Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX) said deceased child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein had “thousands of hours of tapes” that captured moments from his parties, bedrooms, and his private island.
Epstein is back in the news after the House Oversight Committee, on which Sessions serves, released thousands of emails to and from Epstein before he died in 2019 from suicide in a jail cell, according to authorities. In one exchange from 2011, Epstein said President Donald Trump, a friend of Epstein’s who was then a private citizen, “spent hours at my house” with a person whose name had been redacted and who Democrats on the committee instead labeled as “Victim.” Republicans on the committee cried foul, saying that the name was that of Virginia Giuffre, who said she never witnessed Trump do anything untoward. Giuffre died by suicide this year. In another email, Epstein states that Trump “knew about the girls.” Elsewhere, Epstein claimed he “gave” his ex-girlfriend to Trump.
The email dump comes as the House is set to vote on Tuesday on whether to demand the Department of Justice release its files regarding Epstein. Trump has resisted those calls. This summer, the president’s attorney general reportedly told him his name appears in the files.
Sessions appeared on CNN on Friday, where he told Pamela Brown that there is a mountain of potential evidence in the form of “tapes.”
“And I just want to be clear, when you mentioned tapes, can you be more precise on what you were referring to there?” she asked.
Sessions replied that there are “thousands of hours” of footage, which had been obtained by former U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta. In 2008, Acosta agreed to a widely criticized deal in which federal prosecutors agreed not to pursue charges against Epstein, who ultimately pleaded guilty to state charges of solicitation with a minor.
The Texas congressman said:
Well, there are thousands of hours of tapes. Each of these three areas, at least, on the islands and in Florida. Alex [Acosta] had, presumptively, hundreds of hours of tapes of bedrooms, of parties, of people who were there. And there was a lot of information that we have yet to actually see the evidence of.
According to a memo issued by the Department of Justice in July, a “large portion” of the records in its Epstein files include child pornography and “images and videos” of victims who seem to be minors.
In July, The Wall Street Journal reported that Trump sent Epstein a birthday card in 2003. The card contains a dialogue written within a doodle of a woman’s torso. It concluded, “Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret.” The president has denied sending the card and is suing the Journal for libel for $10 billion.
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