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House Committee on the Judiciary: Press release, description of investigation, key findings and link to full report
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ChunkMcHorkle lemmy.world ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world
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DOJ and FBI Shut Down Investigations and Withheld Evidence While Claiming No Basis to Prosecute or Even Investigate Any Additional Epstein Co-Conspirators

In Two-Day Interview, Attorney General Todd Blanche Instructed Maxwell Not to Discuss a Specific Survivor Whose Account Implicated Trump

Five Women Accuse Trump of Rape or Sexual Assault in Epstein’s Company or Presence; Others Describe Apparent Attempts by Epstein or Maxwell to Traffic Them to Trump

Committee Interviews, Survivor Accounts and FBI Records Trace Criminal Ties Among Trump, Epstein, Former Trump Envoy Paolo Zampolli and Known Pedophile John Casablancas in the Murky World of Beauty Pageants in 1990s New York

Judiciary Democrats Call for Independent Special Counsel to Investigate Epstein’s Co-Conspirators, Full Cooperation With State and Foreign Prosecutors Requesting Evidence, and Congressional Action to End DOJ’s Cover-Up

Washington, D.C. (October 26, 2026)—Today, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, released a sweeping new Committee staff report, “‘We Have Certain Things in Common, Jeffrey’: The Case Against Donald Trump Emerging in the Epstein Files and DOJ’s Desperate Efforts to Cover it Up,” detailing evidence involving 11 women, five of whom directly accuse Donald Trump of rape or sexual assault in Jeffrey Epstein’s close company or presence. The report concludes that, based on the available evidence and witness testimony, Trump and Paolo Zampolli—who until recently served as a senior Trump Administration official and diplomat—may have been co-conspirators in Jeffrey Epstein’s conspiracy to traffic and abuse young women in the 1990s.

Drawing on interviews conducted by Committee staff, survivor accounts, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) records and documents released under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, the report traces striking similarities in the stories of women abused by Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump. With one exception, each assault or instance of sexual misconduct occurred between 1992 and 1997, in New York and Palm Beach, and many of the victims were closely tied to the modeling industry and Zampolli.


The link to the actual report is at the bottom of the page:
https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/democrats-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2026-10.hjc-dems-staff-report-epstein-and-trump.pdf

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ChunkMcHorkle lemmy.world ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world
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There is already a post in this comm with the media coverage; this post links directly to the Committee's own press release and their own summary of the findings. I find it well worth reading in its own right.

King, if you find this to be duplicative feel free to take it down, but I'm posting it in the spirit of using this comm not just as a news forum but as a repository. I'll accept your judgement, whatever you decide.

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kingofras Moderator kingofras@lemmy.world
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There is already a post in this comm with the media coverage; this post links directly to the Committee's own press release and their own summary of the findings. I find it well worth reading in its own right. King, if you find this to be duplicative feel free to take it down, but I'm posting it in the spirit of using this comm not just as a news forum but as a repository. I'll accept your judg...

All good Chunk, it is good to have the direct link as well. Thanks for you contributions

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ChunkMcHorkle lemmy.world ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world
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All good Chunk, it is good to have the direct link as well. Thanks for you contributions

Thanks, King. I'm still trying to work through the report -- I have a very low tolerance reservoir for this specific content so I have to read a little and walk away, rinse and repeat, if I don't want to put a fist through a perfectly good monitor -- but I have noticed that the House report draws on unredacted EFTA files, filling them in via what the House Judiciary members saw personally in those highly-restricted DoJ visits to see the (somewhat) unredacted files.

So for you and anyone else reading the House report directly, if you see an EFTA file footnoted, look it up because the report is a glance behind the curtain of redactions.

And as such, this House report is also proof positive that at least some of the EFTA redactions are specifically meant to cover the perpetrators. See, for example, EFTA00158676, footnoted on pages 3 and 4: the public file has more blackout curtains than a movie theater, but the House report fills in significant context.

I have also been looking out for mainstream news coverage of the House report and there is next to none.

To check my hypothesis that it is being quietly downplayed by the Epstein class via their control of the media, I went looking for it on the New York Times (near the apex of billionaire media) and yesterday they ran a single "nothing to see here, not worth reading" article (archive link) hidden well off direct sight, describing it in the mildest possible terms and claiming the report "largely cites allegations that have already been public."

That's sort of true and sort of not, in a corporate weasel-word sort of way. My guess is that they are not reading it through and do not want anyone else to do so either. Especially Melania, because the report confirms that it was Epstein, and NOT Paolo Zampolli, that introduced her to Trump: ooops. All those heated denials and legal threats thwarted by Congressional reps they can't sue, lol.

The Guardian has done slightly better, running an excellent essay by Katie Phang, the journalist who has sued for access to specific files, but the sole reference to the report itself is a solitary link at the bottom of her piece. And beyond her opinion piece, there is nothing on the Guardian Epstein page about it at all. I expected better.

Thanks again for maintaining this comm as an open repository. Much appreciated.

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