The Dog That Didn’t Bark – New Epstein Emails Heavily Implicate Trump

They are inconspicuous lines, written years ago, yet they strike at the core of power. In emails obtained by us, Jeffrey Epstein writes that Donald Trump “spent hours at my house with one of the girls.” In another message, he says Trump “knew about the girls” and asked Ghislaine Maxwell “to stop.” Words that now, in the midst of Washington’s political paralysis, feel like a blow to the façade of denial. We have also obtained the official congressional letter, which appears further down in the article.

I think you should let him hang himself. If he says he’s never been on the plane or to the house, then that gives you valuable PR and political currency. You can hang him in a way that potentially generates a positive benefit for you – or, if it really looks like he could win, you can save him and create a debt. Of course, it’s also possible that, when asked, he’ll say: “Jeffrey is a great guy who’s been treated unfairly and is a victim of political correctness, which is to be outlawed in a Trump regime.”

On Tuesday, December 15, 2015, at 11:52 PM, Jeffrey E. jeevacation@gmail.com wrote

On Tuesday, December 15, 2015, at 8:00 PM, Michael Wolff wrote:
I hear CNN planning to ask Trump tonight about his relationship with you – either live on air or afterwards.

Trump, now in his second term as President of the United States, denies any connection to Epstein’s crimes. He calls the late financier a “creep,” dismissing all accusations as a “Democratic hoax.” But the new emails, selected from thousands of pages submitted to the House Oversight Committee, draw a different picture – one that goes far beyond the question of whether the two men were friends. They suggest that Epstein was convinced Trump knew more than he publicly admitted.

Original message
From: Jeffrey Epstein jeevacation@gmail.com

To: Gmax
Sent: Saturday, April 2, 2011, 2:25:45 PM
Subject:

I want you to realize that the dog that hasn’t barked is Trump. [VICTIM] spent hours at my house with him – he has never once been mentioned. Police chief etc. I’m 75% there.

In a message from April 2011, Epstein wrote to Ghislaine Maxwell, who years later was convicted for aiding sexual abuse: “I want you to realize that the dog that hasn’t barked is Trump.” Then the line that is now being quoted in Washington as if it were evidence: “A victim spent hours with him at my house, he has never once been mentioned.” Maxwell replied briefly: “I’ve been thinking about that.”

[VICTIM] – Mar-a-Lago. [redacted]. Trump said he asked me to resign – never a member, never. Of course he knew about the girls, as he asked Ghislaine to stop.

Another email is from January 2019, only a few months before Epstein’s death in federal custody. Recipient: the author Michael Wolff. “Of course he knew about the girls,” Epstein wrote, “he asked Ghislaine to stop.” At that time Trump was already President for the first time, and public debate over Epstein had flared up again. Democrats call it an “explosive find.” Robert Garcia, chairman of the Oversight Committee, stated: “These emails raise glaring questions about what the White House is hiding and how close the relationship between Epstein and the President really was.”

No statement came from the White House. Silence – perhaps in the hope that the public has grown numb to the shadows of the past. But the timing of the release is not accidental. The House of Representatives is just returning from a forced recess to vote on ending the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. Few doubt that attention will now shift back to the Epstein matter.

The emails all date from after Epstein’s infamous 2008 deal in Florida, in which federal prosecutors agreed not to pursue sex trafficking charges. They are therefore not youthful memories but messages written by a man who already knew how much he had to lose. A message from December 2015 shows that Epstein and Wolff even discussed how Trump should respond to media questions. Wolff warned him that CNN was planning to ask Trump during a Republican debate about his relationship with Epstein. Epstein replied: “If we were able to craft an answer for him, what do you think it should be?” Wolff wrote back: “I’d do nothing. If he denies ever being on your plane or at your house, you have political capital in your hand – you can hang him later or save him.”

It is a letter that reads like an indictment. Jamie Raskin, the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, has leveled heavy accusations against President Donald Trump in a six-page document. The letter, dated November 9, 2025, describes in detail how Ghislaine Maxwell, the British socialite sentenced to 20 years in prison for her role in Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking network, is being treated like a state guest in a federal prison in Texas – and how this preferential treatment may lead directly back to Trump’s Justice Department.

Raskin cites whistleblower reports claiming that Maxwell is living a life at the Federal Prison Camp Bryan that bears no resemblance to ordinary imprisonment: specially prepared meals, private visitation rooms with snacks and drinks, unrestricted computer access, dog play sessions, and personal exercise time outside regular hours. Her correspondence is handled by the warden herself, emails and documents transmitted without censorship. Anyone in the prison who complains is punished or reassigned.

