A “Dog that hasn’t barked”
Washington, Nov 12 (EFE).-
Congress published new documents linked to the Jeffrey Epstein case on Wednesday, revealing emails in which Epstein said that Trump is a “dog that hasn’t barked,” insinuating that he was aware of the abuses. According to the emails Trump had spent “hours” with a victim.
According to Republican congresspeople and the White House, the victim is Virginia Giuffre, the woman who claimed to have been sexually abused by Prince Andrew, brother of King Charles III of England.
The three emails, dated 2011, 2015, and 2019, are among the 20,000+ files from Epstein’s estate that the House Oversight Committee obtained as part of its investigation into the deceased magnate, accused of sex trafficking, and his accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell.
In September, the Committee published over 200 pages of an album containing birthday greetings for the New York financier, including an alleged lewd drawing by Trump that would prove their connection. Trump denied being the author of the drawing and has downplayed his relationship with Epstein, claiming he distanced himself from him long before his crimes became public knowledge.
What do the messages contain?
One email from 2011 shows an exchange between Maxwell, who is currently serving a 20-year sentence for child sex trafficking, and Epstein.
“I want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is Trump,” Epstein wrote to Maxwell in 2011. Adding that one of the victims, whose name is redacted (Giuffre, supposedly), “spent hours at my house with him (referring to Trump), he has never once been mentioned.”
Two other emails published on Wednesday are from private exchanges between Epstein and Michael Wolff, a journalist and author of several books about Trump, who spent hours interviewing the financier at his Manhattan home.
In an email from 2015, they discussed an upcoming Trump interview on CNN. In the email, Wolff advised letting the president incriminate himself by denying any relationship with the New York financier.
“You can hang him in a way that potentially generates a positive benefit for you, or, if it really looks like he could win, you could save him, generating a debt,” Wolff wrote.
In a third email, sent in 2019, Epstein mentioned that Trump asked him to resign his membership at the spa linked to his residence in Mar-a-Lago. However, Epstein insisted that he was never a member.
“Of course he knew about the girls as he asked Ghislaine to stop,” Epstein told the journalist, referring to Maxwell’s recruitment of minors for sex trafficking at Mar-a-Lago.
The president has not yet commented on these emails. However, White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt sent a statement to the media on Wednesday, claiming that Democrats selectively leaked emails to the liberal media to create a “fake narrative” and defame Trump.
She also echoed the statements of Republican members of the Oversight Committee who identified on Wednesday the anonymous victim in the emails as Virginia Giuffre, implying that the presidential office considers her to be Giuffre.
The revelation of the new evidence came hours before the first House of Representatives session in about seven weeks.
For months, Democratic lawmakers and several Republicans have been pressuring for a vote on the publication of files related to Epstein, a procedure that Republican leadership has managed to delay thus far. EFE
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