Washington ¨C House Democrats on Wednesday released emails that they said raised new questions about U.S. President Donald Trump¡¯s ties to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein and how much he knew about Epstein¡¯s abuse of underage girls, while the swearing-in of a new Democrat kicked off a fresh fight in Congress over further disclosures.
The Democrats released messages between Epstein and author Michael Wolff and Ghislaine Maxwell, a British socialite who is serving a 20-year prison sentence on charges related to her role in facilitating Epstein¡¯s sex trafficking. In one 2019 email to Wolff, Epstein, a convicted sex offender, wrote that Trump ¡°knew about the girls,¡± though it was not clear what that phrase meant.
Trump has vehemently and consistently denied knowing about Epstein¡¯s sex trafficking. He has said that he and Epstein, who died by suicide in a Manhattan jail cell in 2019, were once friends before having a falling out.
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