Sexual Assault & Trafficking - Epstein
1996
1996-01-01 Epstein had been accused of sexual assault dating back to 1996.
https://www.jamesmarshlaw.com/jeffrey-epstein-sex-trafficking/
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/us/epstein-fbi-complaint-1996-maria-farmer.html
2000
2000-01-01 This is the year Trump stated Epstein “stole” one of his spa workers. Virginia Giuffre would have been 16.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/eatJjtwMow8
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/29/jeffrey-epstein-ghislaine-maxwel-trump-murdoch.html
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/29/trump-epstein-spa-workers
2003
2003-01-01 This is the year the Epstein birthday book was compiled, including a letter from Trump of a naked woman’s outline, his signature mimicking pubic hair, and the following cryptic poem, “Voice Over – There must be more to live than having everything. Donald – Yes, there is, but I won’t tell you what it is. Jeffrey – Nor will I, since I also know what it is. Donald – We have certain things in common, Jeffrey. Jeffrey – Yes, we do, come to think of it. Donald – Enigmas never age, have you noticed that? Jeffrey – As a matter of fact, it was clear to me the last time I saw you. Donald – A pal is a wonderful thing. Happy Birthday – and may every day be another wonderful secret”.
https://time.com/7315609/epsteins-birthday-book-trump-clinton/
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/08/trump-epstein-birthday-book-oversight.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/us/politics/trump-epstein-birthday-book.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20vw2de8y0o
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/epstein-birthday-book-congress-9d79ab34
https://www.axios.com/2025/09/09/epstein-birthday-book-trump-reference-house-democrats
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/29/trump-epstein-spa-workers
2019
2019-07-09 Democratic leaders like Lois Frankel and Debbie Schultz demanded continued investigation into the Epstein case, particularly for the handling of the case, Epstein’s death, and the lenient 2008 plea deal from U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta (for context, Acosta was later the Trump administration Labor Secretary).
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4405
2019-09-10 Epstein died by suicide on this date during Trump’s first term. In 2026 new details were revealed about his alleged suicide including missing video footage and possibly someone entering his cell just before his death.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/epstein-files-jail-cell-death-video-logs/
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2y33q8l1qo
2022
2022-02-15 Prince Andrew settled a sex settlement case to Virginia Giuffre.
2024
2024-08-12 Trump used the Epstein “Lolita Express” to fly to campaign events.
https://x.com/MiamiHerald/status/1823099687538184446
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1514436049193330
2025 June
2025-06-18 Trump called the attention to the Epstein files a “Democrat hoax” and evaded questions.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgqnn4ngvdo
2025 July
2025-07-07 During a press conference Karoline Leavitt was asked about the Epstein Files. The press quoted a previous inquiry, “John Roberts of Fox News said, ‘DOJ may be releasing the list Jeffrey Epstein’s clients, will that really happen?” to which the Attorney General responded, “It’s sitting on my desk right now to review”. Karoline Leavitt referred the media to the DOJ for any further questions.
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/15/g-s1-77698/pam-bondi-jeffrey-epstein-justice-department
2025-07-12 Trump advised his Truth Social followers to quit asking about the Epstein files.
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114842356238631061
2025-07-15 Charlie Kirk called on the Trump administration to release the Epstein files, then advised he was done talking about the Epstein files.
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/15/trump-epstein-maga-charlie-kirk
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5400288-charlie-kirk-epstein-trump-administration/
2025-07-16 MAGA followers started posting MAGA hat burnings on social media in protest over the Epstein files.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/arts/television/jimmy-fallon-jeffrey-epstein.html
2025-07-17 The White House released a 2-page memo stating that the Epstein case was closed because there were no lists and that they “did not uncover evidence that would predicate charges against uncharged third parties”.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1407001/dl?inline
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/07/g-s1-76367/doj-jeffrey-epstein-memo
2025-07-28 Trump filed a $10B lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal for reporting on the Epstein files.
