Epstein Ex-Secretary Says She Set Up Phone Calls Between Trump And Epstein For Year

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Huff Post

Jun 23, 2026, 08:21 PM EDT


Lesley Groff, former executive secretary for convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, told lawmakers that she set up phone calls between her boss and President Donald Trump several times a year for at least a decade, according to a transcript released Tuesday by the House Oversight Committee.

Groff, who was hired by Epstein in 2001, told lawmakers she didn’t remember setting up any in-person meetings between the two men, but said it was possible, adding later that she would describe their relationship as “friendly.”

“I suppose they were friendly,” she said. “I don’t know if they had any business going on. That wasn’t something that I asked. That’s not something I discussed with Mr. Epstein or Mr. Trump, so I don’t really know. It’s possible that they were friendly.”. When asked by lawmakers about reports that Epstein kept a photo of himself with Trump on his desk, Groff said she didn’t recall seeing one.

In her opening statement, Groff testified that she handled scheduling Epstein’s daily massages with dozens of various women, including in New York and the United Kingdom. Survivors of Epstein’s abuse, many of whom were minors, have said they were forced to perform massages on him as a pretext to sexual abuse. Groff’s testimony appears to conflict with Vice President JD Vance’s comments last week on The View. The vice president repeatedly pushed back when the hosts pointed to Trump’s longtime friendship with Epstein.

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[muriel_volestrangler]

1. The important timing being that "at least a decade" after 2001 is after Epstein was convicted

and long after Trump had claimed to have broken contact.

[ECL213]

2. You just know...

There are recordings of every one of those phone calls somewhere. Putin and Netanyahu surely have copies.

[bluestarone]

3. I don't care how long it takes, I

want TSF, and ALL his RAPISTS CULTIST followers in prison or a graveyard!! ALL of them.

[Volaris]

7. Yup. Leon Black is scheduled up on the Hill on friday, we already know what he's gonna say...

I didn't see anything
I didn't hear anything
I didn't DO anything
I don't know anything
I don't remember everything else
I've no idea why my names is those files 50 thousand times, you'd have to ask Jeffrey.
Yes, the Jeffrey I hardly knew and never met.
I don't know about any money that got paid to anyone for anything, that's a question for my (probably dead) former accountant.
Donald who, I don't know any Donald.

[YodaMom2]

9. And don't tell me, let me guess...

Leon Black’s testimony will be behind closed doors and NOT under oath?

[Volaris]

10. Nailed it. Ive half a mind to place bets on how many of these clowns

won't be in the country to issue subpoenas to, come January and a Dem Congress.

Yeah, we want Leon back up here under oath.

Oh, sorry.. he's vacationing for 36 months in a non-extradition country with no internet or cell service, yeah that sucks...

[70sEraVet]

4. I agree with Rep Stephen Lynch:

“It is highly inconsistent what she is maintaining, that she really didn’t know Jeffrey Epstein even though she worked for him for 18 years,” he said. “I just question whether she can rightfully and truthfully maintain that she saw nothing improper.”
(same article)

[FakeNoose]

5. I have no doubt that Groff's lawyer told her what to say, in order to stay out of prison

Otherwise she might end up doing time like Ghislaine Maxwell. Of the two, it's clear that Maxwell is MORE guilty, since she helped recruit the girls/women into the operation. Maxwell may have participated in the sexual exploitation as well, according to at least some of the victims. I don't know that any victims have said that Groff was a recruiter or a participant.

Groff's lawyer is probably telling her to deny everything, and maybe she won't get indicted.

[JT45242]

6. The old "I don't recall" perjury ... obfuscations by Republicans since at least the Nixon adinistratioin

Every "i don't recall, I don't remember; I can't recall," is an admission of the awful truth. If it were a NO, she would have said NO.

So sick of these liars never getting pushed.

With this many lapses i nmemory, should we have you examined for early onset dementia? Should we have you committed because of tramautic brain injuries?

Make them put skin in the game.

[SamuelAdams]

8. Who doesn't set up several calls a year for more than a decade with people you barely know?

[republianmushroom]

11. epstein files Epstein Files EPSTEIN FILES USA ! USA! USA!

Thank you for your attention to this matter!"

[Martin68]

12. Get her in front of Congress to testify.

[sop]

13. Why is it we're only able to find out the truth about things till after all the principals are dead and gone?

And maybe not even then. I guess that's how history is supposed to work..