Convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein repeatedly bragged in private emails that Donald Trump was a frequent guest at his lavish New York townhouse, even spending “hours” alone with one of his underage victims – but the late predator insisted Trump “never participated” in any wrongdoing and even told accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell to “stop” bringing girls around.

The explosive messages, unearthed from Epstein’s personal accounts and dumped Wednesday by the House Oversight Committee, have rocked Washington just days after Trump’s second inauguration, reigniting the decades-old scandal tying the president to America’s most notorious child predator.

In one 2011 email to Maxwell – who is serving 20 years for recruiting and grooming Epstein’s victims – the financier crowed: “I want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is trump… [redacted victim] spent hours at my house with him ,, he has never once been mentioned.”

Democrats on the committee quickly highlighted the message, redacting the victim’s name. But Republicans fired back hours later, dumping over 20,000 additional pages and revealing the mystery girl was Virginia Giuffre – the most famous Epstein accuser, who died by suicide earlier this year.

Giuffre, in multiple sworn depositions and her posthumously published memoir, repeatedly cleared Trump: “I never saw or witnessed Donald Trump participate in those acts,” she testified in 2016. “I don’t think Donald Trump participated in anything.” She even described the president as “friendly” during their limited interactions when she worked at Mar-a-Lago as a teen.

Another bombshell email from 2019 has Epstein telling journalist Michael Wolff: Trump “knew about the girls as he asked Ghislaine to stop.” Epstein added that Trump banned him from Mar-a-Lago, writing, “never a member ever.”

The White House blasted Democrats for “cherry-picking” three emails to smear the president, with press secretary Karoline Leavitt pointing to Giuffre’s own words exonerating Trump. “Virginia Giuffre said over and over that President Trump did nothing wrong,” Leavitt told reporters Thursday.

Trump himself raged on Truth Social, calling the leaks a “Desperate Democrat HOAX” and vowing his Justice Department would “get to the bottom of the real Epstein criminals – starting with Bill Clinton,” who Epstein claimed in other emails “NEVER” visited his infamous island despite flight logs showing 26 trips.

The emails paint a picture of two Palm Beach playboys who partied together in the ’90s and early 2000s before a bitter fallout. Photos from the era show them grinning at parties with young women, and Trump once called Epstein a “terrific guy” who liked them “on the younger side.”

But sources close to the president insist the relationship soured when Trump caught Epstein poaching spa girls from Mar-a-Lago. “He threw him out and banned him for life,” one former club insider said.

Epstein, arrested in 2019 on federal sex-trafficking charges, died in a Manhattan jail cell weeks later in what officials ruled a suicide – though conspiracy theories still swirl.

The new documents include thousands of mundane messages about finance and travel, but Trump appears more than any other figure – over 1,000 mentions, according to committee staff.

Legal experts say nothing in the emails rises to criminal allegations against the president. “Epstein was a liar and a manipulator,” said Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, who represented Epstein and has denied wrongdoing himself. “Taking his word on anything is foolish.”

Still, the timing couldn’t be worse for Trump, who campaigned on releasing “the full Epstein files” to expose the elite pedophile ring. His AG Pam Bondi promised the infamous “client list” was on her desk – only to later admit no such list exists.

MAGA influencers are split. Some call the emails “total exoneration,” with podcaster Jon Herold declaring them “nothingburgers.” Others, like Nick Fuentes, fumed that Trump is “protecting the swamp” by slow-walking remaining files.

On the left, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) demanded more releases: “The American people deserve to know exactly how deep these connections went.”

Victims’ advocates are furious either way. “This isn’t about politics – it’s about justice,” said one survivor who spoke anonymously. “Giuffre cleared Trump, but Epstein bragged about dozens of powerful men. Where are their names?”

As bidding wars erupt online for Epstein’s old belongings – including massage tables from his island – the scandal shows no sign of dying.

Trump, meanwhile, shrugged it off at a Mar-a-Lago event Thursday night: “Everybody knew Jeffrey back then. I kicked him out when I found out what a creep he was. End of story.”

But with thousands more pages still sealed at the DOJ, this story is far from over.

One thing’s certain: Two decades after their Palm Beach heyday, Jeffrey Epstein is still haunting Donald Trump from beyond the grave – and the president is hitting back harder than ever.