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Durbin, White House Presses Susie Wiles On Her Access To The Epstein Files

White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles admitted in a Vanity Fair interview that she’d read the Epstein files, despite unclear authority.

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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) pressed White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles on her access to sensitive materials in the Epstein Files, as well as her role in the Department of Justice’s bungled, partial release of the files in violation of the December 19 deadline in the bipartisan Epstein Files Transparency Act.

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In a letter to Wiles, Durbin and Whitehouse wrote: “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.”

Whitehouse and Durbin requested answers to the following 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.

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