The release of more emails from Jeffrey Epstein by House Democrats is a moment of maximum danger for Donald Trump.
Emails between Epstein and his closest conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell, released today, discuss the US President. Perhaps the most damning dates from 2011, long before Trump took the presidency or was even a candidate – so could not have been politically motivated. In it, Epstein wrote to Maxwell, referring to a victim whose name is redacted: “i want you to realize that the dog that hasn’t barked is trump… [VICTIM] spent hours at my house with him, he has never once been mentioned”.
Epstein, speaking three years after his first conviction for offences relating to sex trafficking, is claiming Trump “spent hours” with one of Epstein’s victims. In another, later email to journalist Michael Wolff, Epstein discusses whether Trump would lie about visits to his house or other knowledge. His press secretary Karoline Leavitt accused Democrats of having “selectively leaked” emails in an attempt “to create a fake narrative to smear President Trump”.
In a third email from January 2019, Epstein writes that “of course he knew about the girls as he asked ghislaine to stop”. This ambiguous phrase might be seized upon by Trump supporters as being good for the US President – but the reality is more complex.
Trump has publicly claimed that he asked Maxwell to stop poaching his staff for Epstein, which this might reference. But more commonly, he has claimed to have had no knowledge of Epstein’s criminal affairs, despite Epstein referring to Trump as his “best friend” for a decade or more, and the two men having partied together with models from Miss Universe.
All of this very obviously reignites a story Trump has tried desperately to kill ever since re-entering the White House.
Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI director Kash Patel both inflamed conspiracy narratives around Epstein before they entered government – promising to release the “Epstein files”, and suggesting they would implicate numerous senior Democrats.
Now Trump is in power, and now Bondi and others have seen the documents concerned, the story has shifted. They have said there is no need to release documents, that they are a hoax, a Democrat hit job, or an attempt to smear Trump. The White House press secretary said this evening that these were “bad faith efforts to distract from President Trump’s historic accomplishments”. They have repeatedly tried to move the story on, often provoking a backlash from some of Trump’s otherwise devoted supporters.
For more than a month, Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson has refused to swear in a newly-elected Democratic Congresswoman, Adelita Grijalva. Democrats had claimed this unprecedented delay was because she had promised to help release the Epstein files, and would be a crucial 218th signature on a petition towards their release. Until now, Republicans had tried to dismiss this as conspiracy-mongering.
The trouble for Trump – and those trying to defend him – is that the more we see, the worse it looks. None of these three emails are the final word on the story. They don’t definitively prove anything in any direction. But they do provoke an awful lot of questions – not only about what Trump knew, and when, but also about what he did, and when, and with whom.
The First Lady, Melania Trump, has issued lawsuits over allegations around her involvement with Epstein. The President has tried everything to distract from the story and move it on, and under his administration Maxwell has been moved into a comfortable minimum-security prison.
Trump’s staff and his allies in Congress have shifted from promising to release the Epstein files to seemingly doing everything in their power to keep them secret.
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This is surely as close to a moment of maximum danger for Trump as this usually untouchable President ever gets. His fans care about the Epstein story, however much they are ordered to do otherwise. Unlike his financial affairs, it is a simple story to follow, and the horrifying abuse at the centre of it is hard to ignore.
Trump supporters have been determined that the Epstein files should be released, and have reacted angrily when Trump officials have gone back on their word to do this. The fact that Trump himself is named yet again in these latest files poses a challenge – is their loyalty to this scandal they have followed for so long, or to the President they voted for, who may be implicated in it?
Once again, Trump’s attempts to end the story have failed. Once again, new documents raise disturbing possibilities, and questions in urgent need of answers. Once again, Trump and his team need to find a way to respond.
When you pull on the thread of a conspiracy theory, eventually it falls apart, because it’s not true. That’s not what’s happening here. Democrats keep pulling the thread of the Epstein story, and more documents emerge, raising ever more questions. What else is out there to find?
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