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Trump team scrambles to deal with Epstein files: Live updates
Bombshell release of emails from disgraced financier by House Oversight Committee rocks president as White House insists scandal is ‘fake narrative’ and a ‘Democrat hoax’
www.independent.co.uk
Months after Donald Trump announced his 2016 presidential bid, Jeffrey Epstein offered a journalist private photos “of donald [sic] and girls in bikinis in my kitchen,” bombshell emails from 2015 show.
Epstein made the offer in a December 2015 exchange with a then-New York Times reporter, although it’s unclear whether he really possessed such images or ever passed them on.
The tranche of newly released emails also revealed that Epstein told Ghislaine Maxwell that Trump “spent hours” at his house with one of the disgraced financier’s victims.
Trump did not send or receive any of the emails and has not been accused of any wrongdoing.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said: “These emails prove absolutely nothing other than the fact that President Trump did nothing wrong.”
The emails’ release has renewed pressure on the president to make public all Justice Department files on Epstein.
As the president signed a bill to end the 43-day government shutdown, House Speaker Mike Johnson swore in Arizona Democratic Rep. Adelita Grijalva after a 50-day delay.
She gave the final signature on the discharge petition to compel lawmakers to vote on the release of the Epstein files. The House will vote on it next week, Johnson said.
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