Overview
- House Oversight Democrats disclosed emails from 2011, 2015 and 2019 in which Jeffrey Epstein wrote that Donald Trump "knew about the girls" and that a victim "spent hours" at Epstein’s home with him.
- Republican committee members later posted about 23,000 pages from the Epstein estate and shared unredacted emails naming the victim as Virginia Giuffre, who had previously said Trump did not abuse her.
- The White House called the disclosures a politically motivated smear, citing Giuffre’s statements and Trump’s past claim that he banned Epstein from Mar-a-Lago.
- Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed a Situation Room meeting with Rep. Lauren Boebert as officials sought to persuade some Republicans to withdraw support for a bill and petition to force release of unclassified DOJ files.
- The document fight intensified as newly sworn-in Rep. Adelita Grijalva was expected to sign the petition, putting it close to the 218 signatures required to force a vote.