Republicans on the House Oversight Committee released a large tranche of emails and other documents from the Epstein estate, hours after Democrats on the committee released a batch of emails that showed the convicted sex offender discussing President Donald Trump, and alleged he spent time at Epstein’s home with a victim of sex trafficking.
Republicans called the disclosure from Democrats “cherry-picked” and “intentionally withholding records that name Democrat officials,” a spokesperson for the committee said shortly before releasing more than 20,000 files.
The emails from Democrats revealed that in private communication with Ghislaine Maxwell obtained through Epstein’s estate, Epstein wrote in 2011 that Trump, “spent hours at my house” with the victim, adding that the president was a “dog that hasn’t barked.”