Overview
- Democratic members of House Oversight published roughly 20,000 pages from Epstein’s estate and three emails, including lines stating “of course he knew about the girls” and that an unnamed victim “spent hours in my house with him.”
- After Rep. Adelita Grijalva was sworn in, a bipartisan discharge petition reached 218 signatures, triggering a floor vote next week on compelling the Justice Department to release remaining Epstein files.
- Reports say Trump and senior aides pressed Republican signers to retreat, including a Situation Room meeting with Lauren Boebert and calls to Nancy Mace, as the White House dismissed the releases as selective and defamatory.
- Trump publicly urged the DOJ and FBI to investigate Bill Clinton and other figures such as Larry Summers, Reid Hoffman and JPMorgan, denouncing the push for disclosures as a partisan “hoax.”
- Emails also show Epstein offering, via Europarat figure Thorbjørn Jagland, to provide insights about Trump to Russian officials including Sergei Lavrov, though whether contacts occurred is unclear and any full release still faces Senate hurdles and a potential veto.