Gambiaj.com – (WASHINGTON, DC) – A new trove of emails linked to the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has intensified political and public scrutiny of President Donald Trump, drawing his administration deeper into a scandal it has struggled to contain.
The explosive material, released Wednesday by the House Oversight Committee, included several messages between Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell that mentioned Trump by name.
While none of the documents suggested criminal wrongdoing by the president, their publication has reignited questions about his past ties to Epstein and about why the White House is resisting the release of all Epstein-related files.
“With his characteristic calm and restraint, the President of the Republic fully assumed his decision,” the media reported.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt dismissed the controversy, saying the emails “prove absolutely nothing other than the fact that President Trump did nothing wrong.” Yet the correspondence, which also contained disparaging comments by Epstein about Trump, has already fueled a political storm that shows no sign of abating.
A Scandal That Refuses to Die
The new documents, some dating back more than a decade, were released just as Republicans hoped to mark the end of the longest government shutdown in U.S. history as a political victory. Instead, the Epstein revelations dominated Washington headlines, overshadowing legislative achievements and sparking accusations of a cover-up.
Among the newly surfaced emails was one from April 2011, in which Epstein wrote to Maxwell: “I want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is Trump.” Maxwell replied, “I have been thinking about that…” The cryptic exchange has drawn widespread attention, though its meaning remains unclear.
Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking, has publicly stated she never saw Trump behave inappropriately. “The president was never inappropriate with anybody,” she told Justice Department officials earlier this year.
Still, other messages portray Epstein’s growing disdain for Trump in later years. In a 2018 exchange with former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, Epstein described Trump as “borderline insane.” In another 2017 message to a New York Times reporter, he wrote bluntly, “Donald is f**king crazy.”
White House Response Backfires
Instead of calming the controversy, the administration’s response has only intensified speculation. Officials have wavered over whether to release all Epstein-related government files, a reversal that critics say has made the White House appear evasive.
In a highly unusual move, senior officials, including Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel, reportedly met Rep.
Lauren Boebert in the White House Situation Room to discuss a petition demanding the release of the Epstein files. The choice of venue, typically reserved for national security crises, sparked bipartisan astonishment.
Rep. Boebert later told CNN that while Epstein was discussed, she was not pressured to withdraw her name from the petition. “The work is too important,” she said. “No one believes us. And we never get justice.”
Meanwhile, GOP lawmakers such as Reps. Nancy Mace and Tim Burchett have publicly broken ranks with the White House, insisting that transparency must prevail. “Just get it to the daggum floor and let the people decide,” Burchett said.
Republican Unease and Political Fallout
The controversy comes at a politically fragile moment for Trump. His approval ratings have dipped amid economic concerns, and his allies on Capitol Hill appear increasingly divided.
A pending House vote next week on whether to compel the Justice Department to release all Epstein files could test the president’s influence within his own party.
Rep. James Walkinshaw, a Democrat on the Oversight Committee, questioned Trump’s motives in withholding the documents. “Why doesn’t he want to do that?” he asked. “What’s in those files that he wants to allow this drip, drip, drip of bad news to continue?”
For now, there is no indication that the emails expose criminal conduct by Trump. But the renewed attention to his association with Epstein, a man who moved in the same elite social circles and died by suicide in 2019 while facing sex-trafficking charges, has further damaged the president’s image and distracted from his policy agenda.
As one Washington insider observed, the “dog that hasn’t barked” in Epstein’s cryptic phrase may finally be barking, loudly, and it is not clear how President Trump can silence it.
