LONDON - Jeffrey Epstein boasted: ‘‘I am the one able to take him down,’’ as he branded Donald Trump the ‘dog who hasn’t barked’ while claiming he spent ‘hours’ with a sex abuse victim, newly-released emails reveal.
The messages show that the paedophile financier was willing to disclose damaging information about Trump.
The emails were among 20 000 documents released on Wednesday by the House Oversight Committee, with Republicans joining Democrats to make the material public.
They span from 2011 to 2019, months before Epstein was found dead in his prison cell. In 2018, with Trump in the White House and facing constant probing from Democrats, Epstein made a shocking accusation about the man he called ‘dirty.’
‘They’re really just trying to take down Trump and doing whatever they can to do that!’ Epstein wrote.
‘Its wild, because i am the one able to take him down.’
Epstein also referred to Trump as the ‘dog who hasn’t barked’ in an April 2011 email to Ghislaine Maxwell after Virginia Giuffre had gone public with her allegations.
‘‘I want you to realise that that dog that hasn’t barked is Trump. (Victim) spent hours at my house with him, he has never once been mentioned,’ Epstein wrote, saying he was ‘75 per cent there.’’
Maxwell, who was convicted of sex trafficking after Epstein’s death, replied: ‘‘I have been thinking about that...’’
The redacted (victim) in the emails has been confirmed to be Giuffre, who committed suicide earlier this year and was recruited by Maxwell while employed as a spa attendant at the Mar-a-Lago Club in 2000 at 16 years old.
While Giuffre admitted to working at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago, she never alleged any illicit activity with the president.
It wasn’t clear what Epstein meant by saying that Trump was a dog that ‘hadn’t barked,’ but both he and Maxwell in other correspondence accused Giuffre of fabricating stories about her supposed sexual interactions with famous men.
Jeffrey Epstein was seen as a vindictive former friend, ready to unload all the dirty details on President Trump in a trove of emails released on Wednesday. He dished gossip and insults about Trump, while speculating on possible criminal charges and defiantly stating: ‘‘I am the one able to take him down.’’ (Pic: CTV News)