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Democrats on the US House Judiciary Committee released a sweeping staff report on Monday detailing sexual-assault allegations against President Donald Trump linked to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, including a previously unreported allegation of rape dating to 1993. The White House has denied the claims, calling the report politically motivated.
The roughly 53-page report, released by Representative Jamie Raskin, the committee's ranking Democrat, examines accounts involving 11 women. Five of them directly accuse Trump of rape or sexual assault in Epstein's company or presence, according to the report, while others describe apparent attempts by Epstein or his longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell to direct them toward Trump.
A new allegation from 1993
The report's most prominent new allegation comes from Beatrice Keul, a former Miss Switzerland contestant, who told congressional staff that Trump raped her at New York's Plaza Hotel — which he owned at the time — in November 1993, when she was attending the American Dream Pageant. Keul said she met Trump and Epstein at a pageant luncheon, that Epstein introduced himself as Trump's best friend and invited her to a party at Mar-a-Lago, and that Trump later invited her upstairs, where she alleges he assaulted her, leaving her bleeding and bruised, and pressured her to stay silent.
Keul first spoke publicly in October 2024 about an alleged encounter in which she said Trump kissed and groped her; her account to congressional staff makes a more serious allegation with details not in her earlier public statements, according to reporting on the document.
What the report is — and is not
The document is an unsigned staff report written by committee Democratic staff, not a finding of the full committee, an indictment or a court ruling. It draws on survivor accounts, interviews conducted by committee staff, FBI records and documents released under the 2025 Epstein Files Transparency Act, and it examines alleged connections among Trump, Epstein and Paolo Zampolli, who until recently served as a senior Trump administration official and diplomat. The New York Times has noted that the report largely cites allegations that were already public, and the allegations it contains remain claims, not established facts.
The report also accuses the Justice Department and FBI of shutting down investigations into Epstein's associates and withholding evidence, and it calls for an independent special counsel — arguing that Attorney General Todd Blanche, who previously served as Trump's personal attorney, faces a conflict of interest. It says Blanche, in a two-day interview, instructed Maxwell not to discuss a specific survivor whose account implicated Trump.
White House response and election timing
The White House has rejected the report outright. A spokeswoman described it as a desperate attempt by "crazed Democrats" to distract from Republican momentum, said none of the allegations are true, and said Trump has been "fully exonerated of anything related to Epstein." Trump has long denied wrongdoing related to Epstein and has said he knew nothing about Epstein's crimes.
The report landed eight days before the November 3 midterm elections, in which Democrats are seeking to win control of the House — a prize that would give them subpoena power and the ability to pursue the investigations the report demands. Whether voters treat the document as a roadmap or as campaign-season politics is now part of the closing argument of the campaign itself.
Sources: House Judiciary Committee Democrats (report and press release); News18; Firstpost; WION; ANews; Law Commentary. Allegations are attributed to the report and its sources throughout; the White House denial is included above.