Top Trump officials reportedly met to discuss the House of Representatives' effort to release the Epstein files as the topic returns to the spotlight after Democrats published a new tranche.
CNN claimed the meeting would include Attorney General Pam Bondi, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, FBI Director Kash Patel and Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado, who has advocated for the releasing of the files.
Boebert has been among the Republicans who signed onto an effort to force a vote on the release of the files on the floor. The others are Marjorie Taylor Greene and Nancy Mace, while the initiative is being spearheaded by Thomas Massie. Should all continue supporting the release, their effort could prove fruitful after the swearing in of Democratic Rep. Adelita Grijalva on Wednesday.
The latest documents released by Democrats feature three emails from a tranche of more than 23,000 documents subpoenaed from the Epstein Estate.
They include a 2011 message in which Epstein told his longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell that a victim had "spent hours at my house" with Trump, describing him as "the dog that hasn't barked." Maxwell responded: "I have been thinking about that ..." The names of alleged victims were redacted.
In a separate exchange from December 2015, author Michael Wolff told Epstein he heard CNN might question Trump about his relationship with him. Epstein replied: "If we were to craft an answer for him, what do you think it should be?" Wolff said Trump should answer publicly and risk "hanging himself," noting it could create "PR and political currency" for Epstein.
Another email from January 2019 shows Epstein appeared to dispute reports that Trump had barred him from Mar-a-Lago, writing: "Trump said he asked me to resign, never a member ever. Of course he knew about the girls as he asked ghislaine to stop." The full context of the exchange is unclear.
None of the newly released documents contain allegations of criminal conduct by Trump.
The White House slammed Democrats, calling the effort a "tired CON JOB to smear the President."
"Democrats redacted the victim's name because the victim said Trump 'couldn't have been friendlier,' was a 'gentleman,' and that she didn't witness any wrongdoing," The White House said in a publication on X.
Originally published on Latin Times
