US lawmakers have released more than 20,000 pages of documents from the estate of the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, including some that mention President Donald Trump. Early on Wednesday, Democrats on the House Oversight Committee published three email exchanges, including correspondence between Epstein, who died in 2019 in prison, and his long-time associate Ghislaine Maxwell, who is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex trafficking. They also released emails between Epstein and the author Michael Wolff, who has written numerous books about Trump. Within hours, House Republicans then released a massive tranche of documents to counter what they said was a Democratic effort to 'cherry-pick' documents. They also said it was an attempt to 'create a fake narrative to slander President Trump'. Trump was a friend of Epstein's for years, but the president has said they fell out in the early 2000s, two years before Epstein was first arrested. Trump has consistently denied any wrongdoing in relation to Epstein. The first email released by Democrats is from 2011 and is between Epstein and Maxwell. In it, Epstein writes to Maxwell: 'I want you to realize that that dog that hasn't barked is Trump.. [VICTIM] spent hours at my house with him'. Epstein goes on to write that Trump 'has never once been mentioned', including by a 'police chief'. The White House said it refers to the late Virginia Giuffre, a prominent Epstein accuser who died by suicide earlier this year. In a statement, the White House said Giuffre 'repeatedly said President Trump was not involved in any wrongdoing whatsoever and couldn't have been friendlier' to her in their limited interactions. The latest emails have ignited a debate, with the White House accusing Democrats of selectively leaking information to create a false narrative and distract from Trump's presidency.