President Donald Trump, who once said admiringly that sex-trafficking child rapist Jeffrey Epstein liked women “on the younger side,” may need new explanations for his ties with his late friend, now that his old ones have been debunked as lies.

Ever since Epstein’s conviction on a Florida prostitution charge in 2008, Trump has been claiming that he knew nothing about his close friend’s relationships with underage girls — claims that were directly refuted in emails made public on Wednesday from Epstein himself to his associate and fellow sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell and journalist Michael Wolff.

“These emails prove absolutely nothing other than the fact that Trump did nothing wrong,” press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters Wednesday. “This is truly a manufactured hoax by the Democrat Party.”

In the emails released by House Oversight Committee Democrats with victims’ names redacted, which the committee obtained by subpoenaing Epstein’s estate, Epstein and Maxwell expressed concern in 2011 that Trump, who was then talking about running for president in 2012, had not yet mentioned them.

“i want you to realise that that dog that hasn’t barked is trump,” Epstein wrote. “[VICTIM] spent hours at my house with him,, he has never once been mentioned. police chief. etc. im 75 % there”

Maxwell answered back: “I’ve been thinking about that...”

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