on releasing what are often referred to as the“Epstein files.”

A bipartisan effort in the House of Representatives aiming to force a vote on the release of the files has succeeded now that House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., has sworn in Arizona Democrat Adelita Grijalva. Johnson says the vote will be held next week.