Trump mentioned in Jeffrey Epstein emails

Notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein said of President Donald Trump, “I know how dirty donald is,” in a 2018 email thread about Trump’s former personal lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen having pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations and agreed to cooperate in a federal investigation of the president.

Epstein made that remark about Trump to Kathryn Ruemmler, a lawyer who served as White House counsel under former President Barack Obama. Ruemmler is currently chief legal officer and general counsel at Goldman Sachs.

The email thread, which CNBC has not independently verified, is among more than 20,000 documents obtained from Epstein’s estate through a subpoena by Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which released them Wednesday.

Ruemmler on Aug. 23, 2018, emailed Epstein a link to a New York Times op-ed by Bret Stephens, which had the headline, “Donald Trump’s High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The principled case for impeachment is clear. What’s missing is the courage.”

The article detailed Cohen’s guilty plea and its implications for Trump, who was then in his first term in the White House. Cohen had pleaded guilty to crimes related to making and facilitating hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal before the 2016 presidential election.

“I thought you’d find interesting,” Ruemmler wrote to Epstein, who had been friends with Trump for years before they had a falling-out in the early 2000s.

She wrote in the same thread, “It makes no difference whether it was his money. Issue is failure to disclose. Plus, fact that he lied his ass off about it makes it clear that he knew it was illegal.”

Epstein replied, “You see, I know how dirty donald is.”

“My guess is that non lawyers ny biz people have no idea. what it means to have your fixer flip,” Epstein added.

In a text message chain with an unidentified person in December 2018, that person wrote to Epstein, “It will all blow over! They’re really just trying to take down Trump and doing whatever they can do to do that …!”

Epstein replied: “yes thx. its wild. because I am the one able to take him down.”

The thread did not reveal what the other person was referring to when they wrote that “it” will “blow over.”

In an April 2019 email released by House Democrats, Epstein wrote to author Michael Wolff that Trump “knew about the girls,” according to a copy of that message purportedly between the two men.

It is unclear what the phrase “knew about the girls” meant.

In another newly released email that Epstein wrote to his now-convicted accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell in April 2011, Epstein wrote, “I want you to realize that the dog that hasn’t barked is trump.”

Epstein added in that same email that a person whose name was redacted in the email but whom the Democrats identified as a victim of his “spent hours at my house with” Trump.

“He has never once been mentioned,” Epstein added in that message.

It is not clear what Epstein was referring to in the email…