‘Fake narrative to smear Trump’: White House on ‘selective leak’ of Epstein emails | World News
Trump has maintained that he was unaware of Epstein’s sex trafficking. (Photo: NBC News)
The White House has reacted to the release of Jeffrey Epstein’s emails, suggesting that Donald Trump knew about the disgraced financier’s abuse of girls.
“The Democrats selectively leaked emails to the liberal media to create a fake narrative to smear President Trump,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Wednesday.
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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks at a press briefing. (Photo: AP)
bad-faith efforts: White House
“These stories are nothing more than bad-faith efforts to dract from President Trump’s horic accomplishments, and any American with common sense sees right through this hoax and clear draction from the government opening back up again,” Leavitt added.
She also said that the redacted victim in the emails was the late Virginia Giuffre, “who repeatedly said President Trump was not involved in any wrongdoing whatsoever.”
Epstein emails released Democrats
Earlier, Democrats on the House Oversight committee released three email chains, sent between 2011 and 2019, raising more uncomfortable questions for Trump about his relationship with Epstein.
In a 2011 email to his associate, Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein wrote that Trump had “spent hours” at Epstein’s house with a victim of sex trafficking. In another email sent years later, Epstein told author Michael Wolff that Trump “knew about the girls as he asked Ghislaine to stop.”
This contradicts Trump’s long-held position that he was unaware of Epstein’s sex trafficking.
An art installation representing President Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein holding hands stands on the National Mall near the Capitol, in Washington (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)
will all Epstein files be released to public?
The emails were part of a batch of 23,000 documents provided Epstein’s estate to the Oversight Committee.
The release of the emails came on the day a new Democratic member is scheduled to be sworn into the House, a move expected to be a tipping point in a campaign to force a vote on releasing all non-classified files related to Epstein.
The top Democrat on the Oversight Committee, Representative Robert Garcia, called on the Justice Department to fully release the Epstein files to the public.
“The more Donald Trump tries to cover up the Epstein files, the more we uncover. These latest emails and correspondence raise glaring questions about what else the White House is hiding and the nature of the relationship between Epstein and the President,” he said in a statement.
