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By law, the Trump administration has to release all the Epstein files. Except for the ones it doesn't like, of course. However, there is a small problem. Other parties also have some relevant material—in particular, Jeffrey Epstein's estate. The estate has just released to the House Oversight Committee 95,000 photos to leer at. Epstein was apparently a big fan of the photographic arts. Democrats on the Committee are busy curating them, but have released 19 of them. The website NOTUS posted them here for your viewing pleasure. Here are three of them.
The top one above gives lie to any attempt by Trump to claim he and Epstein were just (business) friends and that he didn't know anything about the girls. The woman in the second one hasn't been identified yet but is probably not a victim or she would have been censored. The third one is interesting because in the sketch, Trump looks really grumpy. Why?
The other ones show a number of famous men who had contact with Epstein. They include Woody Allen, Steve Bannon, Richard Branson, Bill Clinton, Alan Dershowitz, Bill Gates, Larry Summers, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and others. Epstein sure had a lot of famous friends. When the photos were released, Bill Gates said he was embarrassed to be in the collection, but he once had dinner with Epstein to try to get him to donate to Gates' projects to provide health care in Africa. Gates has been in the public eye for decades and this is his first mini-scandal, so he may well having been telling the truth. About the others, we're not so sure.
If more photos showing Trump with girls emerge, it is not going to be easy to keep calling this a hoax. A new Reuters-Ipsos poll shows that 70% of respondents (including 62% of Republicans) think the government is hiding stuff from the public. Although Democrats are likely to run in 2026 on affordability, a secondary theme in some affluent districts could be: "Trump is insanely corrupt and hiding his bad behavior from the country." In the same poll, 60% thought Trump knew about Epstein's crimes and only 18% thought he didn't know. (V)