What Republicans have previously said about releasing files and photos linked to Epsteinpublished at 19:24 GMT
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As we’ve been reporting, Democrats on the House Oversight Committee have released several batches of photos out of 95,000 they have received from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate.
They say it’s to provide the public with “transparency into a representative sample and to “provide insights into Epstein’s network and his extremely disturbing activities”.
But Republicans on the committee have accused the Democrats of “cherry-picking photos and making targeted redactions to create a false narrative about President Trump”.
None of the latest photos include pictures of Trump, but last week’s drop did.
Trump was a friend of Epstein’s for years, but the president has said they fell out in about 2004, years before Epstein was first arrested.
Trump has consistently denied any wrongdoing in relation to Epstein – and there is no suggestion that appearing in the photos implies any wrongdoing,
In November, Trump signed into law a bill ordering the release of government files on Jeffrey Epstein, saying he was “all for it”.
But that marked a major reversal from his previous position where he dismissed calls to do so as a Democrat-led “hoax” to “deflect” attention away from his party’s agenda.
We’ve not heard anything from senior Republicans yet following this latest photo release.