Overview
- Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released Epstein emails that reference President Trump, including a 2019 line saying, “of course he knew about the girls.”
- A discharge petition to compel action on unsealing the remaining Epstein files reached the 218-signature threshold and was officially filed, with Rep. Adelita Grijalva providing the decisive signature.
- Mediaite reports that MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell cast the release as potentially career-ending for Trump and raised the possibility of resignation as commentary, not as established fact.
- O’Donnell also claimed Trump sought to have Rep. Lauren Boebert remove her name from the petition, a report that has not been independently verified.
- Republicans were reported to have responded with a large counter-release of documents, and O’Donnell criticized Vice President J.D. Vance’s public silence on the matter after a Hannity interview that did not address the files.