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'There is a big appetite': Lawmakers tease plan to release more Epstein estate documents

Lawmakers are planning to release more Epstein estate documents following a bombshell revelation Wednesday that President Donald Trump may have had knowledge of the abuse of Epstein survivor Virginia Giuffre, according to reports.

Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), Senior member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, toldCNN that lawmakers are reviewing the Epstein estate documents and planning to release more, saying "there is a big appetite" to bring this information forward.

"I thought the 2011 emails kind of give a glimpse of what Epstein thought of Trump... he thought Trump had some connection to ‘his girls’ as he described them… it raises the notion that we should get these Epstein files. This set of documents that one way or the other we’re going to see these files," Krishnamoorthi said.

The redacted name was confirmed independently as Virginia Giuffre.

"GOP members of the House Oversight committee identified the person redacted by Democrats as Virginia Giuffre, one of Epstein’s most prominent survivors who died by suicide in April, and accused Democrats of hiding her name because she had not alleged Trump to have done anything wrong," CNN Chief White House Correspondent Kaitlin Collins reported.

The emails from Epstein to Maxwell and author Michael Wolff were released Wednesday morning by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee and appear to place the president closer to his alleged sex crimes than previously disclosed, reported CNN.

“i want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is trump.. (a redacted victim's name) spent hours at my house with him ,, he has never once been mentioned. police chief. etc. im 75 % there," Epstein wrote to Maxwell in a message dated April 2, 2011.

The House will return to session for the first time in 54 days on Wednesday. Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is expected to swear in Rep. Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ), who was elected more than 40 days ago, and has vowed she will sign the “discharge petition.”

House Democrats are expected to have enough votes to force Republicans to vote to push the Justice Department to release all of the Jeffrey Epstein investigation files.

Epstein victims attack Trump admin in court: 'I am not some pawn'

Two victims of sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein attacked President Donald Trump's administration in letters to the court where grand jury testimony in the case remains sealed, according to CNN.

The victims, who remained anonymous, both filed letters with the court Monday, "condemning the Justice Department’s request to unseal grand jury testimony" and citing a lack of respect toward them by Trump and the DOJ.

“Dear United States, I wish you would have handled and would handle the whole ‘Epstein Files’ with more respect towards and for the victims," one woman wrote. "I am not some pawn in your political warfare. What you have done and continue to do is eating at me day after day as you help to perpetuate this story indefinitely."

The other victim accused the administration of only caring about the “wealthy men” involved in the case.

“(I) feel like the DOJ’s and FBI’s priority is protecting the 'third-party', the wealthy men by focusing on scrubbing their names off the files of which the victims, 'know who they are,’'” she wrote.

One letter continued, “I appreciate your time reading my short thoughts and feeling and my anxiety and frustration is NOT aimed at you, obviously. It is aimed at the very government here, the ones asking to release these transcripts, exhibits, etc., of which the victims are not privy to while they have concluded that there is nothing more to see on the files they hold. Yet no one has seen them, but them," adding, "I am beside myself.”

Neither letter openly requested that federal Judge Richard Berman keep the transcripts sealed, CNN reported. However, both "strongly" urged him "to take all necessary precautions in concealing victims’ identities," the report said.

Donald Trump was informed in May that his name appeared in the files the DOJ has on the disgraced Epstein, who committed suicide in his Manhattan jail cell in 2019.

Read the CNN report here.

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'There is a big appetite': Lawmakers tease plan to release more Epstein estate documents

Epstein victims attack Trump admin in court: 'I am not some pawn'