On Friday morning, Democrats on the House Oversight Committee played politics, releasing 19 photos from the Epstein estate, including several featuring Donald Trump, long before he was President, pictured with various women.
Bill Clinton, the former Prince Andrew, Woody Allen, Bill Gates, ex-Trump adviser Steve Bannon and billionaire Richard Branson were also featured in the photos selected for release, but as the Democrats probably expected, the media focus was on Trump, and on Friday evening’s edition of CNN’s The Source, host Kaitlan Collins didn’t disappoint them.
In two of the photos, the women posing with Trump had their faces redacted, including six in one photo. A third one showing Trump with Belgian model Ingrid Seynhaeve in 1997 had previously been published. There was also a picture of Trump on what looks like the wrapper of a condom that says, “I’m HUUUUGE.”
The photos prove absolutely nothing, as even Collins acknowledged early on: “None of the men that you’re about to see are accused of wrongdoing. That’s important to note, but Democrats on the House Oversight Committee have released these pictures from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate, citing the need for transparency.”
That may be their stated reason, but it doesn’t force Collins or anyone else to give the photos the same gravitas and coverage, they would deserve had they revealed something, anything at all.
Collins brought on the Ranking Member on the House Committee, California Democrat Robert Garcia who did not directly answer the key question.
COLLINS: One thing that the Republicans on your committee have accused you of, and the White House as well is cherry-picking certain pictures, they say, to form a narrative here. How did you decide which pictures in the 95,000 that you now have access to, how did you decide which ones to release today?
GARCIA: I think it’s interesting that Republicans like to make these arguments, when they have yet to call on President Trump, in a strong way, to release all the files. They wanted to conceal the files. They wanted to oppose our subpoena. They tried everything they could to stop our vote in the Congress to actually get the files released.
Collins should have interrupted at that point and remind viewers that the House voted 427-1 to release all Epstein files and President Trump signed that bill on November 19, 2025. Instead he was allowed to continue.
GARCIA: Our goal is to get everything that we can release out to the public. And some of what was sent to us in this documentation is also quite disturbing…
COLLINS: When you say it’s disturbing, can you explain why?
GARCIA: What I can say is Jeffrey Epstein was clearly a sick person, a horrible sex trafficker. And so was Ghislaine Maxwell. Like I said earlier, the photos are disturbing… And our hope is to be able to get the information about what is included in the hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of photos that have been released by the Epstein estate, some very disturbing of women and their conditions..
COLLINS: Well, I mean, wow. I mean, it sounds like you’re saying there’s potentially images of women being assaulted or in sexual acts.
GARCIA: I think what I would say is that there are very disturbing photos…
Like the released photos, an answer designed to make viewers think the worst, and link it all to the biggest name in the photos, Donald Trump. A point that wasn’t lost on CNN commentator Scott Jennings.
JENNINGS: Look, here’s what I think. Robert Garcia and the Democrats on Oversight, don’t care about justice. They don’t care about victims. They don’t care about anything except one thing. They care about making the American public think that Donald Trump had something to do with this…. They should be patient. If they cared about victims, and they cared about a narrative of justice, and they cared about that part of it, they would be patient, they would be measured.
But what did they do today? They released photos that are cherry- picked, by the way, and they throw in an already publicly-released photo of Donald Trump. They blur out the pictures of the women to make you think that these women were underage sex victims. When, in fact, they were very adult. They were at an event. It’s already a publicly released photo. And one of the women said, on the record, oh, Donald Trump was gentlemanly.
So, what the Democrats are doing here is they’re taking a very serious story, in which real people got hurt, by powerful people, all for the purpose of trying to smear Donald Trump. That’s what this has always been about.
They didn’t care about it until now. And what they’re doing with these photos is nothing short of outrageous. This is not a story about Trump and Epstein…This is a story about Epstein. But they want it to be about Trump…and honestly, it is crazy…
Crazy indeed, and at this point, a non-story with Donald Trump as its fictional main character.
