Overview

• Trump acknowledged on July 29 that Virginia Giuffre and several female spa employees were “stolen” by Jeffrey Epstein, offering the most detailed public account of their fallout.
• He recounted barring Epstein from Mar-a-Lago in 2004 after repeated poaching of his staff and confronting reporters about the incidents aboard Air Force One.
• Ghislaine Maxwell has given immunity-protected testimony to the Justice Department this month and is slated to appear before the House Oversight Committee on August 11 without immunity.
• The Justice Department filed motions in July to unseal grand jury transcripts and other sealed records, joining bipartisan congressional efforts for greater transparency.
• Frustration in Trump’s base over withheld documents and conspiracy theories about the deaths of Giuffre and Epstein has intensified demands for the release of all investigation files.