Jeffrey Epstein’s brother has said he would “not be surprised” if there were more emails sent by the disgraced financier about Donald Trump.
The president was mentioned in emails between the late pedophile, his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, and the author Michael Wolff, released by Democrats on the House oversight committee on Wednesday. The three exchanges took place between 2011 to 2019.
In one of the emails, written to journalist Wolff in 2019, Epstein alleged that Trump “knew about the girls” procured by the convicted sex offender. Epstein also offered a then New York Times reporter private photos “of donald [sic] and girls in bikinis in my kitchen” in a separate email in 2015. It is not clear whether he really possessed such images or ever passed them on.
The White House has accused opponents of selectively leaking material to smear the president.
In an exchange of text messages with Newsweek, Mark Epstein said he would “not be surprised” if there were more damaging emails sent by his brother regarding Trump — but could not confirm nor deny their existence.
He added that he had “no opinion” on the comments made by Wolff in the email.
More than 20,000 emails were released by lawmakers on Wednesday, initially from House Democrats, before Republicans on the House oversight committee shared a full cache of Epstein’s correspondence with friends and associates.
In one email to Wolff dated January 31, 2019, Epstein wrote: “Trump said he asked me to resign, never a member ever ... of course he knew about the girls as he asked ghislaine [sic] to stop.”
He also allegedly told Maxwell that Trump “spent hours” at his house with one of his victims.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said at a briefing on Wednesday that the broader set of emails “prove absolutely nothing other than President Trump did nothing wrong.”
The release of the emails has piled pressure on the Trump administration to release all of the justice department files on Epstein.
A petition forcing a vote on the release of more files gathered enough signatures to move forward on Wednesday. The House is expected to vote next week on a measure that would mandate the full release of the files, forcing the president into a challenging political position.
News of the vote came just as the president was signing a bill to end the 43-day government shutdown after it passed the House of Representatives.
Earlier this year, Mark Epstein said he believed his brother had information on influential individuals that “could put them in prison.”
He told the BBC’s Newsnight programme that “Jeffrey told [him] he had dirt on people.”
Asked if he knew who his brother was referring to, Mark said: “In the 2016 election ... Jeffrey told me that if he said what he knew about the candidates they’d have to cancel the election.”
Mark Epstein has previously rubbished the Trump administration’s verdict that his brother took his own life in a New York City jail cell.
The president took to social media on Wednesday to address this latest development, accusing Democrats of “using the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax to try and deflect from their massive failures.”
The White House has been contacted for comment.
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