Explosive new emails released by House Democrats suggest Jeffrey Epstein claimed he could give the Kremlin “insight into Donald Trump” — even offering to connect with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov through former Norwegian PM Thorbjørn Jagland. The 2018 messages, revealed by Politico, include Epstein’s claim that Russia’s late UN ambassador “understood Trump” after their talks. After the leak, President Trump dismissed the revelations as a “total hoax” by Democrats. The White House said the emails “prove nothing other than that President Trump did nothing wrong.” Here’s what the emails reveal — and what they don’t.

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