Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein said Donald Trump "knew about the girls," according to emails released on Wednesday by Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives.

The Democrats on the oversight committee of the House of Representatives cited exchanges between Epstein and author Michael Wolff and Ghislaine Maxwell, a British socialite and Epstein's former girlfriend, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence on charges including sex trafficking of a minor.

In an email to Maxwell in 2011, Epstein is said to have to written that an unidentified person "spent hours at my house with" Trump and that " he has never once been mentioned."

It's not clear if Epstein is referring to media coverage or what the reference to "mentioned" entails.

Trump knew Epstein socially in the 1990s an

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