The House Oversight Committee have released new emails from Jeffrey Epstein's estate and connected to the President of the United States.
The emails appear to show exchanges between Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, and also a note from Epstein to author Michael Wolf in 2019. Wolf has written several books about President Donald Trump.
In one email Epstein wrote to Maxwell, "I want to realize that that dog that hasn't barked is Trump."
Among the documents is a 2011 message from Epstein to Maxwell that said Mr. Trump "spent hours at my house" with one of Epstein's victims. That name of that alleged victim is redacted.
There was another email exchange involving Jeffrey Epstein seeming to acknowledge that Trump may have been aware some of the women who were potentially involved in this alleged sex trafficking ring.
There was also some discussion about an upcoming interview where Trump was supposed to be asked about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, and those emails revealing what they "think the president should say."
President Trump has acknowledged that he knew Jeffrey Epstein, so that acknowledgement comes as no surprise in the latest emails. However, it is the contents of these emails that is new and more revelatory.
House Democrats said the emails were turned over by Epstein's estate. There are 23,000 documents that lawmakers are reviewing related to this alleged sex ring orchestrated by Epstein, who committed suicide in a New York correctional facility in 2019, and Maxwell.
It's a topic the White House has been trying to avoid in recent weeks and months, and it's something that House members will face as they return to the Capitol Wednesday for this big shutdown vote later this afternoon.
So far, there is no comment from the president or the White House. Previously, Mr. Trump has said he cut ties with Epstein many years ago, and there's been no evidence of wrongdoing by Trump.
Lawyers for Maxwell, a British socialite, have argued that she never should have been tried or convicted for her role in luring teenage girls to be sexually abused by Epstein. She is serving a 20-year prison term, though she was moved from a low-security federal prison in Florida to a minimum-security prison camp in Texas after she was interviewed in July by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche.