Overview
- Investigations by NPR and the New York Times report roughly 50 pages referencing President Donald Trump are absent from the Justice Department’s posted Epstein files, including multiple FBI interview memoranda.
- The DOJ says no documents were deleted and that some files were temporarily withdrawn to remove victims’ names before being reposted, a position that clashes with journalists’ metadata analyses.
- FBI records described by reporters include one woman interviewed several times from 2019 to 2021 who alleged abuse as a minor and another who said Epstein took her to Mar-a-Lago to meet Trump, with at least one interview later reissued online.
- Hillary Clinton’s deposition before House Oversight was briefly halted after a leaked image, as she denied ever meeting Epstein and urged the committee to probe the missing records tied to accusations against Trump; Bill Clinton is scheduled to testify next.
- Repercussions spread beyond Washington with the World Economic Forum’s CEO Børge Brende resigning, Harvard’s Larry Summers announcing his departure, Columbia’s Richard Axel stepping down, Bill Gates apologizing to his staff, and the Financial Times detailing about $875,000 in Epstein-linked payments from 2013 to 2019.