A spokesperson for The New York Times told WIRED in a statement that Brooks “regularly attends events to speak with famous and important business leaders to inform his columns” and that Brooks had no contact with Epstein before or after attending the 2011 dinner where the photo was taken.
A representative for the Gates Foundation did not immediately respond to a request for comment, nor did representatives for Google, Allen, Chomsky and Bannon. war Room podcast.
The release also includes close-ups of women’s body parts accompanied by quotes from Vladimir Nabokov’s book Lolita They contained an image of a pill bottle labeled with a medicine commonly used to relieve the symptoms of urinary tract infections, and doctored images of travel documents from several countries, including Ukraine and Lithuania.
The House committee investigation into Epstein has been ongoing for several months and is separate from the document dump being released by the US Justice Department this week. The Epstein Files Transparency Act, which was signed into law last month, requires the DOJ to release “all declassified records, documents, communications and investigative materials” in its possession by December 19.
As part of the investigation, the committee subpoenaed the Epstein estate and included instructions for the estate to prepare two separate sets of documents—one for the Democrats on the committee, the other for the Republicans. As the committee has been receiving documents from the estate, both the Democrats and the committee as a whole have released their own. The content of these releases have raised new questions about the well-documented relationship between Epstein and President Donald Trump; Among other things, it shows Epstein claiming to have intimate knowledge of Trump’s views in a conversation with a Gates adviser.
Documents related to the Epstein investigation have dominated the first year of the second Trump administration, with many members of it making the release of the documents a central talking point in the lead up to the 2024 presidential election. The political dynamic has changed in the past year, as it became clear that Trump, who was once a friend of Epstein, appears repeatedly in investigative records.
“As we approach the Epstein Files Transparency Act deadline, these new images raise even more questions about what exactly is in the Justice Department’s possession,” Representative Robert Garcia, the ranking Democratic member of the committee, said in a press release. “We must end this White House cover-up, and the DOJ must release the Epstein files now.”
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