Jeffrey Epstein Kept an '8×10 Framed Picture' of Donald Trump on His Desk, Survivor Claims: Trump Was 'His Biggest Brag' By Meredith Kile 37

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

While some of the Justice Department’s Epstein files were released the day prior, Republican Rep. Thomas Massie and Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna hosted the bipartisan press conference to call for full government transparency, including in regard to 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 plenty more that haven’t been released, which could include crucial 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 on the 2024 campaign trail.

It’s been a difficult sell, 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 of the survivors who spoke on Wednesday brought up the pair’s apparently strong connection.

Chauntae Davies, a former actress, said she was introduced to Epstein by Ghislaine Maxwell, with a promise to help her career. She claims that was the beginning of a long pattern of abuse, which included trips to Epstein’s now-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 maintained that he knew nothing about Epstein’s crimes.

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

Davies was later pressed by a reporter to elaborate on her comment that Epstein bragged about his friendship with Trump.

“[Epstein’s] biggest brag, forever, was that he was very good friends with Donald Trump,” reiterated Davies. “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. Following their meeting, a reporter asked the president if “friends” or “donors” were being protected by not releasing the full Epstein files. He brushed off the question, doubling back on a previous claim that the documents are 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,” the president 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.”

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Davies isn’t the first to allege that Trump and Epstein were much closer than the president has claimed in the years since Epstein’s conviction on child sex abuse charges.

In July, Jack O’Donnell, who oversaw the Atlantic City Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino for four years in the 1980s, spoke with CNN’s Erin Burnett about the president’s friendship with the late billionaire at the time.

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

One alleged instance stood out to the former casino boss. He claimed that one night in the late 1980s, Trump and Epstein visited Trump Plaza with three women and brought them onto the casino floor despite them being under 21, the legal gambling age in the state of New Jersey.

O’Donnell claimed the state casino commission inspectors gave Trump a “break” for the incident, but told him to warn the future president and his billionaire buddy about the 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 claimed.

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O’Donnell also claimed to have told Trump at the time that continuing to hang out 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 passionately denied his claims.

“Jack O’Donnell is a stone cold loser who is a liar and fraud,” White House communications director Steven Cheung told PEOPLE 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.”