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muriel_volestrangler

(105,192 posts)
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 01:58 PM 11 hrs ago

"i want you to realize that that dog that hasn't barked is trump.. virignia spent hours at my house with him"

One email, from Epstein to Maxwell in April 2011, claims Trump spent hours with a victim. It reads:

"I want you to realize that that dog that hasn't barked is trump.. [Victim] spent hours at my house with him."



Shortly afterwards, the White House put out a statement saying the “unnamed victim” was Virginia Giuffre who "repeatedly said President Trump was not involved in any wrongdoing whatsoever".

Since that statement, BBC Verify has been combing through the documents released by the Republican-controlled House Oversight Committee. It has found the same email - in a file named HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031326.txt.

However, unlike the fully redacted one put out by the US House Democrats, a name does appear:

"i want you to realize that that dog that hasn't barked is trump.. virignia spent hours at my house with him ,,"

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2dr3z9egljt?post=asset%3A24f42665-d062-4ea3-af9c-8bff2adf1dc0#post
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"i want you to realize that that dog that hasn't barked is trump.. virignia spent hours at my house with him" (Original Post) muriel_volestrangler 11 hrs ago OP
I'm sure Virginia and Trump were engaged in a debate over economics Jersey Devil 11 hrs ago #1
The White House defense is so cringe: yes, he was there, but young Virginia said he did nothing wrong Prairie Gates 11 hrs ago #2
Yet Trump's never been called as a witness leftstreet 11 hrs ago #3
Do you have links to (Prince) Andrew's testimony in similar trials? W_HAMILTON 10 hrs ago #11
Trump was a witness in vs Andrew suit? leftstreet 10 hrs ago #15
My point was that everyone thinks -- knows? -- that (Prince) Andrew sexually assaulted an Epstein minor... W_HAMILTON 10 hrs ago #16
okay n/t leftstreet 10 hrs ago #17
How definitive is it that she committed suicide? unitedwethrive 11 hrs ago #4
That's what I've been thinking today. BannonsLiver 11 hrs ago #6
Did she really kill herself? malaise 11 hrs ago #5
I read she promised purr-rat beauty 10 hrs ago #8
The DC Madam supposedly killed herself too. yardwork 10 hrs ago #10
I remember that well malaise 10 hrs ago #14
Chump was nationally known in 2011 from The Apprentice and various TV ads FakeNoose 10 hrs ago #7
2011 is when Trump started talking about running for president. yardwork 10 hrs ago #13
Yeah he might have talked but nobody was listening FakeNoose 10 hrs ago #18
The one teen at the center of salacious allegations against Trump "committed suicide." How convenient. Sorry, but based Doodley 10 hrs ago #9
"One teen"? There's no way to know until we see the evidence FakeNoose 9 hrs ago #19
I never... 2naSalit 10 hrs ago #12
MaddowBlog-Newly disclosed Jeffrey Epstein emails complicate matters for Donald Trump LetMyPeopleVote 7 hrs ago #20

Jersey Devil

(10,601 posts)
1. I'm sure Virginia and Trump were engaged in a debate over economics
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 02:02 PM
11 hrs ago

Perhaps a philosophical discussion of how many angels can sit on the head of a pin.

Prairie Gates

(6,796 posts)
2. The White House defense is so cringe: yes, he was there, but young Virginia said he did nothing wrong
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 02:05 PM
11 hrs ago

I mean, that's what she said before she turned up dead at the beginning of this year, anyway.

Ooooof.

Anyway, what did Trump think young Virginia was doing at the house of his dear friend who, as Trump used to love to joke, "liked them young har har?"

leftstreet

(38,208 posts)
3. Yet Trump's never been called as a witness
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 02:07 PM
11 hrs ago

In any of the proceedings against Epstein, or Guiffre's civil trials, Maxwell, etc

leftstreet

(38,208 posts)
15. Trump was a witness in vs Andrew suit?
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 02:49 PM
10 hrs ago

Did you mean this for me?

No, I have no links. I hardly follow this shit. But I'm pretty sure Trump's never been a witness under oath, or we'd have heard about it. I could be wrong

W_HAMILTON

(9,861 posts)
16. My point was that everyone thinks -- knows? -- that (Prince) Andrew sexually assaulted an Epstein minor...
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 02:55 PM
10 hrs ago

...yet I don't believe he was called as a witness in any similar trials you mentioned either.

