Overview
- Speaker Mike Johnson accelerated a vote next week on a bipartisan Massie–Khanna bill to compel the Justice Department to release Epstein records, anticipating significant Republican defections.
- House Republicans published nearly 23,000 pages from Epstein’s estate, and a CNN review found Trump was a frequent subject as Epstein privately labeled him “bad,” “crazy” and “dangerous.”
- One 2011 email asserts Trump “passed hours” with a trafficking victim later identified by House Republicans as Virginia Giuffre, who never publicly accused Trump of wrongdoing.
- After denouncing the disclosures as partisan, Trump said he would seek federal inquiries into Epstein’s ties to Bill Clinton and others, and Attorney General Pam Bondi directed SDNY U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton to investigate.
- The White House said the emails “do not prove anything” and repeated that Trump expelled Epstein from Mar-a-Lago, while a July FBI memo stated it found no evidence to justify probes of unaccused third parties.