Dems’ 'Smoking Gun' Epstein Emails on Trump Are a Total Nothingburger. Here's Why.
Democrats are once again trying to turn Jeffrey Epstein into a Trump scandal.
And once again, they failed miserably.
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee say they have released new emails from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate that “raise serious questions about Donald Trump and his knowledge of Epstein’s horrific crimes.”
Democrats presented the emails they released from Jeffrey Epstein's archives as if they revealed some damning connection between Epstein and Donald Trump. In reality, they’re complete nothings — vague, gossipy, and meaningless.
In one 2011 exchange, Epstein told Ghislaine Maxwell that Trump was “the dog that hasn’t barked,” noting that an alleged victim had “spent hours” at his house with Trump but that Trump’s name had “never once been mentioned.”
Maxwell merely replied, “I have been thinking about that.” There’s no accusation, no evidence of wrongdoing, and nothing even remotely incriminating—just speculation that Trump hadn’t been dragged into Epstein’s scandal, which actually reinforces what’s long been known: Trump cut ties with Epstein years earlier and even banned him from Mar-a-Lago.
The victim referenced in the emails—whose name was redacted—is Virginia Giuffre. She previously worked at Mar-a-Lago and has consistently stated that she never witnessed President Trump engage in any wrongdoing. Despite the media frenzy and relentless political attacks, Giuffre has made it clear, both in public statements and in her memoir, that Trump had no involvement in Epstein’s illegal activities.
The other set of emails, from 2015, show Epstein chatting with anti-Trump author Michael Wolff—who was probing for gossip during Trump’s first presidential run. Epstein’s replies show no coordination or cooperation, just idle banter. Wolff, not Epstein, was the one suggesting ways to “hang” Trump politically depending on how he answered media questions about Epstein.
The mainstream media are treating the third email released by the Democrats as if it were some kind of smoking gun.
“Jeffrey Epstein wrote Trump ‘knew about the girls’, referencing Mar-a-Lago, in newly released emails,” reads the headline from NBC News.
The email in question is between Jeffrey Epstein and Wolff, dated January 2019. The correspondence appears to discuss whether Trump had indeed banned Epstein from Mar-a-Lago years before.
“Trump said he asked me to resign, never a member ever,” Epstein wrote, “Of course he knew about the girls as he asked ghislaine to stop.”
Naturally, left-wing keyboard activists have echoed the claim that the line saying Trump “knew about the girls” is the smoking gun that Trump knew about the abuse happening at Epstein’s Island. It does no such thing. In fact, the very same article from NBC News admits this is a nothingburger:
The email was apparently referencing Trump and Epstein’s soured relationship. The two were friends for years, but the White House said earlier this year that Trump booted Epstein “out of his club for being a creep.”
“He took people that worked for me. And I told him, ‘Don’t do it anymore.’ And he did it,” Trump told reporters in July, adding, “I said, ‘Stay the hell out of here.’”
The emails contain multiple references to a victim, whose name is redacted in the release. But the White House and Republicans on the committee said that the redacted name was Virginia Giuffre, a prominent Epstein survivor who died in April. Trump has said that Giuffre worked for him at Mar-a-Lago before Epstein “stole her.” She had never accused Trump of wrongdoing. NBC News reached out to her family for comment.
ABC News also admits that “The full context of these email exchanges is not clear from the portions released by the committee Democrats.” On top of that, if these emails were so damning, why didn’t Wolff release the emails he was involved in before? When you consider the fact that there must be a lot of emails referencing Trump, but only three released, you can bet these emails—which don’t implicate Trump in any way—were cherry-picked for a reason: their ability to be misinterpreted by those desperate to accuse Trump of something that could end his presidency.
Make no mistake: Michael Wolff was desperate to take down Trump, hoping that tying him to Epstein would do the job. How do we know? Oversight Democrats released another batch of emails Wednesday, including one from Wolff to Epstein, clearly trying to coax dirt on Trump to derail his 2016 campaign.
“There’s an opportunity to come forward this week and talk about Trump in such a way that could garner you great sympathy and help finish him,” Wolff wrote just days before the election. “Interested?”
Of course, Epstein had nothing on Trump—hence the reason Epstein never came forward with anything. Curiously, no replies to that email were released by the Democrats.
And then there’s the fact that the Deep State offered Epstein a Get Out Jail Free card if he implicated Trump. Last week we learned that court documents revealed that Epstein allegedly told fellow inmate Nicholas Tartaglione that federal prosecutors—led by Maurene Comey, daughter of disgraced former FBI Director James Comey—offered him a deal: freedom, in exchange for implicating Trump in his crimes. According to Tartaglione, Epstein said Trump had no connection to his crimes, but the prosecutors told him evidence didn’t matter—just the accusation. If there was a smoking gun, it would have gotten out years ago. If Michael Wolff had something legitimately incriminating, he would have released it long ago.
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee have spent months sifting through a massive cache of documents handed over by Jeffrey Epstein’s estate, searching for any connection between Epstein’s trafficking operation and Donald Trump. After all that effort, they still came up empty.
Note: This article has been updated with new information.