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New emails released by the House Oversight Committee show that convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein called President Donald Trump a “maniac.”
Epstein, who died by suicide in prison in 2019, also suggested that Trump could be suffering from early dementia.
Trump’s health has recently come under scrutiny, with him having two medical exams so far this year and confusing an early dementia test with a test to measure IQ.
- Newly released emails reveal Jeffrey Epstein called President Trump a 'maniac' and suggested he could have early dementia.
- Epstein offered a New York Times reporter photos of Trump with women in his kitchen wearing bikinis.
- Epstein warned an attorney that treating Trump like a mafia boss ignored his real dangerous power and called him a 'maniac.'
Jeffrey Epstein frequently discussed Donald Trump in his emails
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In one email exchange in January 2018, Epstein commented on a statement Trump gave in response to journalist Michael Wolff’s book about the Trump administration.
“No questions donalds statement was goofy,” Epstein wrote. “Early dementia?”
It was one of many email exchanges in which Epstein discussed Trump, who has always denied having knowledge of Epstein’s illegal activities.
Wolff, who interviewed Epstein at length in 2017, appeared in email exchanges often and at times gave Epstein advice on how to manage his relationship with Trump in the media.
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Epstein was also in contact with former New York Times finance reporter Thomas Landon Jr., whom he offered images of Trump alongside women in bikinis.
On December 8, 2015, Epstein asked Landon Jr., “would you like photos of donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen.”
“Yes!!!” the then-NYT journalist responded, to which Epstein replied, “Hawaiian Tropic girl Lauren Petrella.”
In another reply, Epstein sent Landon Jr. a link to an article about Norwegian cosmetics heiress and businesswoman Celina Midelfart.
He wrote next to the link, “my 20-year-old girlfriend in 93, that after two years i gave to donald.”
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Epstein also conversed with attorney and former White House Counsel to Barack Obama, Kathryn Ruemmler, in December 2018.
“You might want to tell your dem friends that treating trump like a mafia don, ignores the fact that he has great dangerous power,” he wrote.
“Tightening the noose too slowly risks a very bad situation. Gambino was never the commander-in-chief; there was little Gambino could do as the walls closed in.
“Not so with this maniac.”
Trump has always denied knowledge of Epstein’s criminal activities
The never-before-seen Epstein emails released by Oversight Dems raise serious questions about why the White House continues to cover up the Epstein files.
This cannot go on. It’s time the American people got the truth. It’s time to release the files. pic.twitter.com/caTK4DS40B
— Oversight Dems (@OversightDems) November 12, 2025
In April 2018, Epstein told Emirati businessman Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem that Trump had no friends.
“Donald is close to no one,” he wrote. “He talks to many people. He tells each one something different.”
Former British Prince Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, who was summoned by House Democrats over his ties to Epstein last week, was also mentioned in some email exchanges.
In 2011, Epstein appeared to reference Andrew accuser, Virginia Guiffre, who took her own life earlier this year, when emailing prominent publicist Peggy Siegal.
In the exchange, Epstein asked Siegal to reach out to media mogul Ariana Huffington—co-founder of The Huffington Post—in a bid to clear his name.
“Ariana should champion the dangers of false allegations, send a reporter or reporters to investigate,” Epstein wrote, referring to Guiffre.
Image credits: House Oversight Committee
He added, “The palace would love it, the girl in the photo, was nothing more than a telephone answerer,, she was never 15, according to her version she worked for trump, first at that age, at MAra lago.”
Andrew has denied any wrongdoing.
The emails appeared in a trove of 22,000 documents released by the GOP-led House Oversight Committee on Wednesday.
The release came shortly after House Democrats published emails between Epstein and associate Ghislaine Maxwell, as well as more emails with Wolff.
In those emails, Epstein appears to suggest that Trump knew of his conduct and spent several hours with a sex trafficking victim.
Why did Democrats cover up the name when the Estate didn’t redact it in the redacted documents provided to the committee?
It’s because this victim, Virginia Giuffre, publicly said that she never witnessed wrongdoing by President Trump.
Democrats are trying to create a fake… https://t.co/vd7gw3kJl0
— Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) November 12, 2025
The White House has described the emails as an attempted smear campaign, and it named the victim as Guiffre.
The first email exchange, dated April 2, 2011, was sent from Epstein to Maxwell.
It read, “I want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is trump.. [Victim] spent hours at my house with him, he has never once been mentioned. Police chief. etc. im 75% there.”
Maxwell responded, “I have been thinking about that…”
“Trump said he asked me to resign, never a member ever,” Epstein wrote to Wolff on January 31, 2019. “Of course he knew about the girls as he asked ghislaine to stop.”
The House is set to force a vote on the release of the Epstein files
Image credits: Donald J Trump
The third email released by Democrats is of Wolff discussing Trump potentially being questioned over his links to Epstein.
After Epstein asked whether he should help craft an answer, Wolff advised that he should “let him [Trump] hang himself,” and if he saves him, he could “generate a debt.”
Trump has described the emails as a “Democratic hoax” and claimed they were released to distract from the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.
“The Democrats are trying to bring up the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax again because they’ll do anything at all to deflect on how badly they’ve done on the Shutdown, and so many other subjects,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
BREAKING: @RepThomasMassie & my discharge petition now has the 218 signatures needed to force a vote on our bill to release the full Epstein files.
Tuesday at 9am, we’re holding a press conference with brave survivors on Capitol Hill. We want a big vote in the House & Senate. pic.twitter.com/ZuAgOdAh9Q
— Rep. Ro Khanna (@RepRoKhanna) November 13, 2025
“Only a very bad, or stupid, Republican would fall into that trap.”
He added, “There should be no deflections to Epstein or anything else, and any Republicans involved should be focused only on opening up our Country, and fixing the massive damage caused by the Democrats!”
With the House now at the 218 signatures needed to force a vote on releasing the Epstein files, it seems unlikely that Trump’s hope of leaving the Epstein saga behind will come true anytime soon.
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