Before he died, Jeffrey Epstein made it clear that Donald Trump “knew about the girls”.

Trump has denied any knowledge of or involvement in Epstein’s longstanding child sex-trafficking operation. But in newly released emails that members of Congress disclosed to the media amid the end of this fall’s government shutdown, the dead child sex trafficker and financier can be seen corresponding on many occasions about Donald Trump, his former close friend and associate, throughout the last few years of his life, as Trump’s rise to prominence in national politics beginning in 2015 drew renewed attention to his relationship with Epstein.

When Landon Thomas Jr, then a reporter at the New York Times, wrote to Epstein in 2015 asking about his relationship with Trump, Epstein (who in the documents has a habit of not using punctuation or capitalization in his emails), said, “have them ask my houseman about donald almost walking through the door leaving his nose print on the glass as young women were swimming in the pool he was so focused he walked straight into the door.” If it hadn’t happened in the backdrop to so much sexual exploitation and violence, the scene described by Jeffrey Epstein would sound like something out of a screwball comedy. In another exchange with Thomas, Epstein asks, “would you like to see photos of donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen?”

Throughout the emails, Epstein depicts Trump as someone he knew intimately, someone whose mind and habits he can provide insight into for others. “You see , i know how dirty donald is,”

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