Democrats release new photos from the Epstein files showing Donald Trump surrounded by women

Donald Trump, former president Bill Clinton, billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates, former strategist to the current president Stephen Bannon, and filmmaker Woody Allen. These are some of the public figures who appear in a new series of photographs handed over by Jeffrey Epstein’s heirs, published Friday by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee, ahead of the Justice Department’s legally mandated release of the complete files on the disgraced financier before the end of next week.

None of the 19 images, which do not indicate the date they were taken, show anything illegal or reveal any previously unknown connections, but they do provide details about Epstein’s lifestyle — several show sexual objects — and the breadth of the circle of rich and powerful people among whom the millionaire pedophile moved.

Among the photos released is one showing Trump surrounded by six women, whose faces have been obscured, at what appears to be a Hawaiian-themed party: they are wearing leis, the flower garlands typical of the archipelago. In another, there are envelopes of condoms for sale for $4.50 bearing the face of the U.S. president and the slogan “I am huuuge.”

In another image, Trump, then a real estate developer who was friends with the financier, is seen sitting with a blonde woman whose face has also been hidden. Another photograph shows the current president at another party talking to a woman, with Epstein behind him.

The 19 photographs are part of the nearly 95,000 documents that the Oversight and Reform Committee has received from Epstein’s archives as part of its investigation into the pedophile ring organized by the financier and his connections.

Another image, bearing Bill Clinton’s signature in gold, shows the former Democratic president smiling and surrounded by Epstein, his fixer Ghislaine Maxwell, and another couple. Another photograph shows Epstein and Bill Gates sitting at a table drinking what appears to be coffee or tea, watched by a woman with her face hidden.

Woody Allen is seen in three photographs: in one, alongside Epstein, he appears to be working. In another, he appears inside a private jet alongside Larry Summers, treasury secretary during the Clinton administration. In the third, he is alongside the ultra-conservative ideologue Bannon.

“It is time to end this White House cover-up and bring justice to the survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and his powerful friends,” said the highest-ranking Democrat on the committee, Congressman Robert Garcia, in a statement. “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 law passed by Congress last month by an overwhelming majority — only one representative voted against it — and signed by Trump requires the Justice Department to release, by December 19, the files of the late financier, who took his own life in prison in 2019 while awaiting trial.

The U.S. president had a 15-year friendship with the millionaire pedophile, which lasted until around 2004, when they stopped seeing each other. The first child abuse case against the financier was brought in 2006.

There is no evidence implicating Trump in Epstein’s crimes, but the shadow of those excesses has haunted him since the pedophile’s suicide. Last May, that shadow grew darker when Attorney General Pam Bondi notified him that his name appeared “everywhere” in those documents.

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