An unredacted 2009 email linked to Jeffrey Epstein Asking new question Donald TrumpHe has long claimed that he kicked Epstein out of the Mar-a-Lago club. Speaking on the House floor, New York Rep. Dan Goldman said he had reviewed the full version of the email, originally released in a heavily redacted form by the Justice Department, and believed it showed Epstein “was never asked to leave” the club, The Daily Beast reported.In an unredacted 2009 email from Jeffrey Epstein’s lawyer, Jack Goldberg appears to summarize a “20-minute conference call” with Trump, Trump’s lawyer Alan Garten, and a man named “Brad” (possibly Brad Edwards, who represents Epstein’s victims). The meeting was held “in lieu of a warehouse,” Goldberg wrote.Asked whether Epstein had ever been expelled from Mar-a-Lago, Kato allegedly replied: “No, he was not a member. Probably his guest. Never asked to leave.”Goldberg’s email states that the man known as “Brad” spoke with a Mar-a-Lago manager, who confirmed that “JE never asked to leave Mar-a-Lago.”According to the email, Trump was asked to respond to claims by Epstein’s brother, Mark, that Trump flew on the “Lolita Express,” the convicted sex offender’s plane.“I’ve been on a lot of planes. Probably on his plane. There were no young girls on the plane,” the future president allegedly said.Asked if he had been to Epstein’s home, Trump said: “I may have been there with my wife.”“Are there any young girls there?” he was apparently asked.“No kids that could be guests, but that’s it,” he allegedly replied.The email appears to contradict Trump’s repeated claims that he kicked Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago, a claim the White House has relied on as details of the president’s close friendship with Epstein emerged.Trump, who appears thousands of times in Epstein’s dossier, said he was not “friendly” to Epstein and had “never” flown on Epstein’s plane.The story cited photos and videos of Trump and Epstein together in New York and Florida and said they dated from the 1980s until sometime in the 2000s. It also cites the flight log named President.The story also mentions Trump and Melania with Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell at the Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, on February 12, 2000, and Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein in New York City on April 9, 1997.The 79-year-old president told reporters last July that he severed ties with Epstein after he “stole” female employees from his exclusive Florida members’ club. White House press secretary Carolyn Levitt has frequently pushed back against scrutiny of Trump’s ties to Epstein, declaring: “President Trump did nothing wrong and kicked Jeffrey Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago because he is a nuisance.”Goldberg’s emails cast doubt on those claims, reporting that Epstein remained a member of the club until October 2007, more than a year after he was charged with prostitution, according to Mar-a-Lago membership documents seen by the author of “The Hustlers Club: Trump, Mar-a-Lago, and the Selling of the Presidency.”In a speech on the House floor, Goldman accused Trump of “making false statements about Jeffrey Epstein over the past quarter-century” and criticized Attorney General Pam Bondi’s department’s redaction of emails.“The reason this matter is important is because we don’t have half of the Epstein documents,” he said, adding that the Justice Department identified 6 million Epstein documents that could be released but disclosed about 3.5 million.“If the attorney general covered up this information that she subsequently disclosed to Congress, what else was she covering up about Donald Trump’s involvement in the Epstein dossier?” he asked.
