Unsealed: Both Trump's and Clinton's Names Appear in New Epstein Court Docs

On Nov. 12, 2025, multiple news outlets reported on documents released by Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives that supposedly showed messages by convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein about U.S. President Donald Trump.

For example, The Associated Press reported Epstein wrote in a 2019 email to a journalist that Trump "knew about the girls," citing the public documents. According to ABC News, Epstein once referred to Trump as the "dog that hasn't barked" and told his former companion Ghislaine Maxwell that an alleged victim had "spent hours at my house with Trump," per the records. 

Snopes is working to analyze the documents for independent verification, as of this writing.

The White House is accusing Democrats of selectively leaking the records "to create a fake narrative to smear President Trump." 

White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt wrote in an email to Snopes, "These stories are nothing more than bad-faith efforts to distract from President Trump's historic accomplishments, and any American with common sense sees right through this hoax and clear distraction from the government opening back up again," referring to the 2025 federal government shutdown.

Over the years, Snopes has covered a number of rumors related to the relationship between Trump and Epstein. Here are 19 of them: