‘Now We Have The Receipts!’ MSNBC’s Jen Psaki Gloats Over Trump-Epstein Bombshell
MSNBC host and former Biden White House press secretary Jen Psaki gloated about revelations in the Jeffrey Epstein email dump implicating President Donald Trump with knowledge about “the girls,” exclaiming, “Now we have the receipts!”
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee dropped a bomb on Wednesday morning with the release of emails that Epstein sent to accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell and author Michael Wolff that directly referenced Trump.
Republicans responded with a dump of tens of thousands more documents and emails, many with explosive revelations.
On Wednesday’s edition of MSNBC’s The Briefing with Jen Psaki, the host ticked through several of the emails with relish, describing them as “more damning than the last”:
JEN PSAKI: That means that the House is now on track to vote on releasing the full Epstein files. And Speaker Mike Johnson also said this afternoon, this evening actually, that the vote could take place next week.
And given the effort Trump has already expended though to keep these files from getting out, given how engaged and otherwise fairly disengaged president seems to be in preventing even the discharge petition from moving forward in the House, begs the question what else is in these files?
Because, for starters, they’re the new emails that call into question this claim.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
REPORTER: With regard to Jeffrey Esptein, did you have any suspicions that he was molesting young women, underaged women?
DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: No, I had no idea.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
PSAKI: Yes, that was — in case you couldn’t hear over the sound there. That was Donald Trump not too long ago, claiming he had no idea that his one-time best friend was a notorious pedophile. No idea at all.
Of course, even back then, his denial was pretty hard to believe. But now we have the receipts. As Epstein said of Trump in 2019, quote, of course he knew about the girls. Of course he knew. That’s just one of the emails in a massive trove of 23,000 documents obtained from the Epstein estate and released today by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee.
And while MSNBC has not independently confirmed the authenticity of those emails or the allegations, several of them suggest that Trump may have known a whole lot more than he let on. Like a whole lot.
For instance, in another email from 2019, Epstein talks about the prior investigation and charges against him before saying, redacted name worked at Mar-a-Lago. Trump knew of it and came to my house many times during that period. The testimony of the house man, John Alessi, confirmed it. He never got a massage.
Now, putting aside whether or not Trump got a massage himself, the suggestion that Trump knew of it certainly raises a whole lot of questions than there’s a 2011 email from Epstein to his coconspirator Ghislaine Maxwell, in which Epstein writes, quote, I want you to realize that the dog that hasn’t barked is Trump, victim’s name is redacted here, spent hours at my house with him. He has never once been mentioned. Ghislaine Maxwell replies, I’ve been thinking about that.
Now, despite it sounding a whole lot like a Sherlock Holmes reference, we don’t know exactly what Trump, being the dog that hasn’t barked means, but it also references a victim spending hours at Epstein’s house with him. And that alone is huge news.
And so are the numerous other emails giving us new insight into Epstein’s thinking about Trump. There’s a 2018 conversation about the hush money paid to Stormy Daniels on Trump’s behalf in which Epstein said, quote, “I know how dirty Donald is.” That’s quite a statement.
Then there’s this meme shared with Epstein by his brother in 2016 with the caption, “Would you trust this man with your daughter?” There’s also an email suggesting that Epstein may have still been in contact with Trump, even after Trump was elected in 2016.
Just a week after that election, Epstein is asked where he is and he replies, “Trump Tower”.
Then there’s some exchanges that, in a trove of very creepy emails, stand out as being particularly creepy and gross, like a 2015 email in which Epstein references, quote, “My 20-year-old girlfriend in ‘93 that after two years I gave to Donald.” Gave — what does “gave” mean?
In that same exchange, he also says, would you like to see photos of Donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen?
Now I should be clear. This is a huge, an enormous trove of emails. And understandably, some are vague, some are kind of cryptic, and many are lacking full context and detail. So, it’s going to take time for committee members and their teams and journalists and people out there to sort through them and make complete sense of all of this.
Of course, Donald Trump has long denied any wrongdoing in connection with Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes, but it has — it has never been more clear, and this was my takeaway from today than it is today. Why Trump may not want these files to be released.
Listen to all the ones I just read you. That’s just a sample of them. And these are also just the latest details we are getting from the Epstein estate, which has already turned over the infamous birthday book, and other records.
Every new revelation in this story seems more damning than the last.
Watch above via MSNBC’s The Briefing with Jen Psaki.
