By Kaitlan Collins, Annie Grayer, NCS
(NCS) — Democrats on the House Oversight Committee have released photos from Jeffrey Epstein’s property Friday displaying the various highly effective figures within the late intercourse trafficker’s orbit, together with President Donald Trump, former President Bill Clinton, Steve Bannon, Bill Gates, Richard Branson and others.
Many of the boys have been beforehand linked to Epstein, although the photos might shed new gentle on the extent of these relationships.
Taken collectively, the 19 pictures – which the committee mentioned got here from Epstein’s property – reinforce the financier was tied prior to now to all kinds of highly effective and excessive-profile individuals whose ties to him are actually below vital scrutiny.
One picture released Friday reveals what seems to be a bowl of novelty condoms with a caricature of Trump’s face; the bowl has an indication saying, “Trump condom $4.50,” and every condom bears a picture of Trump’s face with the textual content, “I’m HUUUUGE!” Another confirmed Trump with six girls with leis whose faces had been redacted by the committee. Others included Steve Bannon and Epstein taking {a photograph} in a mirror; Bill Clinton with Epstein, Maxwell and one other couple; and tech billionaire Bill Gates with the previous Prince Andrew. Former Harvard President Larry Summers and lawyer Alan Dershowitz additionally appeared in photos from the property.
None of the released pictures depict any sexual misconduct nor are believed to depict underage ladies. It was not instantly clear when or the place they had been taken, or by whom.
The Republican-led committee obtained the photographs from Epstein’s property as a part of its ongoing investigation. The panel has thus far released tens of hundreds of paperwork, emails and communications that it acquired from the Epstein property that proceed to open new traces of investigative inquiry.
On Thursday, attorneys for the property wrote a letter to the committee noting that they may evaluate movies and pictures they’d requested “taken at any property owned, rented, operated, or used by Epstein from January 1, 1990 through August 10, 2019.”
“Like yesterday’s production, it also includes documents that may not be responsive, but that the Estate was unable to confirm whether they were taken at a property owned, rented, operated, or used by Epstein. The Estate has provided minimal redactions to these photographs; the redactions are limited to nudity,” the attorneys wrote.
Rep. Robert Garcia, the highest Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, mentioned in a press release that the most recent manufacturing from the property contained “over 95,000 photos, including images of the wealthy and powerful men who spent time with Jeffrey Epstein” and “thousands of photographs of women and Epstein properties.”
“It is time to end this White House cover-up and bring justice to the survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and his powerful friends,” he mentioned in a press release. “These disturbing photos raise even more questions about Epstein and his relationships with some of the most powerful men in the world. We will not rest until the American people get the truth. The Department of Justice must release all the files, NOW.”
A spokesperson for the committee accused Democrats on the panel of “cherry-picking photos and making targeted redactions to create a false narrative about President Trump.”
“We received over 95,000 photos and Democrats released just a handful. Democrats’ hoax against President Trump has been completely debunked. Nothing in the documents we’ve received shows any wrongdoing. It is shameful Rep. Garcia and Democrats continue to put politics above justice for the survivors,” the spokesperson mentioned.
NCS has reached out to the White House and representatives for Bannon, Clinton, Gates, Allen, Branson, Summers, Dershowitz and Mountbatten-Windsor.
Clinton has by no means been accused by legislation enforcement of any wrongdoing associated to Epstein, and a spokesperson has repeatedly mentioned he minimize ties with Epstein earlier than his arrest on federal prices in 2019 and didn’t find out about his crimes.
A spokesperson for Gates has repeatedly denied that Epstein ever labored for him. Gates has beforehand mentioned he regrets assembly with Epstein, telling NCS’s Anderson Cooper in 2021: “It was a huge mistake to spend time with him, to give him the credibility of being there.”
Trump’s ties to Epstein are well-known. The two had been a part of the identical social circles in Manhattan and Palm Beach. But Trump has not been accused of any felony wrongdoing, and he and his staff have beforehand derided Epstein as a “creep” whom Trump expelled from his membership.
In a latest batch of emails released by the committee, Epstein claimed that Trump “spent hours” with considered one of Epstein’s most outstanding accusers, the late Virginia Giuffre. Epstein additionally wrote in an e-mail that Trump “knew about the girls” – an obvious reference to Trump’s declare that he kicked Epstein out of his Mar-a-Lago membership for poaching younger girls who labored there. In the wake of these emails, Trump and the White House solid the difficulty as a “hoax” with press secretary Karoline Leavitt saying the emails “prove absolutely nothing, other than the fact that President Trump did nothing wrong.”
NCS’s evaluate of hundreds of pages of Epstein’s emails reveals that, over time Epstein repeatedly invoked Trump — typically to supply evaluation of his habits, typically to gossip, and typically merely to place himself as somebody with uncommon perception into the person who had turn into president.
Others who related Epstein have confronted skilled or different penalties for that relationship, though they, too, weren’t accused of any felony wrongdoing.
Summers took go away from educating at Harvard and resigned from his place on the board of OpenAI; he has mentioned he’s “deeply ashamed” of sustaining ties to Epstein and, whereas stepping again from public roles, would work to “rebuild trust and repair relationships with the people closest to me.” Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor relinquished the usage of his royal titles; he has denied any allegations of misconduct.
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