Overview
- House Democrats released three redacted email excerpts from 2011, 2015 and 2019 in which Jeffrey Epstein names Donald Trump, writes that he "knew of the girls" and says a redacted victim spent hours with Trump at Epstein’s home, with messages addressed to Ghislaine Maxwell and author Michael Wolff.
- The White House rejected the disclosures as a partisan smear, asserted the unnamed woman was Virginia Giuffre who did not allege misconduct by Trump, and the president continued to deny any wrongdoing.
- With Democrat Adelita Grijalva sworn in, a discharge petition to compel broader disclosure reached the 218-signature threshold, and Speaker Mike Johnson said the House plans a vote next week.
- Multiple reports said Trump convened a Situation Room meeting and increased pressure on Republican holdouts as several GOP members, including Thomas Massie, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Nancy Mace and Lauren Boebert, backed the petition; Republicans also released tens of thousands of pages from Epstein’s files.
- Reports indicate Ghislaine Maxwell plans to seek clemency from Trump and may weigh testifying, while much of the Epstein archive remains sealed or redacted and no independent finding has established that Trump knew of or took part in Epstein’s crimes.