Washington, D.C., 13 December (H.S.): Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released nearly 100 photographs from Jeffrey Epstein's estate on Friday, featuring prominent figures including Presidents Donald Trump and Bill Clinton, in two separate batches amid accusations of political theater.

The images, drawn from a trove exceeding 95,000 photos obtained from the estate, depict Epstein alongside personalities such as Steve Bannon, Woody Allen, Larry Summers, Alan Dershowitz, Richard Branson, Bill Gates, and Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, though not all show direct associations with the convicted sex offender.

A White House spokeswoman condemned the disclosures as cherry-picked photos with random redactions designed to fabricate a narrative against Trump, who appears in three previously circulated images from events like a 1997 Victoria's Secret party.

Trump dismissed the matter during an Oval Office bill signing, remarking that everybody knew this man in Palm Beach and insisting he knows nothing about it, reiterating their fallout in the early 2000s well before Epstein's arrests.The second batch included more intimate shots, such as Epstein in a bathtub, a swollen-lip selfie, rooms on his Little St. James island with a dentist's chair and masks, beachfront construction, and even a TRUMPKIN Halloween pumpkin caricature, alongside confirmed appearances like former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak on a phone call.

Lead Democrat Robert Garcia vowed continued transparency, describing some unreviewed images as incredibly disturbing and projecting weeks of processing, separate from the Justice Department's mandated Epstein files release by December 19.

Republicans decried the selective timing ahead of that deadline, while figures like Barak and Branson have long denied wrongdoing tied to Epstein, emphasizing that mere depiction implies no culpability.

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