David Enrich

Never a member ever.

Of course he knew about the girls as he asked Ghislaine to stop.

And so there's a certain amount here that we know contextually what he's referring to.

And Trump has said publicly that he severed ties with Epstein because Epstein, quote, stole a girl from Mar-a-Lago.

And that's a reference to Virginia Giuffre, who was a spa assistant at Mar-a-Lago, who became one of Epstein's victims.

And Trump has said repeatedly that he threw Epstein out as a member of Mar-a-Lago.

So this is very clearly Epstein telling Wolf, for reasons that are not entirely clear, that Trump had full awareness of what Epstein was doing and apparently the fact that he and his associates were recruiting young women and perhaps girls from Mar-a-Lago into their sex trafficking operation.

He's saying that, but to me the bigger sentence is of course he knew about the girls.

And obviously Trump has denied having any knowledge of the sex trafficking operation.

And so this would appear to be

uh refutation of that argument now again it's very important to remember that epstein is a notorious liar and manipulator and so we really just don't know if this is true but it clearly shows that epstein is telling other people that trump had knowledge about what was going on and again it's not

It's not clear why he was telling this to Michael Wolff.

We've obviously tried to speak to Michael Wolff and everyone else who we're writing about in these emails today.

Wolff has not responded to our requests today.

Others have also not responded and some have just declined to comment.

I'm not sure I would use the word contradict, but there's certainly some tension here.

I have been thinking about that.

And that certainly implies that Maxwell knew about something that was going on with Trump.

There are potentially some, I guess, plausible explanations in which that does not contradict what she said this summer to the Justice Department.

But there's certainly on their face does seem to be some tension.