The White House convened an emergency meeting with senior Justice Department officials and prominent Republican lawmakers following the dramatic release of Jeffrey Epstein's emails, which revealed the late financier's discussions about Donald Trump spanning eight years.
Emergency Meeting at White House
According to White House sources, the high-level gathering included Attorney General Pam Bondi, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, FBI Director Kash Patel, and Republican Colorado Representative Lauren Boebert. The meeting focused on bipartisan efforts in the House of Representatives to force a vote on releasing the Justice Department's complete Epstein case files.
Boebert has emerged as one of the leading Republican voices in Congress pushing for full disclosure of the Epstein documents. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt appeared to confirm the meeting occurred during her Wednesday press briefing, though she declined to discuss specific details of conversations that took place in the White House Situation Room.
Explosive Email Revelations
The emails, released by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee, show Epstein communicated with Ghislaine Maxwell and author Michael Wolff about Trump over at least an eight-year period. In one particularly revealing 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."
Maxwell responded cryptically: "I have been thinking about that…" though the full context of their exchange remains unclear. The Virginia referenced in these communications is the late Virginia Giuffre, who was recruited by Maxwell while working as a spa attendant at Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club in 2000 when she was just 16 years old.
White House Response and Historical Context
Press Secretary Leavitt characterised the email release as a politically motivated "smear campaign" and emphasised that Giuffre had repeatedly stated President Trump was not involved in any wrongdoing and "couldn't have been friendlier" to her during their limited interactions.
Leavitt also revealed that Trump had expelled Epstein from his club around October 2007 "for being a creep to his female employees, including Giuffre." The communications became public after Democrats subpoenaed Epstein's estate earlier this year.
Despite the email content discussing Trump, the former president did not send or receive any of the released messages and has not been charged with any crime related to Epstein or Maxwell. The White House maintains its position of transparency while navigating the political fallout from these latest revelations.
