In a dramatic moment on the House floor Wednesday, Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) read an unredacted email written in 2009 by Jack Goldberger, who was serving as an attorney for the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein at the time.
The email seems to prove that some of the biggest claims Donald Trump has made about his connections to Epstein are a complete fabrication.
According to The Daily Beast, “The email showcased by Goldman, a Democrat, suggests that Epstein was ‘never asked to leave’ Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club, and features Trump saying he ‘may have been’ on Epstein’s plane, as well as at Epstein’s house.”
The report continues: “In the email, Goldberger appears to have summarized a ’20-minute phone conference’ with Trump, Trump’s attorney Alan Garten, and a person named ‘Brad,’ presumably Brad Edwards, who has represented Epstein’s victims. Goldberger wrote that the conference was conducted ‘in lieu of a depo.'”
“The email appears to contradict Trump’s repeated claim that he expelled Epstein from Mar-a-Lago, a story the White House has leaned on as details of the president’s close friendship with Epstein have surfaced.”
“Responding to whether Epstein was ever expelled from Mar-a-Lago, Garten allegedly replied, “‘No he was not a member. May have been his guest. Never asked to leave.'”
Trump has also claimed that he never flew on Epstein’s private plane. That also appears to be a lie.
“The president is named in flight logs of the pedophile’s plane, and countless photographs and videos show them partying together in New York and Florida. Trump and Epstein socialized together beginning in the 1980s until sometime in the 2000s.”
All of this led Goldman to thunder on the House floor, “The reason why this matters is because we don’t have half of the Epstein files!”
The Department of Justice says it has approximately 6 million Epstein files in its possession, but has only released about 3.5 million of them so far, which violates a law passed by Congress with bipartisan support in November of last year.
“If the attorney general is covering up this information that she then reveals to Congress, what else is she covering up about Donald Trump’s involvement in the Epstein files?” Goldman asked.
As the old saying reminds us, Where there’s smoke, there’s fire. And there must be one hell of a blaze when it comes to just how chummy Donald Trump was with Jeffrey Epstein.
