New York: Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein told his close associate Ghislaine Maxwell that Donald Trump “spent hours at my house” with one of his victims, and told a journalist that Trump “knew about the girls”, according to new documents released by Democrats in the US Congress.

The US president, who was friends with Epstein in the 1990s but says the pair fell out in the 2000s, has always emphatically denied knowledge of Epstein and Maxwell’s sex-trafficking operations.

The three emails released on Wednesday morning, US time, were selected by Democrats from a tranche supplied by Epstein’s estate to the House Oversight Committee under subpoena. All three are from after Epstein was convicted of soliciting prostitution and soliciting prostitution from a minor in 2008 under a plea de

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