New emails claim Trump ‘spent hours’ with Epstein victim
Newshour
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🗓️ 12 November 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Emails released by US lawmakers say Donald Trump "spent hours" with a victim of the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The White House has accused Democrats of selectively leaking the emails to push a fake narrative against the President.
Also in the programme: after dozens of Israeli settlers launched arson attacks on Palestinian villages in the occupied West Bank, we'll hear about growing frustration within Israel's military; and the solar storms bringing spectacular light shows to skies around the globe. (Photo: Donald Trump poses alongside Jeffrey Epstein in 1997. Credit: Getty)
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:10.2 | Hello there, welcome to News Out from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:14.0 | It's coming to you live from London with me, Sean Lay. |
| 0:17.8 | Well, we're going to begin this hour in the United States where the White House has hit back |
| 0:23.2 | after Democrats released three emails written by the late Jeffrey Epstein, which mentioned Donald |
| 0:28.5 | Trump. Epstein, who died in prison while serving a sentence for sexually abusing young girls, |
| 0:34.1 | was once on friendly turns with Mr. Trump. One message refers to Trump spending |
| 0:39.0 | hours at Epstein's house with someone described by Democrats as a victim of sex trafficking. |
| 0:44.9 | The White House Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt said the claims were a partisan attempt to smear |
| 0:49.7 | the president. It is not a coincidence that the Democrats leaked these emails to the fake news this morning |
| 0:56.5 | ahead of Republicans reopening the government. |
| 0:59.8 | This is another distraction campaign by the Democrat in the liberal media. |
| 1:03.6 | And it's why I'm being asked questions about Epstein instead of the government reopening |
| 1:07.8 | because of Republicans in President Trump. |
| 1:10.1 | The emails are the latest released by members of the House Oversight Committee. |
| 1:14.6 | Suhah's Subramaniam from Virginia is one of the Democrat committee members involved with that |
| 1:19.9 | release and he denied they were playing politics. |
| 1:23.3 | I've said from the very beginning, I don't care if it's Democrats or Republicans involved in this. |
| 1:27.9 | I don't care how rich or powerful they are. |
| 1:30.4 | I just want to know how this happened, who was involved, who covered it up, and how it can never happen again. |
| 1:35.8 | Well, shortly after the Democrats published their emails, thousands more pages of documents were released, |
| 1:42.0 | this time with the authority of the House Oversight Committee's |
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