White House Denounces 'Democrat Fabrication' as More Jeffrey Epstein Photos Disclosed
Democratic lawmakers have made public a new tranche of what they described as "troubling" pictures from the estate of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, featuring among others Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, and former British royal Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.
The opening batch of 19 photographs—some of which have been seen before—along with another 70 released later on Friday constitute a small number of the nearly 100,000 images handed over to the House oversight committee, which is probing the conduct and connections of Epstein.
The fallen money manager was a victim of an apparent self-inflicted death in a New York detention cell in 2019 after being accused of sex-trafficking charges.
High-Profile Individuals in the Photos
Included in the prominent personalities shown in the first release are well-known figures such as film director Woody Allen; Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates; and Richard Branson, creator of the Virgin conglomerate.
Donald Trump appears in three of the first nineteen images. In one, he is seen with six women, whose faces are blacked out.
White House Statement
The White House reacted to the release in a official comment, accusing Democrats of purposefully "cherry-picking" the images for electoral motives and to "attempt to fabricate a false storyline."
"That partisan falsehood against President Trump has been time and again refuted," an administration official stated, maintaining that "the Trump administration has done more for Epstein's victims than Democrats ever have by frequently urging transparency, disclosing thousands of pages of records, and calling for further investigations into Epstein's Democrat friends."
Panel Member Comment
The photographs were published without context, but per a Democratic representative from California and ranking member of the investigative panel, they elicit additional doubts about Epstein's associations with affluent people.
"The moment has come to halt this White House concealment and secure justice to the victims of Jeffrey Epstein and his well-connected allies," he said in a comment.
The disclosure of these images coincides with the oversight committee pressing on with its inquiry into the affair.