Trump has maintained that he was unaware of Epstein's sex trafficking. (Photo: NBC News) The White House has reacted to the release of Jeffrey Epstein’s emails, suggesting that Donald Trump knew about the disgraced financier’s abuse of girls.
“The Democrats selectively leaked emails to the liberal media to create a fake narrative to smear President Trump,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Wednesday.

“These stories are nothing more than bad-faith efforts to distract from President Trump’s historic accomplishments, and any American with common sense sees right through this hoax and clear distraction from the government opening back up again,” Leavitt added.
According to her, the emails “prove absolutely absolutely nothing other than the fact that President Trump did nothing wrong.”
She said Trump knew Epstein from Palm Beach but that the president kicked the financier out of his Mar-a-Lago club “because Jeffrey Epstein was a pedophile and he was a creep.”
Leavitt also said that the redacted victim in the emails was the late Virginia Giuffre, “who repeatedly said President Trump was not involved in any wrongdoing whatsoever.”
Earlier, Democrats on the House Oversight committee released three email chains, sent between 2011 and 2019, raising more uncomfortable questions for Trump about his relationship with Epstein.
In a 2011 email to his associate, Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein wrote that Trump had “spent hours” at Epstein’s house with a victim of sex trafficking. In another email sent years later, Epstein told author Michael Wolff that Trump “knew about the girls as he asked Ghislaine to stop.”
This contradicts Trump’s long-held position that he was unaware of Epstein’s sex trafficking.

The emails were part of a batch of 23,000 documents provided by Epstein’s estate to the Oversight Committee.
The release of the emails came on the day a new Democratic member is scheduled to be sworn into the House, a move expected to be a tipping point in a campaign to force a vote on releasing all non-classified files related to Epstein.
The top Democrat on the Oversight Committee, Representative Robert Garcia, called on the Justice Department to fully release the Epstein files to the public.
“The more Donald Trump tries to cover up the Epstein files, the more we uncover. These latest emails and correspondence raise glaring questions about what else the White House is hiding and the nature of the relationship between Epstein and the President,” he said in a statement.