00:00Everybody knew this man, reporters President Trump at the White House after House Democrats
00:21released 19 new photos from Jeffrey Epstein's estate, including images of Trump alongside
00:26the disgraced financier. Trump shrugged off the revelations, saying he hadn't seen the
00:31pictures and insisting they meant nothing, because in his words, everybody knew this man.
00:37He was all over Palm Beach. Hundreds and hundreds of people have photos with him.
00:42The president added that he knows nothing about Epstein beyond casual encounters and
00:47framed the latest release as just more of the same.
00:51But the new photos show. The images, obtained from Epstein's estate and made public by
00:56Democrats on the House Oversight Committee, show Epstein mingling with a long list of
01:01powerful men. One photo features a younger Trump standing beside Epstein at what appears
01:07to be a social event, speaking to a blonde woman. Others show Bill Clinton posing with Epstein
01:13and Ghislaine Maxwell, and Bill Gates, Woody Allen, Richard Branson, and former British
01:19royal Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor in separate settings.
01:23Three images highlight Trump ally Steve Bannon, one sitting across from Epstein at a desk, another
01:28in a mirror selfie, and a third chatting with Epstein and Allen, suggesting repeated, if still
01:34unexplained, contact.
01:41Democrats stress that the photos alone do not prove crimes, but say they deepen questions
01:45about who moved in Epstein's circle and what they knew about his conduct. Committee members
01:49note that the 19 images come from a trove of nearly 100,000 pictures and videos seized
01:55from Epstein's properties, much of which remains unseen by the public. Democrats accuse. A cover-up
02:01representative Robert Garcia, the top Democrat on the Oversight Committee, accuses the Trump
02:07administration and Attorney General Pam Bondi of stonewalling Congress on the full Epstein files. Garcia
02:13says Trump officials campaigned on releasing everything connected to Epstein, but once in
02:17power, obstruct and hide stuff from the American people, instead of providing real transparency.
02:25He argues that survivors of Epstein's abuse deserve the whole truth and nothing but the truth,
02:31and vows to keep pushing until the Department of Justice complies with subpoenas and the new
02:35Epstein Files Transparency Act. A federal judge has already criticized the Justice Department
02:42for offering lip service while releasing only a fraction of the material and has ordered
02:47voluminous grand jury records tied to Ghislaine Maxwell's case to be turned over. Under the
02:53law passed this year, DOJ now faces a looming deadline to deliver extensive Epstein records
02:58to Congress, increasing pressure as more images trickle out and fuel public suspicion.
03:03Trump's defense and White House pushback. The White House dismisses the photo release as a partisan
03:14stunt designed to smear the president by association. Officials argue that Epstein sought out countless rich
03:21and famous people and that appearing in a photograph with him does not imply wrongdoing, especially since
03:27none of the released images show any criminal behavior. A spokesperson says Trump has
03:32done more for victims than anyone, pointing to his support for declassifying some records and backing
03:38the transparency law, even as Democrats accuse his administration of slow-rolling its implementation.
03:44Trump himself leans on the same message, telling reporters that Epstein had photos with everybody in Palm Beach,
03:51and insisting the new batch changes nothing about what the public already knows. So far he has not addressed
03:59specific shots that show his former strategist Steve Bannon in close conversation with Epstein inside the
04:04financier's offices. Images, questions, and the clock. For Epstein's survivors and their advocates, the photos are
04:13less important for who is smiling in them than for what they might reveal about how long powerful figures knew of
04:18Epstein's behavior and whether they helped enable it. With a congressional deadline days away and Democrats
04:25threatening further action if DOJ fails to deliver, Trump's effort to shrug off the pictures as no big
04:32deal may not be enough to stop demands for names, timelines, and answers that go far beyond a handful of
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