Overview
- Three emails from 2011–2019 published by House Oversight Democrats include Epstein writing that Donald Trump spent “hours” at his home with a woman he described as a victim and that Trump “knew about the girls.”
- Republicans and Axios say the unnamed woman is Virginia Giuffre, whose memoir did not allege sexual misconduct by Trump; Giuffre died in April 2025.
- The White House calls the disclosures a selective political smear, noting Trump denies wrongdoing, says he severed ties with Epstein years ago, and claims he barred him from Mar-a-Lago.
- Democrats say they have secured the signatures needed to force a vote to declassify remaining Epstein files, and House leaders signaled the measure will reach the floor next week.
- House Republicans separately released about 23,000 pages from the Epstein archive, including a 2019 note Epstein sent to himself asserting Trump “knew everything,” visited often, and “never received a massage.”