Overview
- Attorney General Pam Bondi assigned Manhattan U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton to examine Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to Bill Clinton, Larry Summers, Reid Hoffman and JPMorgan after public requests from President Trump.
- Trump denied knowing about a newly released Epstein email that said he “knew about the girls” and said he was within his rights to seek investigations as president.
- House leaders plan a vote next week on the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which would require DOJ disclosures but still needs Senate passage and the president’s signature, and DOJ could withhold materials tied to victims or an active investigation.
- A July DOJ and FBI memo had said investigators found no predicate to open cases against uncharged third parties, making the new review a departure from that assessment.
- The White House called the Democratic document release a selective leak, and a viral claim that it said Epstein meant a different Donald Trump was debunked as satire.