In all of the years of scrutiny over the friendship between Donald Trump and the late convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, the big questions have centered on how much Trump knew about Epstein’s illegal activities, as well as whether Trump committed any wrongdoing himself.
No true smoking gun has yet emerged, showing Trump knew of or had complicity in the crimes. But a New York Times report on Wednesday unearthed some Epstein emails that look pretty bad for the president.
The emails were obtained by Democrats in Congress, mostly on the House Oversight Committee.
The actual emails are more startling than the NY Times gloss. https://t.co/4kxg3qRXcg
— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) November 12, 2025
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There are three emails released by the committee, one of which was sent to Epstein’s convicted coconspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell, and the other two were to journalist and Trump biographer Michael Wolff.
A new email exchange from 2015, released by House Dems, shows journalist and author Michael Wolff advising Jeffrey Epstein about Trump and the press. https://t.co/aJo3VyKeJr pic.twitter.com/jwqdOaTYSt
— Scott Nover (@ScottNover) November 12, 2025
“I want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is Trump,” Epstein said to Maxwell in one of the emails, also writing that a woman who later accused him of crimes “spent hours at my house with him, he has never once been mentioned.” That email is from 2011, about four years before Trump started running for president.
This is both a hugely significant development and not at all the way this should be done.
The public needs access to the whole file. Every document. Nobody shielded.
Not this partisan dribble, parties pulling out papers here and there for politics. https://t.co/nBRMxoGE6O pic.twitter.com/MqzS3OTkiR
— Megan K. Stack (@Megankstack) November 12, 2025
“House Democrats on Wednesday released emails in which Jeffrey Epstein wrote that President Trump had ‘spent hours at my house’ with one of Mr. Epstein’s victims, among other messages that suggested that the convicted sex offender believed Mr. Trump knew more about his abuse than he has acknowledged,” the Times reported.
Epstein says in another email that Trump “knew about the girls.”
