Newly released Epstein files mentioning US President Donald Trump have sparked a backlash from the White House.
According to CNN, the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday, November 12, released an additional 20,000 pages of new documents that the GOP-led panel received from sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s estate.
The newly released documents also included email exchanges in which the disgraced financier who died in 2019 mentioned Trump. The emails also feature exchanges between Epstein and his long-time associate Ghislaine Maxwell, and also with the author Michael Wolff.
Following the release of documents and backlash, the White House came out in defence of the US president and accused Democrats of "selectively leaking emails to the liberal media to create a fake narrative to smear President Trump," adding that the emails "prove absolutely nothing, other than the fact that President Trump did nothing wrong.”
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters, “Jeffrey Epstein was a member at Mar-a-Lago until President Trump kicked him out because Jeffrey Epstein was a paedophile and he was a creep… We are cooperating and showing support for the House Oversight Committee. That’s part of the reason you are seeing these documents that were released today, because of the House Oversight Committees and Republicans’ efforts to get these out to the public.”
Meanwhile, Trump, who signed the bill to end the government shutdown after the release of documents, claimed that the Democrats have brought up these files to “deflect” from their handling of the government shutdown.
