House Judiciary Committee Democrats released a sweeping staff report on Monday accusing Donald Trump of taking part in Jeffrey Epstein's abuse of young women in the 1990s and accusing his Justice Department of covering it up, and they demanded an independent special counsel to investigate Epstein's co-conspirators and the department's handling of the files.
The White House rejected the report outright. "None of these allegations are true," spokeswoman Lauren Bis said. "This 'report' is nothing more than a desperate attempt by crazed Democrats to distract Americans from the surging Republican momentum driven by President Trump's historic achievements. The President kicked Jeffrey Epstein out of his club at Mar-a-Lago because he was a creep, and he has been fully exonerated of anything related to Epstein."
The roughly 50-page report, released by Rep. Jamie Raskin, the committee's top Democrat, is titled "'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." It is drawn from interviews conducted by committee staff, survivor accounts, FBI records and documents released under the Epstein Files Transparency Act. These are the Democrats' claims, presented in their own report; they are not findings of a court, and Trump has denied wrongdoing in connection with Epstein for years.
The report details accounts involving 11 women, five of whom, the Democrats say, directly accuse Trump of rape or sexual assault in Epstein's close company or presence. Others describe what the report presents as attempts by Epstein or Ghislaine Maxwell to traffic them to Trump. With one exception, the alleged assaults and misconduct took place between 1992 and 1997, in New York and Palm Beach, and many of the women were tied to the modeling industry and to modeling agent Paolo Zampolli, who until recently served as a senior Trump administration official and diplomat. Based on that material, the report concludes that Trump and Zampolli "may have been co-conspirators" in Epstein's conspiracy to traffic and abuse young women in the 1990s.
Among the accounts is a new one from Beatrice Keul, a Swiss former beauty pageant contestant who told committee staff that Trump raped her in a Plaza Hotel suite during his November 1993 American Dream Pageant, after he promised that Zampolli would arrange her visa and Trump would arrange her admission to New York University, and after Epstein approached her and introduced himself as "Don's best friend." Keul had spoken publicly about Trump before, describing an unwanted sexual advance in an October 2024 interview; the report says her account to the committee goes further and includes corroborating evidence from others who were at the pageant. The report also recounts Stacey Williams' account that Trump groped her in his Trump Tower office while Epstein stood beside them, Jill Harth's allegation in a 1997 lawsuit, an account from a woman identified as "Jane," who later testified against Maxwell and told the FBI Epstein introduced her to Trump at Mar-a-Lago when she was 14, and Maria Farmer's account that Trump approached her in a sexual and threatening manner in Epstein's New York office before Epstein intervened, telling him: "She's not here for you."
"The full extent of the President of the United States' involvement with a criminal sex trafficking ring is, inescapably, of the utmost concern to Congress and the American people."
A large part of the report is aimed at Attorney General Todd Blanche. The Democrats say that during Ghislaine Maxwell's two-day prison interview in July 2025, Blanche, who was then the deputy attorney general, prevented Maxwell from discussing Jane's account at least three times, at one point saying, "Let's not talk about individuals." The report says that conduct potentially constituted witness tampering and obstruction of an official proceeding under federal law. It also says the Justice Department and the FBI shut down investigations and withheld evidence while insisting there was no basis to investigate any additional Epstein co-conspirators, and that some of the information cutting against Trump's account of his relationship with Epstein sits hidden behind redactions in the public files, including a 2009 account recording Trump saying Epstein "was never asked to leave" Mar-a-Lago, the former Palm Beach police chief's statement to the FBI that Trump called him in 2006 and said of Epstein that "everyone has known he's been doing this," and flight records the report says show Trump traveled on Epstein's jet at least eight times in the 1990s.
The Justice Department did not respond to a request for comment on the report. Blanche has rejected the charge that his department withheld material that should have been released, saying it "undertook a Herculean task to review millions and millions of potentially responsive files" and met its production obligations "expeditiously." A federal judge in June found that the department had effectively conceded it was violating the Epstein Files Transparency Act by withholding unredacted and foreign-language documents, a ruling the department is appealing.
The report is a Democratic staff product, not a bipartisan committee report, and it lands eight days before the November 3 midterm elections. The House Oversight Committee, which has been running Congress's own Epstein investigation, did not work on it. If Democrats win back the House in January, Raskin would be in line to chair the Judiciary Committee, the panel that would lead any impeachment proceedings. The Democrats' demands are an independent special counsel to investigate and prosecute Epstein's co-conspirators, complete files for Congress as required by law, and full cooperation with the state and foreign prosecutors asking for evidence.
"The women who survived Epstein deserve to be heard, Congress must have the complete files required by law, and an independent special counsel must investigate Epstein's co-conspirators and DOJ's cover-up and ensure that state and foreign prosecutors have the evidence they need to pursue justice," Raskin said.