Overview
- House Oversight Democrats released three emails from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate, including a 2011 note to Ghislaine Maxwell saying Trump “spent hours at my house” with a victim and a 2019 message to Michael Wolff stating “of course he knew about the girls.”
- House Republicans countered by publishing roughly 20,000 additional estate documents and accused Democrats of cherry‑picking a handful of messages to craft a misleading narrative.
- A discharge petition reached the 218‑signature threshold after Rep. Adelita Grijalva was sworn in, forcing a House vote next week on a resolution directing the DOJ to publish its unclassified Epstein records, which Speaker Mike Johnson said he will bring to the floor.
- The White House labeled the Democratic release partisan, identified the redacted victim as Virginia Giuffre, and noted she has not accused the president of wrongdoing.
- Legal experts and multiple outlets report the emails do not by themselves establish criminal conduct by the president, and no charges have been filed against him related to Epstein.