Jeffrey Epstein claimed Donald Trump ‘knew about the girls’ in 2019 email

Convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein claimed in a bitter email months before his death in 2019 that Donald Trump “knew about the girls” Epstein and his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell victimized.

The email, written by Epstein to author Michael Wolff on Jan. 31, 2019, and released by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee, is likely to increase pressure on the Justice Department to make public all its files in connection with the notorious case.

In the missive, Epstein responded to the president’s claim that he booted Epstein from the Mar-a-Lago club after it came to his attention that the disgraced financier was recruiting young girls to groom and abuse from the resort’s spa.

“[T]rump said he asked me to resign,” Epstein told Wolff. “[I was] never a member ever.”

“[O]f course he knew about the girls as he asked [G]hislaine to stop”.

Nearly eight years earlier, on April 2, 2011, Epstein had described Trump in an email to Maxwell as “that dog that hasn’t barked,” adding that an unnamed victim “spent hours at my house with him [and] he has never once been mentioned.”

Epstein, who was found dead in his Manhattan jail cell on Aug. 10, 2019 while awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges, and Trump, now 79, enjoyed a warm friendship in the 1990s and early 2000s, but reportedly fell out in the middle of the latter decade amid a bidding war over a since-demolished Palm Beach, Fla. mansion.

Trump has insisted renewed interest in the Epstein case is a “hoax” driven by Democrats to harm him politically after the Justice Department and FBI concluded over the summer that the 66-year-old committed suicide and did not keep a “client list” of wealthy and powerful allies to whom he trafficked girls as young as 14 — contrary to widespread public speculation.