Overview
- Lawmakers plan a floor vote on the Epstein Files Transparency Act after a discharge petition secured enough signatures to force action.
- Roughly 20,000–23,000 pages from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate are public, including emails where Epstein claimed Trump “knew about the girls” and that a redacted “victim” spent hours at his house with Trump, assertions that remain uncorroborated.
- Republicans’ broader release identified the redacted “victim” as Virginia Giuffre, who had said she never saw Trump act inappropriately; she died by suicide in April, according to reporting in the released coverage.
- Mark Epstein said the viral 2018 line about “Trump blowing Bubba” was joking and not a reference to Bill Clinton, pushing back on speculation as the phrase drove an online frenzy.
- After initially resisting, Trump urged House Republicans to vote for release and directed DOJ and the FBI to examine Epstein’s ties to Democrats, even as earlier DOJ/FBI reviews reported no predicate for new charges.