Miami Herald reports:

Donald Trump is mentioned in Jeffrey Epstein’s emails over 1,000 times — the most cited person in the tranche released this week by the House Oversight Committee.

Despite all the questions the emails have raised about his relationship with Epstein, Trump on Friday continued to fan the flames of the scandal. On his social media platform “Truth Social,” Trump directed Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate some of the influential figures named in the emails.

“I will be asking A.G. Pam Bondi, and the Department of Justice, together with our great patriots at the FBI, to investigate Jeffrey Epstein’s involvement and relationship with Bill Clinton, Larry Summers, Reid Hoffman, J.P. Morgan, Chase, and many other people and institutions, to determine what was going on with them, and him,” Trump wrote.

But no one is named more in the Epstein emails than Trump himself, revealing that years after his friendship with Epstein had waned, Trump remained front and center in Epstein’s emails as a figure whom he could use as currency in his conversations with journalists, world leaders, academics and wealthy men.

As Congress debates whether to force the release of DOJ’s files, the Miami Herald has reviewed many of the documents that are part of a trove of communications held by Epstein’s estate. In recent months, Epstein’s calendars have also been released by Democrats on the Oversight Committee and, like his emails, they reveal Epstein’s continued association with influential people in the years after he pleaded guilty in Florida to sex charges involving a minor.

The messages about Trump were among more than 20,000 documents released by the committee Wednesday. They were obtained from Epstein’s estate pursuant to a subpoena — and are separate from “the Epstein files” that members of Congress are trying to pry out of the Department of Justice and the FBI. [Continue reading…]