Trump’s White House communications director Steven Cheung lashed out at a member of Congress for daring to bring up Trump and Epstein’s ties amid the continued release of the late sex offender’s emails.

Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.) appeared on CNN to discuss Epstein’s new emails, which she called “extraordinarily explosive” and said “implicate the president.”

“There’s a discussion in the email that you just cited between Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein about the fact that he ‘had been the dog that didn’t bark,’ and they’re talking specifically about the police,” Stansbury, a member of the House Oversight Committee, said on CNN. Committee Democrats released three new emails Wednesday.

“The question is: What did Donald Trump have on them? Was he involved in these activities?” he added.

U.S. Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.) speaks during the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee meeting on March 25.
U.S. Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.) speaks during the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee meeting on March 25.

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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt has said the victim’s name redacted in the emails was Virginia Giuffre, who maintained before her death that Trump had no part in her abuse.

When CNN anchor Brianna Keilar asked Stansbury about this, the representative said the emails reached House Democrats already redacted, so “we don’t know” if the redacted name is actually Guiffre.

He added: “Second, whether or not Virginia Giuffre has accused the president of wrongdoing, what I would like to say to the American people is to believe what you see.”

On Wednesday, Cheung shared a clip of the two’s exchange with the comment: “DUMMY ALERT: @Rep_Stansbury may be the stupidest member of Congress.”

“Either that or she is a cold liar,” he added. “Either way, she clowned herself on national television, flailing around like a jellyfish (which has no brain!) when confronted with the truth and facts.”

Representatives for Stansbury have not yet responded to a request for comment.

DUMMY ALERT: @Rep_Stansbury may be the stupidest member of Congress. Either that or she’s a cold-hearted liar. Either way, he clowned himself on national television, flailing around like a jellyfish (which has no brain!) when confronted with truth and facts. https://t.co/xLa5gg2g8x

– Steven Cheung (@StevenCheung47) November 13, 2025

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DUMMY ALERT: @Rep_Stansbury may be the stupidest member of Congress. Either that or she’s a cold-hearted liar. Either way, he clowned himself on national television, flailing around like a jellyfish (which has no brain!) when confronted with the truth and facts. https://t.co/xLa5gg2g8x

– Steven Cheung (@StevenCheung47) November 13, 2025

Despite Trump’s friendship and connection to Epstein, some people, like Jon Stewart, have predicted that even if the president is implicated in Epstein’s files, it won’t affect his fan base.

“It could be the photos of him and Epstein’s illegally sex-trafficked women in a forced human caterpillar in Bora Bora, and they would find a way to say, ‘Well, but Hunter Biden’s laptop was worse, and Burisma, and it’s fake, and none of that happened,’” Stewart said on his podcast, released Thursday.