House Oversight Republicans release final Epstein report, find no evidence implicating Trump

Republicans on the House Oversight Committee released a final report Nov. 10 on their Jeffrey Epstein investigation that blames federal prosecutors and institutions for letting Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell abuse young women for years. The report says the committee found no evidence implicating President Donald Trump but also acknowledges he was not interviewed.

The facts gathered in the 15-month investigation “do not suggest President Trump is implicated in any of Epstein’s crimes,” the committee’s majority staff report states.

The report says every witness asked about Trump either knew nothing of his ties to Epstein or rejected the idea he was involved, and that documents from the Epstein estate, the Department of Justice (DOJ), JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank, and the U.S. Virgin Islands contained nothing implicating him.  It accuses committee Democrats of pursuing an “unfounded witch hunt” that “continued without regard for the interests of survivors.”

But the report itself acknowledges its limits. Trump was not among the 19 witnesses the committee interviewed. Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence, invoked her Fifth Amendment rights, and financier Leon Black failed to appear for a September deposition. The committee said numerous people with relevant information still have not been interviewed. 

The House Oversight Committee’s report also says questions remain about whether the DOJ released all relevant records under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, citing a lawsuit by journalist Katie Phang that accuses the department of improperly withholding documents that referred to Trump. The department’s inspector general is reviewing the release, and former Attorney General Pam Bondi told the committee she believes all required files were released.

Most of the report examines the failures of others. Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., said in a press release that accompanied the report that the government failed survivors for decades. Specifically, the report says Epstein’s crimes after 2005 could have been prevented, faulting the 2007 non-prosecution agreement in South Florida and questioning whether then-federal prosecutors Matthew Menchel and Bruce Reinhart had conflicts of interest. 

It also urges the DOJ to investigate sexual assault allegations by Epstein’s former assistant Sarah Kellen against former Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine and hairstylist Frédéric Fekkai, who both deny them, Fox News reported. 

Regarding Epstein’s death at the Manhattan jail where he was being held in 2019, the committee found staffing failures but did not disprove the official finding of suicide.

Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., the committee’s most senior member from the minority, said the report is “based on an incomplete investigation and zero public hearings,” ABC News reported. Survivors of Epstein’s abuse and relatives of the late victim Virginia Giuffre have stated in numerous media appearances and at a private June 2026 meeting with Comer that leads in the DOJ file should be pursued further. 

A DOJ spokesperson told ABC News, “With all due respect, the Chairman's recommendations have already been addressed. The Attorney General has repeatedly said that the Epstein case is not closed and there is no statute of limitations on human trafficking.”

Democrats, who won the House in the Nov. 3 midterms, plan to revisit the case when the new Congress convenes in January.