2025-07-29 Trump told the media he had a falling out with Epstein after Epstein “stole” a spa worker from him in 2000. Virginia Giuffre would have been 16 in 2000.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cyvn7ee3539o
2025 August
2025-08-01 Ghislane Maxwell was transferred to a much nicer, lower-security federal prison.
2025 08 01 virginia giuffre family statements - video.mp4
2025 September
2025-09-02 Epstein victims met privately with lawmakers on the 2nd, and had a press conference September 3rd.
2025-09-03 Trump supporters ousted Republican Thomas Massie for pushing to release the Epstein files.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/03/massie-gop-release-epstein-files-00541753
2025-09-04 Mike Johnson said during a press conference that Trump was an FBI informant on Epstein, and that Democrats have impure motives.
https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/09/08/trump-fbi-informant-mike-johnson/
2025-09-07 Mike Johnson walked back his former statement that Trump was an FBI informant.
2025-09-08 The House Oversight Committee released documents from the Epstein estate including the letter allegedly written by Trump. Trump told NBC it was a dead issue.
2025-09-09 Karoline Leavitt asserted during a press conference that the letter uncovered in the Epstein file was not Trump’s signature nor his letter.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgqnn4ngvdo
2025-09-10 UK Ambassador Peter Mandelson was fired after the UK learned of his ties to Epstein.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c77d1edvgn6o
2025-09-10 Republicans blocked Schumer’s effort to force the vote ordering full release of the Epstein files.
2025-09-17 An unverified and unsubstantiated video went viral, suggesting the DOJ will make heavy redactions to Republican names on the Epstein files .
2025-09-17 Kash Patel claimed he was barred by court order from releasing thousands of Epstein documents.
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/09/17/congress/kash-patel-epstein-files-hearing-00568547
2025-09-23 Someone installed a statue of Trump and Epstein holding hands in front of the National Mall; it was quickly dismantled. The statue had permits, but the Trump administration claimed they did not.
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/24/nx-s1-5552505/trump-epstein-statue-removed-national-mall
https://share.google/images/voJOxef0hFptrw83u
2025 November
2025-11-11 During a press conference Karoline Leavitt asserted that recent Epstein emails were a “manufactured hoax” by Democrats, that the emails only prove nothing other than the fact that President Trump “did nothing wrong”, and that the meeting Trump had with Lauren Boebert of Colorado only shows transparency, but she would not detail that conversation.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/12/politics/epstein-trump-emails-oversight-committee
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/12/trump-karoline-leavitt-jeffrey-epstein
2025-11-12 Due to Republican defiance, Adelita Grijalva was only finally sworn in seven weeks after she won a special election in Arizona. She would then become a key member set to vote to release the Epstein files.
https://grijalva.house.gov/media/press-releases/taking-the-oath-of-office
https://time.com/7333146/adelita-grijalva-johnson-house-swearing-in-epstein-government-shutdown/
2025-11-12 Uncovered Epstein emails showed mention of Russian involvement.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/12/jeffrey-epstein-donald-trump-russia-emails-00648919
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article312917423.html
2025-11-12 Trump’s name appeared over 1600 times in the new Epstein files that were released.
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/12/nx-s1-5605582/epstein-files-release-trump-email-grijalva-massie
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/epstein-files-name-trump-1-011136358.html
2025-11-13 Epstein emails showed that Trump knew about the victims. Some of the news outlets have emails available to view.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/us/politics/trump-epstein-emails.html
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/12/politics/epstein-trump-emails-oversight-committee
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jeffrey-epstein-donald-trump-emails-house-oversight/
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/read-jeffrey-epsteins-newly-released-emails-about-trump
2025-11-14 Megyn Kelley received backlash after she made comments that sounded to some like justification for child abuse. For context, she stated she had it on good authority that Epstein was not a pedophile, but rather, he liked 15 year old girls.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/14/business/video/megyn-kelly-questions-epstein-pedophile-digvid
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/megyn-kelly-concedes-latest-trump-191334636.html
https://www.imdb.com/fr/news/ni65574899/?ref_=nm_nwr_1
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tv/articles/john-oliver-unloads-megyn-kelly-051849515.html
2025-11-14 Trump asked the DOJ to open an investigation to tie prominent Democrats to the Epstein files.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/14/politics/trump-epstein-doj-investigate-enemies
2025-11-17 Trump called on Republicans to vote on the Epstein files.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgv653v1vjo
2025-11-18 During a press conference, Mike Johnson said the discharge petition for the Epstein files would put victims at risk and create new victims and said he talked to Senate leader Thune about amending the petition.
