- By Shivangi Sharma
- Thu, 13 Nov 2025 05:47 PM (IST)
- Source:JND
A series of newly unsealed emails belonging to disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein have reignited controversy around his connections with US President Donald Trump. The messages, reviewed by CNN and released by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, contain Epstein’s personal remarks about Trump and his inner circle, shedding new light on their past interactions.
In one of the 2018 email threads, Epstein wrote to Kathryn Ruemmler, a former White House counsel under President Barack Obama, saying, “I know how dirty Donald is.” The email was sent shortly after Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations and agreed to cooperate with federal investigators.
Ruemmler, who now serves as chief legal officer at Goldman Sachs, was one of several high-profile figures in Epstein’s contact network. The correspondence is part of more than 20,000 emails and documents subpoenaed from Epstein’s estate by Democratic lawmakers investigating his influence and relationships with prominent individuals.
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Emails Reveal Longstanding Conversations
According to the released batch, Epstein’s emails with associates like Ghislaine Maxwell and author Michael Wolff spanned over 15 years. The exchanges reportedly included gossip about political figures and private musings on current events.
In one 2017 thread, former Harvard president Larry Summers told Epstein that Saudi officials viewed Trump as “a clown, increasingly dangerous on foreign policy.” In another message, Summers made controversial comments about women and intelligence.
Epstein also claimed in one email that Trump “spent hours at my house” with a woman identified by the committee as one of Epstein’s sex trafficking victims. Another message suggested that Trump “knew about the girls,” contradicting Trump’s past assertions that he had banned Epstein from Mar-a-Lago.
Trump Team Pushes Back
The White House dismissed the release as a politically motivated attempt to discredit Trump ahead of the 2024 election. Press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Democrats “selectively leaked emails to the liberal media to create a fake narrative to smear President Trump.”
Trump himself reacted on social media, calling it “another Jeffrey Epstein hoax” and accusing Democrats of trying to distract from issues like the government shutdown and economic troubles.
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