Trump news at a glance: More Epstein estate photos released as White House decries ‘Democrat hoax’

Trump is featured in three images, while others feature Epstein with Bill Clinton, Steve Bannon and Woody Allen - key US politics stories from 12 December 2025

House Democrats have published a new tranche of what they called disturbing" photographs from the estate of the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, featuring among others Donald Trump, Bill Clinton and the British former royal Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.

The 19 photographs in the initial drop - some of which have been seen before - plus another 70 released later Friday afternoon represent a small number of the almost 100,000 images released to the House oversight committee, which is looking into the conduct and connections of Epstein, the disgraced financier who died by apparent suicide in a New York jail cell in 2019 after he was charged with sex-trafficking offenses.