Epstein offered reporter photos of 'donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen'

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Among the much than 20,000 Epstein documents released by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee connected Wednesday are respective email exchanges disgraced financier and enactment offender Jeffrey Epstein had successful 2015 and 2016 with friends, attorneys and reporters astir the imaginable of a Donald Trump presidency.

In immoderate instances, Epstein offers suggestions to reporters astir leads they mightiness pursue.

One notable illustration is an email speech betwixt Epstein and then-New York Times newsman Landon Thomas, Jr. successful December 2015.

Thomas initiated the speech connected Dec. 8, 2015, with an email to Epstein referring to a 2002 New York mag nonfiction Thomas had written, successful which Trump was quoted calling Epstein a "terrific guy" who "likes beauteous women arsenic overmuch arsenic I do, and galore of them are connected the younger side."

"Now everyone is coming to maine reasoning I person juicy info connected you and Trump. Because of this," the newsman wrote, referring to that article.

Epstein past replied to Thomas successful a bid of emails implicit the adjacent 2 hours -- successful his emblematic error-ridden benignant -- archetypal suggesting that Thomas look into Trump's finances earlier pivoting to much idiosyncratic subjects.

In 1 email, Epstein writes: "would you similar photso [sic] of donald and girls successful bikinis successful my kitchen." Thomas replied, "Yes!!"

It's unclear whether Epstein possessed specified photos oregon if helium ever sent the newsman immoderate photos.

In different email, Epstein suggested that reporters "ask my houseman astir donad [sic] astir walking done the doorway leaving his chemoreceptor people connected the solid arsenic young women were swimming successful the excavation and helium was truthful focused helium walked consecutive into the door."

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ABC News has reached retired to the White House astir Epstein's claims successful the email speech with the New York Times reporter.

The Republican-controlled House Oversight and Government Committee released the thousands of pages of caller Epstein documents connected Wednesday aft House Democrats released 3 emails successful which Epstein discussed Trump.

The documents were obtained aft the committee subpoenaed the Epstein Estate implicit the summer.

The White House accused Democrats connected the committee of releasing "selectively leaked emails to the wide media to make a fake narrative" astir President Trump," including 1 successful which Epstein wrote that Trump "spent hours astatine my house" with idiosyncratic the Democrats alleged was a victim.

"These emails beryllium perfectly nothing, different than the information that President Trump did thing wrong," White House property caput Karoline Leavitt said.

In Epstein's exchanges with Thomas, the New York Times reporter, Epstein sent a nexus to a diagnostic communicative astir a pistillate that Epstein claimed had been his woman who aboriginal dated Trump.

"my 20 twelvemonth aged woman successful 93 ,, that aft 2 years I gave to donald," Epstein wrote.

During Trump's archetypal run for the presidency, Epstein was besides successful predominant interaction with author Michael Wolff, who was moving connected a publication astir Trump.

In galore messages, Wolff appeared to beryllium encouraging Epstein to talk publically astir his erstwhile narration with the candidate, noting that galore reporters and his governmental rivals were investigating the issue.

"NYT called maine astir you and Trump," Wolff told Epstein successful February 2016. "Also, Hillary run digging deeply, Again, you should see preempting."

In October 2016, aft the "Access Hollywood" tapes had been made nationalist and conscionable days earlier the statesmanlike election, Wolff sent Epstein different message, with "Now could beryllium the time" successful the taxable line.

"There's an accidental to travel guardant this week and speech astir Trump successful specified a mode that could garner you large sympathy and assistance decorativeness him. Interested?"

It's unclear if Epstein responded to that message.

Other emails see exchanges Epstein had during Trump's archetypal word successful office.

A fewer days aft Trump's archetypal inauguration, connected Feb. 8, 2017, Epstein, successful speech with Larry Summers, who was the treasury caput nether President Bill Clinton and erstwhile president of Harvard University said, "Recall ive told you,, -- one person met immoderate precise atrocious radical ,, nary arsenic atrocious arsenic trump. not 1 decent compartment successful his body.. truthful yes- dangerous."

In August 2018, Kathryn Ruemmler, who antecedently served arsenic White House counsel during portion of President Barack Obama's administration, emailed Epstein a nexus to an sentiment portion published by The New York Times that made the lawsuit for Trump's impeachment, pursuing the blameworthy pleas of Trump's erstwhile idiosyncratic lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen.

"you spot , one cognize however soiled donald is," Epstein wrote to Ruemmler. "my conjecture is that non lawyers ny biz radical person nary idea. what it means to person your fixer flip."

In a Dec. 3, 2018 speech implicit iMessage, idiosyncratic whose sanction is redacted wrote to Epstein, "It volition each stroke over! They're truly conscionable trying to instrumentality down Trump and doing immoderate they tin to bash that...!"

The discourse of this connection is unclear.

"yes thx," Epstein responded. "its wild. due to the fact that one americium the 1 capable to instrumentality him down."

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