Top Senate Dems Demand Trump's Chief of Staff Explain How She 'Read the Epstein Files'
Source: MEDIAite
Dec 30th, 2025, 4:24 pm
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), the ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) sent Trump Chief of Staff Susie Wiles a letter on Tuesday asking her to explain how she knew certain details of Trump’s relationship with convicted sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein.
Wiles made several eyebrow-raising comments to Vanity Fair in an explosive profile earlier in the month, including verifying that Trump was on Epstein’s plane – something Trump had denied in the recent past.
“In a recent Vanity Fair profile, you said you have read ‘the Epstein file’ and that President Trump ‘is in the file’; ‘was on [Epstein’s] plane’; and is ‘on the manifest.’ Please be kind enough to explain when and where and under what authority you gained access to this material, as requested below. It would be good to have your responses to the following questions by January 5, 2026,” the senators wrote to Wiles, adding some specific questions:
1. What were the materials in “the Epstein file” you referred to in your Vanity Fair interview?
2. Had material in the file you reviewed been presented to a grand jury?
3. When did you first gain access to “the Epstein file” and what was the schedule of your review of it?
4. For what purpose did you gain access to this information?
5. Did you share with President Trump any information contained in the file you reviewed?
6. Please describe your role in any process related to the review, redaction, withholding, or release of material in the “Epstein file,” including any processes involving the Department of Justice or Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/politics/top-senate-dems-demand-trumps-chief-of-staff-explain-how-she-read-the-epstein-files/
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Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse & Sen. Dick Durbin write letter to White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, asking how she's "read the Epstein files"
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11:24 AM · Dec 30, 2025
