Before the House and Senate voted nearly unanimously—with just one “nay” in the House—to unseal the Jeffrey Epstein investigative records, the Epstein estate released 20,000 pages of unseen Epstein files to the House Oversight Committee. Following that, Democrats began their tour of publicizing a handpicked set of documents from that newly obtained trove of files. Notably, nearly all their selections reference one person only: President Donald Trump. One such set includes three email exchanges, out of the trove of over 20,000 pages, that were used to cast Trump in a suspicious light.

For example, in one 2011 email from Epstein to his associate Ghislaine Maxwell, he referred to Trump as “the dog that hasn’t barked” and noted that a young woman, an alleged victim of Epstein, had “spent hours at my house with him,” yet “he has never once been mentioned.” In another email from 2019, Epstein outright claimed, “of course Trump knew about the girls as he asked Ghislaine to stop.” House Democrats predictably touted these snippets to show that there was some White House coverup of the full Epstein files.

Yet the context behind these emails was notably thin.

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