(Washington) Democratic elected officials in the US Congress published new images linked to Jeffrey Epstein on Thursday, on the eve of the deadline for the publication by Donald Trump’s government of documents in its possession on the sex criminal who died in prison.
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The 68 new images come from the 95,000 that elected officials said last week they had received from Jeffrey Epstein’s legatees.
Their publication aims to put pressure on the government of Donald Trump, which must disclose by Friday at the latest the documents in its possession on the New York financier, who died in prison in 2019 before his trial for sex crimes.
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Billionaire Bill Gates posing with a woman whose face has been obscured.
“It is time for the Department of Justice to publish the file,” say the elected Democrats, members of a powerful committee in the House of Representatives, in a message on X.
Donald Trump had promised during his victorious 2024 campaign shattering revelations on the “Epstein file”, but the Republican president has been urging his supporters for several months to turn the page, calling the affair a “hoax” hyped up by the Democratic opposition.
After having opposed it for a long time, he had to resolve in November to promulgate a law which forces his government to make public all the documents in this affair.
The death of Jeffrey Epstein, found hanged in his cell in New York on August 10, 2019, has fueled countless conspiracy theories that he was murdered to cover up a scandal involving high-profile figures.
Some of the photos published Thursday show him in an office with Steve Bannon, former adviser to Donald Trump, but also on board what looks like a private jet with left-wing intellectual Noam Chomsky, or even posing with director Woody Allen, wrapped in a thick coat.
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Jeffrey Epstein (right) speaking to US political strategist Steve Bannon.
Other images show passports and identity cards of Ukrainian, Russian and even South African women with names and identity photos crossed out in black.
The existence of links between these people and the financier was already known. And none of the photos released since last week appeared to depict criminal behavior.
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Jeffrey Epstein appears in the company of women whose identities have been concealed.
Last week, elected Democrats had already published numerous images, including Donald Trump and former President Bill Clinton, as well as the former British prince Andrew. Steve Bannon and Woody Allen were also already there, as were Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, and Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin group.
Donald Trump, once close to Jeffrey Epstein in the 1990s, has always denied having any knowledge of his criminal behavior and claims to have fallen out with him in the early 2000s, well before he was worried by the courts.
