He thought he took his secrets to the grave — but now, with just a few lines of text and a name too big to ignore, the ghost of Jeffrey Epstein is rattling the gates of Mar-a-Lago, and Donald Trump is once again facing questions he’d rather bury.
Fresh outrage is erupting in the wake of newly uncovered emails from disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, this time dragging Donald Trump back into the scandal that refuses to die. The messages, released by House Democrats, hint at deeper ties between the two men — and now, Epstein’s brother Mark Epstein is speaking publicly for the first time.
Donald Trump and his then-girlfriend (and future wife) Melania Knauss pose with financier Jeffrey Epstein and British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell at the Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, on February 12, 2000. | Source: Getty Images
Cryptic Messages and a Mysterious House Visit
In a brief but loaded exchange with Newsweek, Mark said he wouldn’t be “surprised” if there were more damaging messages involving Donald. Still, he stopped short of confirming or denying their existence. When asked about journalist and author Michael Wolff’s commentary on the matter, he admitted he had “no opinion.”
At the center of the latest revelations is an email dated April 2, 2011, in which Jeffrey refers to Donald as “the dog that hasn’t barked.” In the same message, he makes an unsettling claim — that an unnamed victim had spent “hours at my house with him.”
The message was sent just weeks after the British press began pulling the lid off Jeffrey’s secretive world — one filled with elite names, scandal, and silence. This email was among three selected from a massive trove of more than 23,000 documents recently handed over to House Democrats by the Epstein Estate after a subpoena.
Any identifying information about alleged victims was redacted, but the insinuations remain disturbing.
Another series of emails adds further intrigue. In December 2015, as Donald’s presidential campaign gained steam, Michael, who has chronicled Donald’s time in the White House, messaged Jeffrey.
“I hear CNN planning to ask Donald tonight about his relationship with you—either on air or in scrum afterwards,” Michael warned. Jeffrey replied, “If we were to craft an answer for him, what do you think it should be?”
Michael’s response was cold and strategic. He said, “I think you should let him hang himself… If he says he hasn’t been on the plane or to the house, then that gives you a valuable PR and political currency.” He added that if Donald looked like he could actually win, Jeffrey could “save him,
Donald Allegedly Knew ‘About the Girls’
The final message — dated January 2019, with Donald in the White House — may be the most damning yet. “Donald said he asked me to resign, never a member ever,” Jeffrey wrote. “Of course he knew about the girls as he asked Ghislaine to stop.”
The full context of the messages is still unclear, but these fragments are already reigniting questions that many thought had been buried — and Mark’s guarded words suggest more revelations may be on the horizon.
Following the release of the emails, Donald wasted no time in addressing the matter publicly — though not the content itself. Taking to Truth Social, he sidestepped the specifics and instead slammed Democrats for trying to manipulate the narrative.
He claimed they were using the Epstein issue not to raise concerns about his connection to Jeffrey, but to distract from the looming government shutdown.
