{"id":324113,"date":"2025-12-19T05:54:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T05:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/324113\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T05:54:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T05:54:06","slug":"new-epstein-photos-from-house-democrats-show-high-profile-figures-island-plans-and-passports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/324113\/","title":{"rendered":"New Epstein photos from House Democrats show high-profile figures, island plans and passports"},"content":{"rendered":"

What Republicans have previously said about releasing files and photos linked to Epsteinpublished at 19:24 GMT 18 December<\/p>\n

19:24 GMT 18 December<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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”.<\/p>\n

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”.<\/p>\n

None of the latest photos include pictures of Trump, but last week’s drop did<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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. <\/p>\n

Trump has consistently denied any wrongdoing in relation to Epstein – and there is no suggestion that appearing in the photos implies any wrongdoing, <\/p>\n

In November, Trump signed into law a bill ordering the release of government files on Jeffrey Epstein, saying he was “all for it”.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

We’ve not heard anything from senior Republicans yet following this latest photo release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What Republicans have previously said about releasing files and photos linked to Epsteinpublished at 19:24 GMT 18 December…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-324113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}