House Democrats unveil Epstein emails reportedly calling Trump the 'dog that hasn’t barked'
WASHINGTON, DC: Jeffrey Epstein allegedly referred to Donald Trump as “the dog that hasn’t barked” and told his former confidante Ghislaine Maxwell that one of his alleged victims had “spent hours at my house with him.”
This was according to the emails released on Wednesday, November 12, by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee.
“I want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is Trump,” Epstein wrote to Maxwell in an April 2011 message riddled with typos.
This was followed by the redacted names and identifying details of victims. The exchange came shortly after a British tabloid published stories linking Epstein, Maxwell, and their circle of powerful acquaintances.
Jeffrey Epstein and Michael Wolff discuss Trump’s public response
The emails were allegedly among the more than 23,000 documents obtained from the Epstein Estate through a congressional subpoena.
Two other email threads involve Epstein’s correspondence with author Michael Wolff, who has written extensively on the Trump presidency.
In December 2015, months after Trump launched his White House bid, Wolff warned Epstein that CNN was reportedly planning to question Trump about their relationship.
“If we were to craft an answer for him, what do you think it should be?” Epstein asked.
“I think you should let him hang himself,” Wolff responded, suggesting that Epstein could benefit politically or publicly depending on Trump’s reply.
A later message from January 2019, when Trump was already president, appears to reference Epstein’s alleged ban from Mar-a-Lago.
“Trump said he asked me to resign, never a member ever,” Epstein wrote. “Of course, he knew about the girls as he asked Ghislaine to stop.”
Wolff told reporters on Wednesday that he could not recall the precise context of the emails but confirmed that Epstein had been a source in his reporting about Trump.
Democrats push for Epstein file disclosure
The release of the emails comes as Democrats intensify their efforts to make the Department of Justice’s Epstein files public.
Rep Robert Garcia, the Oversight Committee’s ranking Democrat, said the correspondence “raises glaring questions” about the extent of Epstein’s relationship with Trump.
“The more Donald Trump tries to cover up the Epstein files, the more we uncover,” Garcia said. “The Department of Justice must fully release the Epstein files to the public immediately.”
House Speaker Mike Johnson is expected to swear in Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva of Arizona, whose signature will reportedly allow Democrats to advance a petition forcing a House vote on compelling the DOJ to release the full investigative record.
The vote could come as early as the first week of December.
Republicans accuse Democrats of ‘cherry-picking’
Republicans on the committee accused Democrats of releasing selective excerpts to “generate click-bait” while withholding other materials that name Democratic figures.
“Democrats continue to carelessly cherry-pick documents to generate click-bait that is not grounded in the facts,” an Oversight Committee majority spokesperson said. “The committee will release the full documents once all victim-identifying information has been properly redacted.”
Trump has repeatedly denied wrongdoing and, in July, lashed out at Democrats, calling the revived scrutiny over Epstein “a scam and a hoax.”
“Their new SCAM is what we will forever call the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax,” he wrote on social media.
In a statement, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt also accused Democrats of using “selectively leaked emails to the liberal media to create a fake narrative to smear President Trump.”
She added, “These stories are nothing more than bad-faith efforts to distract from President Trump’s historic accomplishments, and any American with common sense sees right through this hoax and clear distraction from the government opening back up again.”
