Ghislaine Maxwell’s statement she had never seen Donald Trump at Jeffrey Epstein’s house has come under fresh scrutiny after emails were newly released by the House Oversight Committee.
Trump has been under mounting pressure over his friendship with Epstein since July when the D.O.J. and F.B.I. released a memo stating there was no evidence of a blackmail operation by Epstein, no Epstein client list and there would be no further charges in the case. Administration officials had previously suggested they would release the Epstein files.
Now more than 20,000 pages of documents from Epstein’s estate have been released by the House Oversight Committee containing emails sent between Epstein and his ex-girlfriend Maxwell.
Newsweek has contacted Maxwell’s attorney in an email sent outside of regular working hours.
The emails appear to show that in April 2011, Epstein wrote to Maxwell: “I want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is trump.. [Victim] spent hours at my house with him.”
The White House said the victim whose name was redacted was Virginia Giuffre who “repeatedly said President Trump was not involved in any wrongdoing whatsoever.” Trump has always denied knowledge of Epstein’s federal crimes.
The messages appear to cast doubt on Maxwell’s own account in an interview with the D.O.J. conducted in July by Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general.
According to a transcript of the interview, Maxwell said: “I think they were friendly like people are in social settings. I don’t … I don’t think they were close friends or I certainly never witnessed the president in any of … I don’t recall ever seeing him in his house, for instance.”
The new email does not make clear whether Maxwell “witnessed” the president at Epstein’s house but certainly suggests she may have known Trump had been there with Giuffre for hours and did not disclose that to the D.O.J.
Responding to the email release, author and political commentator Brian Tyler Cohen wrote on X that Ghislaine Maxwell “lied about Trump never going to Epstein’s house (directly contradicted by her email correspondence with Epstein)”.
Trump responded to the new emails on Truth Social: “The Democrats are trying to bring up the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax again because they’ll do anything at all to deflect on how badly they’ve done on the Shutdown, and so many other subjects. Only a very bad, or stupid, Republican would fall into that trap.
“The Democrats cost our Country $1.5 Trillion Dollars with their recent antics of viciously closing our Country, while at the same time putting many at risk — and they should pay a fair price. There should be no deflections to Epstein or anything else, and any Republicans involved should be focused only on opening up our Country, and fixing the massive damage caused by the Democrats!””
This is a developing story and will be updated.