Behind this luxurious treatment, Raskin writes, lies a dangerous entanglement of politics, justice, and personal interest. Whistleblower documents suggest that Maxwell is actively working on a request for pardon or commutation, prepared in coordination with Trump’s staff. Raskin alleges that Warden Tanisha Hall herself helps her print and forward the paperwork – a direct violation of prison regulations and a sign of political interference. Tanisha Hall selbst helfe ihr dabei, die Unterlagen zu drucken und weiterzuleiten – ein direkter Verstoß gegen Dienstvorschriften und ein Hinweis auf politische Einflussnahme.

At the center of the accusations stands Todd Blanche, Trump’s former personal lawyer and now Deputy Attorney General. He personally interviewed Maxwell in the summer of 2025, shortly before ordering her transfer to the privileged FPC Bryan – even though sex offenders are normally barred from that facility. After that meeting, Raskin says, Maxwell made official statements to the DOJ meant to exonerate Trump: she claimed she had never seen him in any inappropriate situation and knew nothing of his connection to underage girls. Raskin quotes from Maxwell’s own court file: she had “directly and repeatedly over many years recruited, transported, and coerced young girls into prostitution for Epstein” and showed no remorse. That she now enjoys “a status like in a Trump resort” behind bars, he writes, is an insult to her victims.

Raskin becomes particularly sharp when recalling Trump’s own words. When asked whether he would rule out a pardon for Maxwell, Trump replied: “I haven’t heard the name in so long. I’d have to look at it.” For Raskin this is not forgetfulness but calculation – a deliberate effort to create political leverage. He calls Trump’s behavior “mysterious amnesia” and recalls that the President displayed the same pattern during other scandals – such as the pardon of crypto billionaire Changpeng Zhao.

The congressman now demands written answers by November 24, 2025, to three specific questions: whether Trump or anyone in his administration discussed a pardon for Maxwell, whether orders were given for her preferential treatment, and whether Maxwell or her associates promised anything in return. Raskin warns in his letter that the actions of Blanche and other officials could amount to a “far-reaching violation of criminal law” – including bribery, witness tampering, and obstruction of justice.

The letter was copied to several top officials, including Attorney General Pamela Bondi, Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, Blanche himself, and Warden Hall. What may appear at first glance to be a partisan clash carries far greater weight. If it is confirmed that Maxwell is indeed working on a pardon with knowledge or assistance from the Trump administration – and that she provided false statements about Trump’s contacts with Epstein in exchange – it would amount to nothing less than a new justice scandal at the heart of the U.S. government. Raskin ends his letter with a sentence that reads both as a warning to the President and a reminder to the public: “The time has come for all excuses and silence about the pardon of a convicted sex offend
„Die Zeit ist gekommen, dass alle Ausflüchte und Schweigen über die Begnadigung einer verurteilten Sexualstraftäterin enden. Wir fordern Antworten – jetzt.“

This correspondence – spare in words but cutting in significance – opens a window into the strange proximity of power, money, and guilt. It shows how Epstein, even after his first conviction, continued to enjoy access to the highest circles, and how naturally he regarded the future President as someone who knew. Trump, for his part, has repeatedly claimed in recent years that he expelled Epstein from his Mar-a-Lago club after Epstein “poached spa attendants” there. Allegedly one of them was Virginia Giuffre, who later said Maxwell recruited her into Epstein’s sex ring while she was a teenager working at Mar-a-Lago. Yet in a 2019 email Epstein wrote mockingly: “Never a member, ever.”

The story of their acquaintance is well known: both men moved in the same circles in the 1990s – New York, Palm Beach, private clubs, parties, camera flashes. In 2002 Trump said in an interview about Epstein: “He’s a terrific guy. It’s fun to be with him. People say he likes beautiful women as much as I do – many of them are quite young.” Later he claimed it was a “joke.” But in retrospect, it sounds like a foreshadowing of a truth no one wanted to hear. Maxwell is now serving a twenty-year prison sentence. According to a whistleblower cited by the Democrats, she has recently considered asking Trump for a pardon – a grotesque idea that nonetheless reveals how intertwined power and justice remain in this case.

Epstein himself took his life in his cell in August 2019 – officially. But his emails, his network, his guests, his flight logs, all of it lives on as a shadow archive. The release by the Oversight Committee brings only a fraction to light. Victims’ names have been redacted, the context remains incomplete. Yet the traces are unmistakable: a man who believed himself untouchable wrote about another man who still is.

In the corridors of the Capitol, the whispers have begun again. Whether the President who withholds the files is, in the end, part of those very files. And whether that “dog that didn’t bark” remained silent only because he knew why.