A House Oversight Committee member said he suspects President Donald Trump and MAGA strategist Steve Bannon must have known about late financier Jeffrey Epstein's abuse and trafficking of girls, according to a report Monday.
Rep. Suhas Subramanyam (D-VA) told TMZ how survivors have told lawmakers that Epstein proudly showed off images of his victims in his own homes, including one in the newly released batch of photos that showed a young girl passed out on a couch. That photo was framed and placed on Epstein's desk, something the convicted child abuser "wasn't shy about," the outlet reported. It was unclear when the photo of Bannon and Epstein was taken. Bannon was advising Epstein in 2018, years after Epstein's 2008 plea in Florida, which Subramanyam called "particularly egregious."
That makes it "hard for us to believe that people like Bannon and Trump didn't know, particularly Bannon," Subramanyam told TMZ.
"What we do know is that victims like Virginia [Giuffre] said repeatedly that he displayed and hung up photos of his victims and conquests," he said.
Subramanyam said that more images were still under investigation, and some were "pictures of people engaged in sexual acts."
Last week, the Epstein estate handed the photos over to the House Oversight Committee showing Epstein with other high-profile people — President Donald Trump, Bill Gates, former President Bill Clinton, filmmaker Woody Allen and MAGA strategist Steve Bannon — that were just 20 or so of the thousands of images the committee was investigating. Lawmakers have questions for many of the people in the photos, including the ones who have not been identified.
