Trump Reverses Position On Release of Epstein Files, Calls On GOP To Act

In the emails, Epstein — who died on Aug. 10, 2019, in a Manhattan jail cell while awaiting trial on federal sex-trafficking charges — claimed that former President Trump was aware of his alleged grooming and sexual abuse of underage girls. The documents do not independently corroborate Epstein’s assertions, The Post noted.

“[O]f course he knew about the girls as he asked [G]hislaine to stop,” Epstein wrote to author Michael Wolff in a Jan. 31, 2019, email, referring to Ghislaine Maxwell’s recruitment of victims from the spa at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort. Wolff’s credibility has been widely questioned.

The next day, Epstein wrote in an email to himself that although “Trump knew of it, and came to my house many times during that period,” the future president “never got a massage.”

Trump and Epstein were known to be socially acquainted during the 1990s and early 2000s before reportedly falling out during a bidding dispute over a now-demolished mansion in Palm Beach, Fla.

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