Photo released from the Epstein files shows Donald Trump with multiple women. Redaction were done by the Democrats on the House Oversight Committee.
Source: Democrats on the House Oversight Committee.
Nearly 100,000 photos obtained by House Democrats from the estate of notorious sex predator Jeffrey Epstein include images of President Donald Trump, former President Bill Clinton, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, film director Woody Allen, and former Trump White House advisor Steve Bannon and others in social settings.
One image among a batch of photos released Friday morning shows Trump standing in the middle of a row of six women, whose faces were covered over by the Democrats before release. Some of the women are wearing Hawaiian leis around their necks.
Trump is shown in another photo standing behind Epstein at what appears to be a social event. A third photo shows Trump sitting next to a woman, whose face is blacked out, on what appears to be a plane.
Trump was a longtime friend of Epstein before the two men had a falling out sometime in the early 2000s.
Clinton is shown in one photo standing with Epstein, his now-convicted procurer Ghislaine Maxwell, and another man and woman. The photo has Clinton's signature on it.
Other photos show former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, Britain's Prince Andrew and Epstein's one-time lawyer Alan Dershowitz.
"This latest production contains over 95,000 photos, including images of the wealthy and powerful men who spent time with Jeffrey Epstein," a statement from Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee said.
"Images also include thousands of photographs of women and Epstein properties," the statement said. "Committee Democrats are reviewing the full set of photos and will continue to release photos to the public in the days and weeks ahead. Committee Democrats are committed to protecting the identities of the survivors."
Rep. Robert Garcia of California, the ranking Democrat on the committee, in a statement said, "It is time to end this White House cover-up and bring justice to the survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and his powerful friends."
"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."
Trump and top law enforcement officials in his administration for months resisted the idea of releasing investigative files related to Epstein and Maxwell before Congress in November overwhelming passed a law mandating their release by the Department of Justice.
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Those files, which are separate from the ones released by the Democrats on Friday, have yet to be made publicly available.
Epstein died from a jailhouse suicide in August 2019, weeks after he was arrested on child sex trafficking charges filed by the DOJ during Trump's first term in office.
Maxwell is serving a 20-year federal prison sentence for her 2021 conviction of crimes related to procuring underage girls to be sexually abused by Epstein.
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