Democrats on a powerful House committee have released new emails they say raise serious questions about US President Donald Trump 's knowledge of paedophile Jeffrey Epstein 's crimes.

In one of three emails released, the disgraced financier told girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell in April 2011 that someone - who the committee described as a victim of Epstein and whose name has been redacted - "spent hours at my house with him".

In another email, to author Michael Wolff in 2019, Epstein claimed Trump "knew about the girls as he asked Ghislaine to stop".

In a third email from 2015, Epstein and Wolff discussed how to respond to questions about Trump as he ran for the Republican presidential candidate nomination.

Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released the thr

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