Democrats in the House Oversight Committee released on Wednesday a new batch of emails from Jeffrey Epstein, the deceased sex criminal who was notoriously in contact with all sorts of powerful people. By now it is well known that Donald Trump was connected to Epstein in many ways, but these new emails indicate more explicitly that Trump had some awareness of Epstein's sex trafficking. The correspondences are dated between 2011 and 2019, the year of Epstein's death in jail, and his correspondents spanned industries and nominal political affiliations. They included Kathryn Ruemmler, former White House Counsel to President Barack Obama; Larry Summers, economist and former Harvard president; Michael Wolff, columnist and journalist; Peggy Siegal, entertainment publicist; and Ghislaine Maxwell, close associate and fellow sex offender. Epstein sent his emails from accounts that riffed on his initials, like "[email protected]" or "[email protected]," and he punctuated them like E. E. Cummings. In the messages, Epstein talked about business and life, spoke dismissively about Trump's capacities and legal affairs, offered PR and journalism advice, and made one remark that can be read as an open reference to his own pedophilia.

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