The New Yorker:

Jessica Winter
A staff writer covering politics, family, and education.

Democrats on the House Oversight Committee today released previously unseen documents that appeared to reinforce President Donald Trump’s connections to the convicted child-sex offenders Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. In an e-mail from 2011, Epstein writes to Maxwell, “i want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is trump.” Epstein invokes the name of a trafficking victim, which the House committee redacted, and says that she “spent hours at my house with” Trump. “I have been thinking about that,” Maxwell replies. In another e-mail exchange, between Epstein and the journalist Michael Wolff, in 2019, Epstein refers to Trump’s private club, Mar-a-Lago, and says, “of course he knew about the girls.” (Later that year, Epstein died in a jail cell while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges; Maxwell is currently serving a twenty-year sentence for trafficking.)

Shortly after these files were made public, Republicans on the committee released more than twenty-thousand pages of additional documents that were received from Epstein’s estate. Later, Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, revealed the redacted identity of the victim mentioned in the e-mails released by Democrats: the late Virginia Giuffre. Giuffre first met Maxwell in the summer of 2000, at Mar-a-Lago, where Giuffre was a sixteen-year-old locker-room attendant. Within hours of this encounter, as Giuffre writes in her posthumously published memoir, “Nobody’s Girl,” Epstein and Maxwell raped her. Then, for more than two years, they trafficked her. In her book, Giuffre makes no allegations against Trump; she says that she did meet him, but it was an innocuous encounter arranged by her father, who was employed at Mar-a-Lago as a maintenance man. Giuffre also denied under oath that she’d ever seen Trump engage in inappropriate conduct.

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