Overview
- Democratic members of the House Oversight Committee released three redacted Epstein email excerpts from 2011, 2015 and 2019 that include the lines "Trump knew of the girls" and that a victim "spent hours in my house" with him.
- The excerpts come from a trove of roughly 23,000 pages held by the committee, and Republican members responded by publishing a large batch of Epstein-related documents of their own.
- The White House rejected the disclosures as selective and politically motivated, pointing to Virginia Giuffre as the unnamed person in one email and noting she did not accuse the president of wrongdoing.
- News reports and the committee’s own materials note that the released emails lack full context and do not constitute proof that the president committed misconduct in the Epstein matter.
- After Rep. Adelita Grijalva was sworn in, a discharge petition reached 218 signatures, and Speaker Mike Johnson scheduled a House vote next week on compelling the Justice Department to release Epstein-related records.