The White House on Wednesday denounced Democrats for what it called a “selective and bad-faith” release of Jeffrey Epstein documents after emails surfaced showing celebrity biographer Michael Wolff privately advised Epstein to attack Donald Trump during the 2016 campaign to gain “political cover.”

Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said the newly released materials were “a deliberate distraction from the Democrats’ shutdown fiasco” and accused the minority of “manufacturing a smear against President Trump.”

Leavitt said the “unnamed victim” referenced in Epstein’s 2011 correspondence was the late Virginia Giuffre, who had repeatedly stated Trump “was not involved in any wrongdoing whatsoever and couldn’t have been friendlier” in their limited interactions. She added that Trump banned Epstein from Mar-a-Lago decades ago for harassing female employees and called the document release “a desperate effort to rewrite history.”

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