by Stefano Vaccara
ROMA (ITALPRESS) – New emails made public today by the Democrats of the Commission for the Supervision of the House relaunch the case Jeffrey Epstein and his alleged ties with Donald Trump. According to the New York Times, in some messages from 2011 and 2019, the financier convicted of sexual trafficking of minors, who died in prison in 2019, would have written that the then businessman “had spent hours in my house with one of the victims” and that “know of the girls”. Trump has always denied any involvement or knowledge of Epstein’s criminal activities, calling it “a repugnant man” and claiming that he interrupted any relationship with him in the early 2000s. However, Congressional Democrats say that emails raise “new questions about the nature of their relationship” and the White House’s attitude to managing the so-called “Epstein files”, promised but never entirely disclosed. The three communications made public today date back to after Epstein’s plea in Florida in 2008, when he avoided federal charges in exchange for short detention and recording as a sexual harassment.
In a message to Ghislaine Maxwell, her former collaborator today in prison, Epstein wrote: “I want you to understand that the dog that did not bark is Trump. One of the girls spent hours at home with him, but it was never mentioned.” In another 2019 email addressed to author Michael Wolff, Epstein added: “I think he knew about the girls, he asked Ghislaine to stop.” According to the Times, the parliamentary committee obtained thousands of pages of documents from the inheritance of Epstein, of which only one part was made public. The names of the alleged victims were obscured. Democrats argue that the White House has hindered the full publication of files and intend to bring the matter to court in the coming days. The former president has stamped the accusations as “a new frame”, reasserting that he has “never committed anything wrong”. Trump and Epstein attended New York and Palm Beach in the nineties, but their relationship would be interrupted in 2004. Emails, if confirmed in their authenticity, promise to rekindle the political and judicial debate around one of the most controversial chapters of American public life.
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