On December 12, 2025, a former federal prosecutor’s voice thundered across CNN during The Lead with Jake Tapper, branding the Trump administration “caught red-handed” in a desperate scramble after House Democrats unleashed a new batch of Epstein estate photos. The prosecutor, Elie Honig, a former SDNY assistant U.S. attorney, reacted to the Oversight Committee’s release of images showing President Donald Trump grinning with redacted young women, alongside snapshots of Bill Clinton, Steve Bannon, Bill Gates, Woody Allen, and former Prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor in Epstein’s orbit.
Honig, his tone sharp with disbelief, said the administration’s dismissal as a “hoax” rang hollow: “They’re caught red-handed trying to bury this. The photos aren’t new crimes, but they’re a gut punch reminder of proximity to a predator—and the scramble to downplay it reeks of damage control.” He accused officials of “gaslighting” by claiming Trump did more for victims, noting the president’s initial opposition to the Epstein Files Transparency Act before signing it under pressure.
The photos, from a 95,000-image cache, include Trump in Hawaiian leis with blurred women, Epstein naked in a bathtub, a dental chair ringed by male masks, and sex toys beside a Trump caricature condom. No wrongdoing is alleged, but Democrats called them “disturbing,” while Republicans decried “cherry-picked smears.” Trump shrugged it off: “That’s no big deal.”
Honig’s outrage, amid Virginia Giuffre’s Nobody’s Girl (October 21, 2025) exposing elite complicity, resonated: “This isn’t politics—it’s power protecting power.” With December 19’s disclosure deadline looming, his words amplified demands for unredacted truth.
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