Donald Trump, former president Bill Clinton, billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates, former strategist to the present president Stephen Bannon, and filmmaker Woody Allen. These are among the public figures who seem in a brand new collection of pictures handed over by Jeffrey Epstein’s heirs, printed Friday by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee, forward of the Justice Department’s legally mandated launch of the entire recordsdata on the disgraced financier earlier than the tip of subsequent week.
None of the 19 photos, which don’t point out the date they had been taken, present something unlawful or reveal any beforehand unknown connections, however they do present particulars about Epstein’s way of life — a number of present sexual objects — and the breadth of the circle of wealthy and highly effective individuals amongst whom the millionaire pedophile moved.
Among the images launched is one exhibiting Trump surrounded by six ladies, whose faces have been obscured, at what seems to be a Hawaiian-themed celebration: they’re sporting leis, the flower garlands typical of the archipelago. In one other, there are envelopes of condoms on the market for $4.50 bearing the face of the U.S. president and the slogan “I’m huuuge.”
In one other picture, Trump, then an actual property developer who was associates with the financier, is seen sitting with a blonde lady whose face has additionally been hidden. Another {photograph} reveals the present president at one other celebration speaking to a girl, with Epstein behind him.
The 19 pictures are a part of the almost 95,000 paperwork that the Oversight and Reform Committee has acquired from Epstein’s archives as a part of its investigation into the pedophile ring organized by the financier and his connections.
Another picture, bearing Bill Clinton’s signature in gold, reveals the previous Democratic president smiling and surrounded by Epstein, his fixer Ghislaine Maxwell, and one other couple. Another {photograph} reveals Epstein and Bill Gates sitting at a desk ingesting what seems to be espresso or tea, watched by a girl along with her face hidden.
Woody Allen is seen in three pictures: in a single, alongside Epstein, he seems to be working. In one other, he seems inside a non-public jet alongside Larry Summers, treasury secretary through the Clinton administration. In the third, he’s alongside the ultra-conservative ideologue Bannon.
“It is time to finish this White House cover-up and produce justice to the survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and his highly effective associates,” stated the highest-ranking Democrat on the committee, Congressman Robert Garcia, in an announcement. “These disturbing images elevate much more questions on Epstein and his relationships with among the strongest males on the planet. We won’t relaxation till the American individuals get the reality. The Department of Justice should launch all of the recordsdata, now.”
A regulation handed by Congress final month by an amazing majority — just one consultant voted towards it — and signed by Trump requires the Justice Department to launch, by December 19, the recordsdata of the late financier, who took his personal life in jail in 2019 whereas awaiting trial.
The U.S. president had a 15-year friendship with the millionaire pedophile, which lasted till round 2004, after they stopped seeing one another. The first little one abuse case towards the financier was introduced in 2006.
There isn’t any proof implicating Trump in Epstein’s crimes, however the shadow of these excesses has haunted him for the reason that pedophile’s suicide. Last May, that shadow grew darker when Attorney General Pam Bondi notified him that his title appeared “in all places” in these paperwork.
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