House Democrats on the Oversight Committee released a handful of Jeffrey Epstein’s emails that raised new questions about the relationship between the convicted sex offender and President Donald Trump. Republican committee members accused Democrats of cherry-picking emails that would “generate clickbait,” and then released an additional 20,000 documents. Seemingly in response to the email dump, President Trump posted on Truth Social that “the Democrats are using the Jeffrey Epstein hoax to try and deflect from their massive failures, in particular, their most recent one — the shutdown!” On the same day, a discharge petition secured enough signatures to force a House vote on a bill that would compel the Trump administration to release all files related to Epstein. Trump has denied any wrongdoing in connection with the late sex offender. On “Forbes True Crime,” Barry Levine, author of “The Spider: Inside the Criminal Web of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell,” reacted to the newly-released emails.
Watch the full interview above.