BannonsLiver

(20,089 posts)
6. That's what I've been thinking today.
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 02:16 PM
11 hrs ago

Even if she did it on her own, who knows if the mental anguish she was enduring came from seeing what happened to Epstein and fearing that something might happen to her as well. And then there's Ivana and the stairs and the weird, unceremonious burial. And who could forget his weirdo doctor, who died in 2021. I'm not sure, but I don't believe a cause of death was ever released at that time. Sort of feels like the Layla montage in Goodfellas.

yardwork

(68,551 posts)
10. The DC Madam supposedly killed herself too.
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 02:42 PM
10 hrs ago

I always that that was very suspicious. In spring 2008, just as election season got into swing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_Jeane_Palfrey

FakeNoose

(39,444 posts)
7. Chump was nationally known in 2011 from The Apprentice and various TV ads
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 02:21 PM
10 hrs ago

... but he wasn't known as a politician or a political candidate of any kind. Chump and Epstein had already had their falling out over the Florida real estate deal, and they weren't the "party bros" they used to be.

I'm thinking that Epstein was making a general comment about his former friend, rather than any kind of political prediction.

yardwork

(68,551 posts)
13. 2011 is when Trump started talking about running for president.
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 02:44 PM
10 hrs ago

Or thereabouts. Putin was flexing his power and looking for a puppet to take the U.S.

This timing could be quite relevant.

Doodley

(11,510 posts)
9. The one teen at the center of salacious allegations against Trump "committed suicide." How convenient. Sorry, but based
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 02:36 PM
10 hrs ago

on all we have seen, the overt bigotry, the greed, the spitefulness, the constant bragging, the lies, the blaming of others, the sheer hatred, the manipulation, the enthusiasm to make millions suffer, the total lack of empathy---Trump is not a human being, he's has no soul, he has no conscience, he's a monster capable of anything.

FakeNoose

(39,444 posts)
19. "One teen"? There's no way to know until we see the evidence
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 03:51 PM
9 hrs ago

The only thing we can do is scour the Epstein documents and try to find evidence against Chump that might be in there.

Virginia Roberts Giuffre never filed charges against Chump, only against Epstein and Maxwell. (According to Giuffre's own testimony, she was never abused by Chump.) But there are hundreds of women who are potential victims of Epstein, many of whom were underage at the time. Of those victims, how many were also victimized by Chump? We don't know, until the documentary evidence is released.

Several DUers believe that Chump was one of the traffickers along with Epstein and Maxwell. In other words, he recruited girls for his modelling agency and beauty pageants, and it's possible that some were then brought into Epstein's group. They used to promise these girls careers in modelling and acting, etc. and many of them came from poverty and broken homes, so it all sounded good to them.

Was Chump in business with Epstein? We don't know, but we need to find out.

LetMyPeopleVote

(172,486 posts)
20. MaddowBlog-Newly disclosed Jeffrey Epstein emails complicate matters for Donald Trump
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 05:26 PM
7 hrs ago

House Democrats released an email in which Epstein wrote that Trump had “spent hours at my house” with one of Epstein’s victims.

Knowing that Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein were friends is one thing.

Seeing Epstein’s “of course he knew about the girls” email is something else. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-11-12T15:02:29.023Z

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-epstein-emails-house-democrats-release-rcna243426

On Wednesday morning, Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released a package of emails, obtained by the Epstein estate, in which the convicted sex offender wrote, among other things, that Trump had “spent hours” at Epstein’s house with one of Epstein’s victims. In a separate message, Epstein said the future president “knew about the girls.”

In April 2011, for example, as Trump took on a higher political profile, Epstein sent an email to longtime confidante Ghislaine Maxwell that read: “i want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is trump.. (REDACTED) spent hours at my house with him ,, he has never once been mentioned. police chief. etc. im 75 % there.”

A direct email exchange from 2011 between Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, just released by House Oversight Committee Democrats.

Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur.bsky.social) 2025-11-12T13:48:13.125Z


The fact that Trump and the late millionaire pedophile had a relationship is not new. Not only have we all seen the video footage of the two men hanging out, but as my MSNBC colleague James Downie noted, Trump told New York magazine in 2002: “I’ve known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy. He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”.....

There’s also this email, in which Epstein wrote that Trump “of course ... knew about the girls.”




Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia of California, the ranking member on the House Oversight Committee, said in a statement: “The more Donald Trump tries to cover-up the Epstein files, the more we uncover. These latest emails and correspondence raise glaring questions about what else the White House is hiding and the nature of the relationship between Epstein and the President. The Department of Justice must fully release the Epstein files to the public immediately. The Oversight Committee will continue pushing for answers and will not stop until we get justice for the victims.”

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