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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Anna Betts

Epstein emails thrust Trump back into spotlight over past ties

a person wearing a blue cap, white shit and yellow backpack holds up a phone to take a picture of a large photograph in a bus shelter showing Donald Trump and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein
A passerby stops to take a picture of a photograph of Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump in a bus shelter in London on 17 July 2025. Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty Images

The release of previously unseen emails sent by convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has thrust Donald Trump back into the center of the long-running Epstein controversy that has plagued his administration for months, inflamed parts of his own political base and offered Democrats an ongoing line of political attack.

On Wednesday, Democrats on the House oversight and government reform committee released email exchanges from 2011, 2015 and 2019 that they say were provided by the estate of the late Epstein, who died by suicide in federal prison in 2019 while awaiting trial on federal charges of sex-trafficking minors.

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