Trump, Clinton, Bannon Included in Release of Epstein Photos

House Democrats have released a tranche of new photos from the estate of the late Jeffrey Epstein that include President Donald Trump, former President Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, Steve Bannon and Larry Summers.
The photographs are undated, and show Trump before he became president. Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, King Charles III’s brother, is also pictured. 
Trump said later Friday that he had not seen the photos, while downplaying their significance. 
“Everybody knew this man. He was all over Palm Beach. He has photos with everybody,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “There are hundreds and hundreds of people that have photos with him. So that’s no big deal. I know nothing about it.”
Representatives for Clinton, Gates, Bannon and Summers did not immediately respond to requests for comment. 

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The 19 photos are among 95,000 the Department of Justice produced, Representative Robert Garcia said in an emailed statement Friday.
The production includes “images of the wealthy and powerful men who spent time with Jeffrey Epstein,” said Garcia, the senior Democrat on the House panel that has been investigating Epstein.

Garcia said the thousands of photographs also include photographs of women and Epstein properties and that they would continue to release pictures to the public.
House Democrats have continued to release files ahead of the Republican-led Oversight Committee as part of a mounting campaign for all records and files related to the Epstein investigation to be made public.

Trump had long assailed the effort to require the release of the files on Epstein — a convicted sex offender, who was facing federal charges of trafficking underage girls when he died in jail in 2019. 
Last month, he signed a bill, propelled through the House on a 427 to 1 vote, followed by a unanimous vote in the Senate, to compel the Justice Department to release the files by December 19.

Clinton has previously denied knowledge of Epstein’s crimes. Summers, a Harvard University professor, has said he regretted his relationship with the notorious financier and that he would step back from public commitments. That includes his role as a paid contributor to Bloomberg Television, a Bloomberg News spokesperson confirmed.

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