The White House hosted an emergency meeting with top Justice Department officials and one of Donald Trump’s most loyal GOP lawmakers following the explosive release of Jeffrey Epstein’s emails on Wednesday.
The emails, released by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee, reveal that the Epstein spoke to Ghislaine Maxwell and the author Michael Wolff about Trump over a period of at least eight years.
Top Trump officials met in the White House Situation Room regarding bipartisan efforts in the House to force a vote on releasing the DOJ’s case files related to Epstein.
The meeting included Attorney General Pam Bondi, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, FBI Director Kash Patel and Republican Colorado Representative Lauren Boebert, according to sources.
Boebert is one of the leading MAGA lawmakers in Congress pushing the Justice Department to publish their trove of Epstein files.
Karoline Leavitt appeared to confirm the meeting took place during a Wednesday briefing.
A reporter asked Trump’s Press Secretary whether the White House was trying to pressure Boebert at the meeting to not sign a petition calling for the full release of the Epstein files.
‘Doesn’t it show transparency that members of the Trump administration are willing to brief members of Congress whenever they please?’ Leavitt asked the reporter.
GOP Colorado Representative Lauren Boebert met with top members of the Trump administration inside the White House following the explosive release of Jeffrey Epstein’s emails discussing his relationship with the President
Epstein claimed that Trump spent hours with one of his victims, Virginia Giuffre
Patel was one of the DOJ leaders who met with Boebert following the Epstein email release
‘Doesn’t that show the level of transparency when we are willing to sit down with members of Congress to address their concerns?’
Leavitt, however, noted that she would not discuss the details of ‘conversations that took place in the Situation Room’ of the White House.
The Democrats redacted the victim’s name, including in a 2011 email Epstein sent Maxwell which claimed the girl ‘spent hours at my house with’ Trump.
The victim referenced in these emails is the late Virginia Giuffre, who repeatedly said President Trump was not involved in any wrongdoing whatsoever and ‘couldn’t have been friendlier’ to her in their limited interactions.
Leavitt called the email dump a politically motivated ‘smear’ campaign and repeated Giuffre’s former statements about Trump in which she absolved him of any wrongdoing.
Giuffre, who committed suicide earlier this year, was recruited by Maxwell while employed as a spa attendant at the Mar-a-Lago Club in 2000. She was 16 years old.
Trump expelled Epstein from his club around October 2007 ‘for being a creep to his female employees, including Giuffre,’ Leavitt said.
In an email dated April 2, 2011, Epstein wrote to Maxwell: ‘i want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is trump.. virignia [sic] spent hours at my house with him, he has never once been mentioned. police chief. etc. im 75% there.’
Trump with his then-girlfriend Melania Knauss, Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell at the Mar-a-Lago Club on February 12, 2000
Maxwell replied: ‘I have been thinking about that…’
The context of their exchange is not clear. Around three years earlier, Epstein was jailed in Florida after pleading guilty to solicitation of prostitution with a minor.
The communications were released after Democrats subpoenaed Epstein’s estate earlier this year.
Trump did not send or receive any of the emails, and he has not been charged with any crime in relation to Epstein or Maxwell.
