House Democrats on the Oversight Committee stirred things up on Friday, 12th December by sharing a bunch of photos from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate, with a spotlight on shots of Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, and ex-Prince Andrew. This was the second batch of images released after the first batch showed Epstein with several high-profile figures.
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They started with 19 pictures out of over 95,000 they got from Epstein’s stuff after he died in a New York jail in the year 2019 while waiting for his sex trafficking trial. Later that day, they put out about 70 more, showing Epstein’s home, him in a bath, one with a swollen lip, and him posing with a book on the scandal.
These photos came out without any captions or explanations, and one black-and-white image showed Trump standing next to six women whose faces had been blacked out. Trump was seen in three photos, and one of them showed him sitting next to a woman with a redacted face. Another photo showed Trump standing next to Epstein while talking to model Ingrid Seynhaeve at a 1997 Victoria’s Secret party in New York, however, this photo was already in the public domain.
Rep. Robert Garcia, the top Democrat on the committee, didn’t say if any of those women were abuse victims, but he stressed, “From day one, we’ve redacted any photo or info that could hurt victims.”
The White House’s Abigail Jackson fired back, alleging that Democrats are “selectively releasing cherry-picked photos with random redactions to create a false narrative”, basically a “Democrat hoax against President Trump.” A lot of these pics have floated around publicly before.
A photo showed red packets with Trump’s illustration on them with the text ‘I’m HUUUUGE!’. A board next to it says ‘Trump condom $4.50 finally’.
The files also included private images of Epstein, including one of him in a bathtub and another that appears to show sexual toys. While the files included a photo with Prince Andrew and Bill Gates, it is actually cropped from a publicly available photo from an event in London that also included King Charles. This photo was taken by a Getty Images photographer in 2018.
Therefore, several photographs from public events have been included in the drop just because Epstein was also present at those events.
This drop is separate from the big Epstein case files the Department of Justice has to release soon, with the Trump administration facing a deadline next week. People are buzzing with conspiracy theories and old rumours about those files. Democrats are pushing hard to pressure Trump over his team’s past refusal to hand over Epstein probe documents.
Garcia said they’ve only gone through about a quarter of the images from Epstein’s estate, stuff he had or got sent to him, and they’ll keep releasing more in the coming days and weeks.
Trump used to be tight with Epstein, but says he cut ties way before the sex trafficking charges hit. Republicans on the committee say nothing in what they’ve seen points to any wrongdoing by Trump. Garcia, though, ramped it up: “Donald Trump right now needs to release the files to the American public so the truth can come out and we can get some justice for the survivors.”
Meanwhile, Republicans want Bill and Hillary Clinton to testify in their probe. Clinton admits he flew on Epstein’s jet but says he knew nothing about the crimes, and no known victims have accused him.
The photos also showed people like Steve Bannon, billionaire Richard Branson and Bill Gates, filmmaker Woody Allen, ex-Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, and law prof Alan Dershowitz. All of them deny any wrongdoing from hanging out with Epstein. Summers stepped back from teaching at Harvard after some Epstein emails came out earlier, hurting his reputation in academic circles.
Allen has long denied claims from his adopted daughter, Dylan Farrow, that he molested her as a child. Prince Andrew lost his royal titles this year over fresh Epstein links, but he denies doing anything wrong.
Some lawmakers think the full Justice Department files could drag in more big names tied to Epstein’s abuse. Rep. Thomas Massie, a Kentucky Republican who pushed a bill to force the files out, called it a good step that the DOJ got a judge to unseal 2019 grand jury stuff from Epstein’s sex trafficking case.
But he added, “The grand jury material is just a small fraction of what the DOJ needs to release, because the FBI and DOJ probably have evidence they chose not to take to the grand jury stuff that would implicate other people, not Epstein or Maxwell.”
