Overview
- Democratic members of the House Oversight Committee released three redacted email excerpts from 2011, 2015 and 2019 in which Jeffrey Epstein wrote that a victim spent hours in his house with Donald Trump and that Trump "knew about the girls."
- The White House rejected the implications, calling the release a selective smear, and said the unnamed victim was the late Virginia Giuffre, who did not accuse Trump of misconduct.
- Committee staff said the excerpts came from roughly 23,000 pages provided by Epstein’s estate, with victims’ identities removed and broader conversational context not publicly available.
- After Rep. Adelita Grijalva was sworn in, a discharge petition reached the 218-signature threshold to force a vote on compelling the Justice Department to release all Epstein-related records, and House leaders said a vote is planned next week.
- Separately, media reports say Ghislaine Maxwell is preparing a request to commute or reduce her 20-year sentence and has met Justice Department officials, a development still under review.