House Democrats release Epstein Estate photos showing Trump, Clinton, Gates, other figures

House Democrats on the Oversight Committee released a small batch of photographs from the estate of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on Dec. 12, unveiling images of prominent political, business, and cultural figures in social settings with Epstein.

President Donald Trump, former President Bill Clinton, Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, and others are pictured alongside Epstein.

In a social media post, the committee’s Democratic account said it received more than 95,000 photos from Epstein’s estate. The release merely shared 19.

“These disturbing images raise even more questions about Epstein and his relationships with some of the most powerful men in the world,” the committee Democrats wrote on X. “Time to end this White House cover-up. Release the files!”

Trump appears in three images, including a partially redacted one showing him with a blonde woman, another image showing Trump and Epstein speaking with a woman, and a third depicting Trump surrounded by six women with obscured faces wearing leis.

Trump has acknowledged that he knew Epstein socially in the 1990s and early 2000s and that the two were photographed together, but he has said they were not close and later cut ties, CBS News reported. The recently released photos were published without context.

Clinton is featured in a signed photograph smiling alongside Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year federal prison sentence for her role in Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation. The image also includes an unidentified couple.

CBS News reported that Angel Ureña, a spokesperson for Clinton, said in 2019, following Epstein’s federal indictment, that the former president flew on Epstein’s plane four times in 2002 and 2003 during trips to Europe, Asia, and Africa. Ureña said the travel was connected to Clinton Foundation work and staff, foundation supporters, and Clinton’s Secret Service detail accompanied him on every leg of each trip, according to the outlet.

Bannon appears in three photos: conversing with Epstein at a desk, posing for a mirror selfie with him, and speaking with filmmaker Woody Allen. 

Additional images include Gates pictured with former Prince Andrew, attorney Alan Dershowitz, entrepreneur Richard Branson, and firm director Woody Allen in various settings. In one photo, Allen is seen alongside former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers aboard a private plane that the New York Post reported was “likely Epstein’s notorious ‘Lolita Express.’”

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The White House responded to the release by noting that the images show no evidence of criminal activity. 

White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson accused Democrats of “selectively releasing cherry-picked photos with random redactions to try and create a false narrative,” FOX News reported.

She also accused House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., and Del. Stacey Plaskett, the Democratic delegate for the U.S. Virgin Islands, of maintaining ties with Epstein after his sex trafficking charges. As CatholicVote reported in November, a recent release of Epstein emails showed Plaskett texting Epstein during a congressional hearing to obtain information about the panel’s witness, Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen.

Jackson said allegations involving Trump, on the other hand, have been “repeatedly debunked” and argued that the Trump administration has taken stronger steps than Democrats have to promote transparency and accountability for Epstein’s crimes. 

“It's time for the media to stop regurgitating Democrat talking points,” she said, according to FOX, “and start asking Democrats why they wanted to hang around Epstein after he was convicted.”

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