Trump mentioned in Jeffrey Epstein emails

Notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein Said by the president Donald Trump“I Know How Dirty Donald Is” in A Email subject 2018 About Trump’s former personal lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen After he pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations and agreed to cooperate in a federal investigation of the president.

Epstein made this remark about Trump Catherine Rumlera lawyer who served as White House counsel under the former president Barack Obama. Ruemmler currently serves as Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel at Goldman Sachs.

The email chain, which CNBC has not independently verified, is among more than 20,000 documents obtained from Epstein’s estate through a subpoena from Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which it reported on Wednesday.

On August 23, 2018, Ruemmler sent an email to Epstein that included a link to a… New York Times editorial By Bret Stevens, with the headline: “The high crimes and misdemeanors of Donald Trump: The principled case for impeachment is clear. What’s missing is courage.”

The article detailed Cohen’s guilty plea and its ramifications for Trump, who was then in his first term in the White House. Cohen had pleaded guilty to crimes related to offering and facilitating hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal prior to the 2016 presidential election.

“I thought you would find it interesting,” Rummler wrote to Epstein, who was friends with Trump for years before they fell out in the early 2000s.

“It makes no difference whether it was his money or not. The problem is that it was not disclosed. Additionally, the fact that he lied about it shows that he knew it was illegal,” she wrote in the same thread.

“You see, I know how dirty Donald is,” Epstein replied.

“I think people who are not lawyers in New York have no idea what it means to have your broker flip,” Epstein added.

In a series of text messages with an anonymous person in December 2018, the person wrote to Epstein: “It will all be over! They are actually trying to take down Trump and doing everything they can to do so…!”

“Yes, thanks,” Epstein replied. “It’s wild. Because I’m the one who can take it down.”

The thread did not reveal what the other person was referring to when they wrote that it would “explode.”

In April 2019 separately Email Epstein’s letter, which House Democrats released to author Michael Wolff, said Trump “knew about the girls,” according to a copy of it. message Allegedly between the two men.

It’s not clear what “teach girls” means.

In another newly released email, Epstein wrote to his now-convicted associate Ghislaine Maxwell In April 2011, Epstein wrote: “I want you to realize that the dog that did not bark is Trump.”

Epstein added in the same email that the person Democrats identified as his victim, whose name was redacted in the email, “spent hours at my house with” Trump.

“He was never mentioned,” Epstein added in that letter.

It is not clear what Epstein was referring to in his “The Dog That Didn’t Bark” email.

In an email exchange in December 2015, when Trump was seeking the Republican nomination for the White House, Wolff wrote to Epstein: “I hear CNN plans to ask Trump tonight about his relationship with you — either on air or in a meeting afterward.”

“If we could formulate an answer to him,” Epstein replied, “what do you think it should be?”

Wolfe replied: “I think you should let him hang himself. If he says he wasn’t on the plane or home, that gives you valuable public relations and political currency.”

“You can hang him in a way that is likely to generate a positive benefit for you, or if he really looks like he can win, you can bail him out, generating debt,” Wolf added. “Of course, it is possible, when asked, to say that Jeffrey is a great man who got a raw deal and is a victim of political correctness, which should be banned in the Trump regime.”

Trump has denied knowledge of Epstein’s sexual abuse of underage girls and women. The president has never been accused of wrongdoing in connection with Epstein.

The release came two days after Democrats on House Judiciary Committee It issued a statement saying: “The whistleblower information provided to the committee also indicates that Ghislaine Maxwell is working to submit a ‘request for commutation’ to the Trump administration.”

Serves Maxwell A The prison sentence is 20 years For crimes related to the exploitation and abuse of underage girls by Epstein.

“Democrats selectively leaked emails to liberal media outlets to create a false narrative to discredit President Trump,” White House press secretary Carolyn Leavitt said in a statement on Wednesday.

The “unnamed victim” referred to in these emails is late Virginia Giuffre“She repeatedly said that President Trump was never involved in any wrongdoing and ‘could not have been friendlier to her’ in their limited interactions,” Leavitt said.

“The fact remains that President Trump kicked Jeffrey Epstein out of his club decades ago because he was intimidating his female employees, including Giuffre,” Levitt said.

He added: “These stories are nothing more than bad faith efforts to distract from President Trump’s historic accomplishments, and any American with common sense correctly sees this as a hoax and a clear distraction from opening up government again.”

Geoffrey died by suicide in April.

CNBC requested comment from Maxwell’s attorney regarding the emails.

Epstein, 66, committed suicide in a Manhattan prison in August 2019, weeks after he was arrested on federal charges related to child sex trafficking.

Dozens of women have said that Epstein sexually abused them when they were underage girls or young women.

Democrats on the House Oversight Committee said the emails they obtained raised “serious questions” about Trump’s involvement with Epstein.

The three Trump-related emails are among thousands written by Epstein and obtained by Democrats.

“The more Donald Trump tries to cover up the Epstein files, the more we will discover,” said Rep. Robert Garcia, a California Democrat and ranking member of the House Oversight Committee. “These recent emails and correspondence raise stark questions about what the White House is hiding and the nature of the relationship between Epstein and the president.”

“The Department of Justice must release the entire Epstein files to the public immediately,” Garcia said. He added, “The Oversight Committee will continue to press for answers and will not stop until we achieve justice for the victims.”

Trump and the Justice Department have been criticized for months for reneging on promises by Trump administration officials to release criminal investigation files on Epstein.

Trump said in July that he fired Epstein from his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida and cut ties with him years ago because he “stole people who worked for me.”

Trump said Epstein stole at least one more Mar-a-Lago The worker then warned him not to do it again.

The president has repeatedly called officials’ demands to release the so-called Epstein files a “Democrat hoax.”

– CNBC’s Ashley Trujillo, Callie Keating and… Laya Neelkandan Contribute to this story.

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