House Democrats Vow to Make Epstein a Top Priority If They Win Back the House, Report Says
House Democrats are vowing to make Jeffrey Epstein a top priority if they win back the House next week, per Forbes.
The pledge came alongside a new report that puts the Epstein files back at the center of the campaign's final stretch.
Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee released the 50-page report on Monday, eight days before the midterm elections.
Inside the report
The report details allegations from 11 women suggesting President Trump had some involvement in Epstein's alleged abuse.
Five of the women directly accuse Trump of rape or sexual assault in Epstein's company or presence, according to the committee's summary.
Only one of the allegations in the report had not been made public before.
That new account comes from Beatrice Keul, a Swiss former pageant contestant, who told committee staff Trump raped her in a Plaza Hotel suite during his 1993 American Dream pageant.
The White House says none of the allegations are true and has called the report politically motivated.
A call for a special counsel
The report calls on the Justice Department to appoint an independent special counsel.
Democrats want the special counsel to investigate Epstein's possible co-conspirators, and the Justice Department's own handling of the files.
The report concludes that Trump and Paolo Zampolli, who until recently served as a senior Trump administration official, may have been co-conspirators in Epstein's conspiracy to traffic and abuse young women in the 1990s.
With one exception, each alleged assault or instance of misconduct in the accounts occurred between 1992 and 1997, in New York and Palm Beach.
Many of the women were closely tied to the modeling industry and to Zampolli, per the report.
The cover-up claim
A large section of the report targets the Justice Department itself.
"Evidence involving 11 women tells a completely different and far more damning story about their relationship," Ranking Member Jamie Raskin said in the committee's release.
The report says Attorney General Todd Blanche, Trump's former personal defense attorney, steered Ghislaine Maxwell away from discussing a survivor on at least three separate occasions during his 2025 interview with her.
At one point, according to the report, Blanche told Maxwell, "Let's not talk about individuals."
Democrats argue the Justice Department has shut down investigations and deliberately withheld evidence the law requires it to release.
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What it means for markets
Election outcomes drive policy risk, and a flipped House would put investigations, subpoenas, and oversight hearings at the top of the agenda in January.
That matters for sectors exposed to Washington: defense, healthcare, energy, and the big banks all trade on regulatory and legislative risk that shifts with control of Congress.
Prediction-market and event-driven traders will be watching the final week of polling closely, and index volatility into the midterms is worth tracking through SPY and QQQ options flow.
A drawn-out fight over the Epstein files would also keep headline risk elevated for any publicly traded names pulled into the document releases.
The bottom line
Democrats have put the Epstein files at the center of their closing midterm argument.
If they take the House, the report released Monday reads like the opening brief for the investigations that follow.
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