A disturbing email released Wednesday as part of the House Oversight Committee’s 20,000-page document dump revealed a friendly relationship between Jeffrey Epstein and Tom Barrack, a private equity investor who currently serves as the US ambassador to Turkey.

House committee Republicans released files related to Epstein after committee Democrats released a handful of damning emails between the late sex offender and journalist Michael Wolff earlier that day.

In the emails, Epstein claims that President Donald Trump not only knew about the parade of young and underage girls he sexually exploited, but that he once spent “hours” with one of them.

The newly released trove of documents contains many emails between Epstein and various contacts, such as economist Larry Summers.

In March 2016, Epstein emailed Barrack: “send pictures of you and your son. Make me smile.”

It is not clear from the document which child Epstein was referring to.

A 2016 email exchange between sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and Tom Barrack, who is now the US ambassador to Türkiye.
A 2016 email exchange between sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and Tom Barrack, who is now the US ambassador to Türkiye.

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The message came after Epstein told Barrack that he was receiving “a lot of calls” about his friendship with Trump, to which Epstein said he was not responding, and after Barrack suggested that he and Epstein should “catch up.”

The State Department did not immediately respond to News themezone’s request for comment.

Barrack was confirmed as US ambassador to Türkiye in April.

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By 2016, Epstein’s sexual misconduct was already well known. He served about a year in prison in Florida after being accused of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl whom he had hired as a “masseuse” and paid her in cash. It is unclear how Epstein continued to abuse young women and underage girls for so long, although the documents released Wednesday help illustrate the vast network of wealthy or influential acquaintances he could draw on.

Trump reacted to the release of the files by fuming at Republicans on the House panel.

“Democrats are trying to bring up the Jeffrey Epstein hoax again because they will do anything to deflect how badly they have done with the shutdown and so many other issues,” Trump wrote in Truth Social. “Only a very bad or stupid Republican would fall into that trap.”