House Democrats just put out a bunch of emails from Jeffrey Epstein this week, and they’re making people look at his friendship with President Donald Trump all over again. The emails are part of over 20,000 documents that came from the Epstein Estate, and they show the convicted sex offender saying some pretty serious things about Trump and talking about when they used to hang out. The House Oversight Committee is going through all the documents right now.
The emails show Epstein talking about Trump several times when he was messaging people like Ghislaine Maxwell and writer Michael Wolff, as per USA Today. In one really bad email from April 2011, Epstein told Maxwell that Trump “spent hours at my house” with one of Epstein’s victims and said the president “knew about the girls.” Maxwell wrote back saying “I have been thinking about that.”
In another email from February 2017, right after Trump became president for the first time, Epstein really went off on his old friend. Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers told him Trump hadn’t “wrecked world and avoided scandal,” but Epstein wasn’t having it. He said he had “met some very bad people” but “none as bad as trump” and that Trump didn’t have “not one decent cell in his body.” He also called Trump “dangerous” in the same message.
Epstein had a lot to say about his old friend
These email dumps have Congress arguing about what Trump actually knew when it came to Epstein’s illegal activities. Rep. Greg Landsman told CNN that “these two were very close, so the question is what did Trump know and when did he know it?” The White House fired back at the release, saying it was just a “smear,” and Trump went on social media saying Democrats are trying to “deflect” from other stuff.
Some other emails show just how close they used to be. Epstein wrote in 2015 about a bet he lost to Trump about whether Marla Maples was pregnant, and he said “I lost and sent him 10,000 dollars of baby food.” In another email from Thanksgiving 2017, Epstein listed Trump as one of the people who would be with him for the holiday.
The really weird part is that Epstein seemed to be helping Russian officials figure out how to deal with Trump. In an email from June 2018, right before Trump met with Putin in Helsinki, Epstein told a European official that a Russian diplomat who had died “understood trump after our conversations” and said Russia’s foreign minister could “get insight on talking to me.”
Trump is now telling Republicans not to vote for a bill that would make the government release all its records on Epstein, calling it a “trap.” But the people trying to force the vote got what they needed when Arizona Democrat Adelita Grijalva got sworn in and signed the petition right away. House Speaker Mike Johnson said the House will vote on it next week, which means we might finally learn more about what Trump and Epstein’s friendship was really like.
Published: Nov 14, 2025 08:15 am