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/11/18/congress/johnson-thune-epstein-files-gop-00658475
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/18/mike-johnson-epstein-files-discharge-petition-vote
2025 December
2025-12-20 The DOJ released only part of the Epstein files, and what they did release was heavily redacted and incomplete. Some news outlets reported that some of the files that had included Trump quickly disappeared from the DOJ website. Since this date, the DOJ had repeatedly violated and ignored the Epstein Files Transparency Act by redacting, hiding, or “forgetting” to include documents that referred to Trump, and waited until March 2026 before releasing three pages related to a sexual assault allegation from a 13-year-old girl against Trump.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4405
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/epstein-files-redaction-over-500-pages-entirely-blacked-out/
2026 January
2026-01-13 Trump’s House Oversight Committee announced they would hold Clinton in contempt for not responding to a subpoena over the Epstein case. Up to this date, the Trump administration still had failed to release the Epstein files and had only released about 1%.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c79l38vl3lwo
2026 February
2026-02-03 During a press conference Trump told CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins she should smile more and called her the “worst reporter” while she was asking about the Epstein files.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-ugly-truth-behind-trump-ordering-kaitlan-collins-to-smile/
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/feb/04/jimmy-kimmel-trump-epstein-reporter
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/us/politics/kaitlan-collins-smile-trump.html
2026-02-09 Ghislaine Maxwell invoked the Fifth Amendment during a deposition. Some news outlets reported a statement from her attorney who said she is “prepared to speak fully and honestly if granted clemency by President Trump”.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgv5yre39zo
2026-02-13 “The Epstein Class War”. Rules do not apply to the super rich. They are insulated from consequences. https://prospect.org/2026/02/17/organized-money-epstein-files-ro-khanna/
https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2026/02/26/epstein-class-what-the-files-reveal-about-the-global-elite
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/09/politics/epstein-files-ossoff-clinton-trump-lutnick-analysis
2026-02-15 Despite heavily redacted files and pending files to release, Pam Bondi and the DOJ announced it would not be releasing more Epstein files.
https://deadline.com/2026/02/jeffrey-epstein-files-released-pam-bondi-1236725344/
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz7genjx9njo
2026-02-19 Trump said he was “totally exonerated” from Epstein. Meanwhile, the DOJ withheld documents naming Trump in an alleged sexual assault of a 13-year-old girl.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/us/politics/trump-epstein-files.html
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5757970-epstein-files-missing-interviews/
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/24/epstein-trump-doj-garcia.html
2026 March
2026-03-11 A new Trump-Epstein statue was erected, this time re-enacting the pose from the movie ‘Titanic’.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/us/politics/trump-epstein-statue-titanic-national-mall.html
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5779731-trump-epstein-titanic-statue/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/11/titanic-statue-trump-epstein-national-mall
2026-03-18 Pam Bondi and Todd Blanche attended a briefing at Capitol Hill to brief a committee on the Epstein investigation. It was the same committee that subpoenaed Bondi during a deposition. Democrat Summer Lee and Republican James Comer had a heated exchange. Another source reported past clashes between the two.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEU7POr7ar8&list=WL&index=6
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5676969-comer-lee-house-hearing-minnesota/