Jeffrey Epstein Kept an ‘8×10 Framed Picture’ of Donald Trump on His Desk, Survivor Claims: Trump Was ‘His Biggest Brag’

Several of Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged victims spoke publicly on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, Sept. 3, urging Congress to release more evidence about the billionaire predator.

Although some of the Justice Department’s Epstein files were released the day before, Republican Rep. Thomas Massie and Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna hosted a bipartisan press conference to call for full government transparency, including regarding President Donald Trump’s history with Epstein.

Rep. Robert Garcia, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, told Daily Mail at the press conference that despite the release of 33,295 pages of Epstein files on Tuesday, the Trump administration still has many documents that haven’t been made public. These could contain important details about the president’s connections to Epstein.

“All information that’s been released so far, we already had… It’s our understanding there’s information at the CIA and possibly the FBI,” Garcia said. “I want to see where in the files is the president’s name, and how is it more broadly attached to what’s going on here?”

Trump has tried to distance himself from his past with Epstein in recent years. He and members of his administration have repeatedly promised the declassification and release of the Epstein files, even during the 2024 campaign.

It has been a difficult claim to support, as Trump famously called Epstein a “terrific guy” in a 2002 interview with New York magazine, adding, “It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”

One survivor who spoke on Wednesday highlighted the pair’s apparent close connection.

Chauntae Davies, a former actress, said she was introduced to Epstein by Ghislaine Maxwell, who promised to help her career. She claims this was the start of long-term abuse, including trips to Epstein’s infamous island.

At one point, she said she was “even taken on a trip to Africa with former President Bill Clinton and other notable figures.” Davies and Clinton were previously photographed together, though Clinton has said he knew nothing about Epstein’s crimes.

“Epstein surrounded himself with the most powerful leaders of our country and the world,” Davies said. “He bragged about his powerful friends, including our current president, Donald Trump. It was his biggest brag, actually.”

When asked to clarify, Davies said, “[Epstein’s] biggest brag, forever, was that he was very good friends with Donald Trump. He had an 8×10 framed picture of him on his desk, with the two of them. They were very close.”

During the press conference, Trump was meeting with Polish President Karol Nawrocki in the Oval Office. After the meeting, a reporter asked if “friends” or “donors” were being protected by not releasing the full Epstein files. He dismissed the question, calling the documents a “Democrat hoax that never ends.”

“They’re trying to get people to talk about something that’s totally irrelevant to the success we’ve had as a nation since I’ve been president,” Trump said. “It reminds me a little of the Kennedy situation, we gave them everything, over and over again, more, more, more. And nobody’s ever satisfied.”

Davies is not the first to suggest that Trump and Epstein were closer than the president has claimed since Epstein’s conviction on child s** abuse charges.

In July, Jack O’Donnell, who ran the Atlantic City Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino for four years in the 1980s, spoke with CNN’s Erin Burnett about Trump’s friendship with Epstein.

“In my mind, [Epstein] was his best friend, you know, [throughout] the time I was there for four years,” O’Donnell said. He added that Trump and Epstein “frequently” came to the casino together.

One incident stood out. O’Donnell said that one night in the late 1980s, Trump and Epstein visited Trump Plaza with three women under the legal gambling age of 21 and brought them onto the casino floor.

O’Donnell said state casino inspectors gave Trump a “break” for the incident but warned him about potential consequences. “I had to call them and say, ‘They’re giving you a break this time, but if this happens again, the fine is going to be substantial and it’s going to be on your head,’ ” he said.

O’Donnell also told Trump that continuing to associate with Epstein and underage women was “not gonna look good.”

“I did tell him in that conversation, ‘I don’t think you should be hanging out with this guy, just so you know, and you certainly shouldn’t be doing that in Atlantic City,’ ” he said.

When asked about O’Donnell’s CNN interview, the White House denied his claims.

“Jack O’Donnell is a stone cold loser who is a liar and fraud,” White House communications director Steven Cheung said in a statement. “This is completely fabricated story from his warped imagination as he suffers from Trump Derangement Syndrome that has rotted his pea-sized brain.”