General Discussion

And I believe Guiffre over Epstein. Despite the politically inconvenient aspect of it, she stated categorically and repeatedly (and under oath), that she never saw Trump at an Epstein property in a deposition for her defamation suit against Maxwell.

People should remember that this exchange was one month after a very well-publicized 2011 (UK) Mail on Sunday article dropped in which Guiffre said the following:

As I say she later testified all of that was either hearsay on her part, or inaccurate/taken out of context by the reporter who wrote the article.

No question Epstein was highly aware of this article, so that explains the timing of this particular email. I would imagine that he was also reading articles ABOUT that article, some of which turned and hyped what VG had actually said to fairly absurd lengths (click-bait stuff), esp. in regards to DJT. One of them he read may have said Guiffre explicitly said she spent time with Trump and Epstein together at Epstein's property, as that quote could be interpreted that way.

One should also consider the fact that Giuffre essentially lived at Epstein's estates, and it is therefore logical to suspect that jet-setters Epstein and Maxwell were not present when VG was at their property at all times she was. This could have led to Epstein reading what Guiffre was quoted as saying the way he did because he did not, in fact, KNOW who all Guiffre may have encountered at his properties when he was not actually there?

IOW that description of her spending time with Trump may have been his interpretation of Guiffre's own words (which had NOT been retracted within one month of it's publishing), rather than a factual assertion based on his own personal knowledge. This is why the surrounding context of this discussion is extremely important, but we don't seem to actually have that available (that I've seen).